Commence Orthodox Catholic Trololol Mode

[Not The Philosopher]

Soo...I happen to find myself in this Christian interfaith relations type class, which is not being taught at my college, but fulfills one of my degree requirements (my college isn't offering anything that would work this year, and I want to be done all my classes by April). Having sat through the first lecture and perused the syllabus, I can pretty much see that this class is gonna be flirting pretty hard with indifferentism and syncreticism.

 

So I have a feeling that I'm gonna wind up being That One Guy who basically disagrees with everything the prof says. Which is a role I've never really held for any extended period of time in a classroom setting. T'will be an interesting few weeks indeed.

[Nihil Obstat]

Time to order some Phatmass shirts? :|

[Not The Philosopher]

Alas, I am also now in "Poor/Cheap Grad Student" mode.

[PhuturePriest]

Don't you live in Canada? From what I hear, this kind of thing is commonplace in Canadian Catholic universities.

[Not The Philosopher]

Don't you live in Canada? From what I hear, this kind of thing is commonplace in Canadian Catholic universities.

 

I do indeed. My home college is overall pretty solid though.

[Ash Wednesday]

Do it with love and a smile. They hate that.  :3

[ChristinaTherese]

I managed to make a prof think I liked arguing once because he kept misrepresenting Catholicism and occasionally Orthodoxy (both that I know much about the latter).... Nope, I just don't want you to misrepresent my mother in my presence. It was... interesting. I hope you do better than I did.

[truthfinder]

I do indeed. My home college is overall pretty solid though.

Good luck.  I don't know what school your at or what you're studying, but I'm also a Canadian grad student navigating the religious waters.  My MA specifically dealt with aspects of syncretism.  Feel free to PM if you want someone to commiserate about the trenches.  

[veritasluxmea]

I love classes like that. A few years ago I had one political science teacher- looking back, he was amazing, though at the time I hated his class. He was demanding and constantly challenging and teasing us. His class usually started off as a lecture and by the end it was a critical thinking discussion group. I was a libertarian/minarchist with anarchist sympathies and well-grounded in classical liberalism.  Almost every class we were trying to run each other up a wall. There were a few other people who would also get into the discussion but I sat in the front row and had a loud mouth so it was often just between the two of us.

 

The difference in his class though is that he wasn't trying to get us to conform to his beliefs- he really did welcome and encourage people to challenge his statements and speak out. I still don't agree with him on everything, but the class was a real eye-opener- I haven't viewed politics, society, and the nation the same way since, and my beliefs have definitely changed (I think classical liberalism was responsible for the fall of western civilization in Europe and the Americas, and no, I didn't get that view from his class). So, classes where challenges irritate the teacher are terrible, classes where challenges energize and turn on the teacher can be amazing. 

[Basilisa Marie]

Idk, just don't make your fellow students hate you. :) You catch more flies with honey. 

 

But definitely make sure the Church is represented well. If anything you could be an ambassador for the kind of perspective that would otherwise be lacking in the class. :) 

[Anastasia13]

Interfaith relationships class?

[Not The Philosopher]

Good luck.  I don't know what school your at or what you're studying, but I'm also a Canadian grad student navigating the religious waters.  My MA specifically dealt with aspects of syncretism.  Feel free to PM if you want someone to commiserate about the trenches.  

 

I may take you up on that offer.

 

Idk, just don't make your fellow students hate you. :) You catch more flies with honey. 

 

But definitely make sure the Church is represented well. If anything you could be an ambassador for the kind of perspective that would otherwise be lacking in the class. :)

Hehe. By nature I am a shy and awkward person (and I still look like a teenager, to boot).  It took a long time to even build up the courage to speak in classrooms. Now I am pretty good at faking confidence, but I'm still too self-conscious to be much of a smart alec.

 

Interfaith relationships class?

 

Poor word choice on my part. "Interfaith dialogue class" is better.

[John Ryan]

I am a nightmare for religious professors in academia, because I am a Vatican II Catholic. I am not an exclusivist, so they cannot place me into the closed-minded camp. Neither am I an inclusivist who says that all paths lead up to the same mountaintop. There are real differences in our religious symbols. My faith is simply one that "rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions. She regards with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men" (Nostra Aetate).