Publication
Imprint: Chantilly, Virginia : Teaching Co., c2010. Series: "Course no. 6380." Responsibility: Lecturer: Professor Mark W. Muesse, Rhodes College. OCLC Number: 676837078. Physical: 6 videodiscs (18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 155 pages ; 19 cm). Features: Course guidebook includes lecture notes, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
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DVD / Front Desk
ISBN
9781598036756
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: Professor Muesse examines the four religious giants both separately and comparatively in an effort to grasp the essential features of their lives and to explore the factors that contributed to their greatness. He discusses the similarities and differences in their messages, in the patterns of their lives, and in the ways they impacted their followers and the rest of the world.
Content: A quartet of sages -- Confucius's China -- Becoming a sage -- A gentleman and a scholar -- Heaven and earth -- Doing unto others -- How to rule a kingdom -- What a sage does -- Confucius and Confucianism -- India at the time of Buddha -- Siddhattha Gotama -- The first and second great awakenings -- Knowing the world -- Can't get no satisfaction -- Getting to the farther shore -- How the Buddha taught -- The Buddha and Buddhism -- The Jewish and Roman worlds of Jesus -- The son of Mary -- The first 30 years -- The Kingdom of God -- Back to the future -- Jesus's christology -- The last days in Jerusalem -- How Jesus became Christ -- Arabia in the days of ignorance -- The trustworthy one -- "I am only a messenger" -- Madinah -- "There is no god but al-Lah" -- The ethics of Islam -- The greater Jihad -- The conquest of Makkah -- Their lives compared -- Their teachings compared -- Their enduring significance.
FY2017 / jvsn
Content: A quartet of sages -- Confucius's China -- Becoming a sage -- A gentleman and a scholar -- Heaven and earth -- Doing unto others -- How to rule a kingdom -- What a sage does -- Confucius and Confucianism -- India at the time of Buddha -- Siddhattha Gotama -- The first and second great awakenings -- Knowing the world -- Can't get no satisfaction -- Getting to the farther shore -- How the Buddha taught -- The Buddha and Buddhism -- The Jewish and Roman worlds of Jesus -- The son of Mary -- The first 30 years -- The Kingdom of God -- Back to the future -- Jesus's christology -- The last days in Jerusalem -- How Jesus became Christ -- Arabia in the days of ignorance -- The trustworthy one -- "I am only a messenger" -- Madinah -- "There is no god but al-Lah" -- The ethics of Islam -- The greater Jihad -- The conquest of Makkah -- Their lives compared -- Their teachings compared -- Their enduring significance.
FY2017 / jvsn
Physical description
18 hours, vi, 155 p.; 4.75 inches
Description
Professor Muesse examines the four religious giants both separately and comparatively in an effort to grasp the essential features of their lives and to explore the factors that contributed to their greatness. He discusses the similarities and differences in their messages, in the patterns of their lives, and in the ways they impacted their followers and the rest of the world.
Language
Original language
English
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