Honors Humanistic Traditions I: Week 6

Fiero 8-9

Questions:

• What is faith?
• What is the relationship between faith and art?
• Are all faiths basically the same thing?
• Is there a historical Jesus, and (why) should it matter?
• Is there a historical Buddha, and (why) should it matter?

Christianity

• Ancient History Sourcebook: Christian Origins
• The Legacy of Christianity
  
  
• Early Influences on Christianity
  • Gnosticism
    • Gnosticism
    • Gnostics, Gnostic Gospels, and Gnosticism
    • Gnosticism: Ancient and Modern
    • Gnostic Archive
      
      
  • Mithraism
    • Mithraism (article, Catholic Encyclopedia)
    • Mithraism overview
    • Mithraic Traditions
    • The Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras
      
      
• Christian Belief and Practice
  • Sermon on the Mount
    
    
• Determining and Interpreting Canonical Texts
  • Qumran/Dead Sea Scrolls
    • Library of Congress Exhibition
  • Jesus Seminar
  • Early Christian Writings - pretty much all of them
  • Q Gospel
    
    
• Jesus as a Historical Figure
  • Historical Jesus resources
  • Historical Jesus theories
  • From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
  • Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries
    
    
• Early Medieval Art

Buddhism

• Introduction to Buddhism
• Noble Truths, Eightfold Path