RELIGST 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Thesis Statement, The Dilemma, Pessimism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2HH3
• Professor: Stephen Westerholm

Document Summary

Get the product you deserve : underlying assumption that people think well of themselves, and if you tell them to get what they deserve but can"t afford, then they"ll do something stupid. Paul has a pessimistic anthropology: paul"s understanding of anthropology is regarded as pessimistic as compared to other. Why is paul so pessimistic? (why does he have a negative view on anthropology: it isn"t his nature to be pessimistic, prior to his damascus experience he was not pessimistic. As a believer in jesus, he is not pessimistic as well. Pessimism was learned while christian: judaism & christianity seem to have a positive view: ultimately optimistic (good will overcome evil eventually, if it were possible to be righteous by keeping the law, theres there was no reason for. If christ has to be cruci ed then the problem with the human nature was very serious since his death was the only solution.