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Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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Course Description

Overview

An award-winning professor takes you deep into the life stories and legacies of four iconic figures in world religion.

Syllabus

  • By This Professor
  • 01: A Quartet of Sages
  • 02: Confucius's China
  • 03: Becoming a Sage
  • 04: A Gentleman and a Scholar
  • 05: Heaven and Earth
  • 06: Doing unto Others
  • 07: How to Rule a Kingdom
  • 08: What a Sage Does
  • 09: Confucius and Confucianism
  • 10: India at the Time of the Buddha
  • 11: Siddhattha Gotama
  • 12: The First and Second Great Awakenings
  • 13: Knowing the World
  • 14: Can't Get No Satisfaction
  • 15: Getting to the Farther Shore
  • 16: How the Buddha Taught
  • 17: The Buddha and Buddhism
  • 18: The Jewish and Roman Worlds of Jesus
  • 19: The Son of Mary
  • 20: The First 30 Years
  • 21: The Kingdom of God
  • 22: Back to the Future
  • 23: Jesus's Christology
  • 24: The Last Days in Jerusalem
  • 25: How Jesus Became Christ
  • 26: Arabia in the Days of Ignorance
  • 27: The Trustworthy One
  • 28: I Am Only a Messenger
  • 29: Madinah
  • 30: There Is No God but al-Lah
  • 31: The Ethics of Islam
  • 32: The Greater Jihad
  • 33: The Conquest of Makkah
  • 34: Their Lives Compared
  • 35: Their Teachings Compared
  • 36: Their Enduring Significance

Taught by

Mark W. Muesse

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