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1、EnglishforReligiousStudies:SecondSemesterENGLISHFORRELIGIOUSSTUDIESEdmundRydenSJSeptember2006–June2007Purpose:ToenablestudentstoconsultmaterialinEnglishinthefieldofreligiousstudies,withafocusonfourareas:comparativereligion,Buddhism,ChristianityandDaoism.Thecoursewillin
2、volvereadingkeytextsinEnglishfromthereligionsandalsoinreadingarticlesaboutthesaidreligions.TohelplearningtoreadtherewillalsobedemandsonwritingEnglish,howeverthecoursewillnotteachconversationorlistening.Assessment:Byfinalexamattheendofeachsemester.Studentswillalsobeexpe
3、ctedtoprepareeachweek’sreadingbeforeclassandwillbeexaminedontheirpreparation.Semester2:Daoism&Christianity126FebReviewofprevioussemesterexampapers25MarTranslatingtheDaoDeJing312MarVincentShen,“MetaphorandConceptinReligiousNarratives”419MarMichaelSaso,“TheChengHuang’sBi
4、rthday”526MarChowWai-yin,“ReligiousNarrativeandRitualinaMetropolis”62AprBenoitVermander,“TheUnfoldingNarrativeofLiangshanYiReligion”79AprChienHong-mo,“Taiwan’sIndigenousPeople”816AprTranslatingtheBible923AprChristianCreeds,Dogmasandterminology1030AprTheConfessionsofStA
5、ugustine117MayVaticanII:TheChurchintheModernWorld1214MayC.S.Lewis,“IsChristianityHardorEasy?”1321MayDesmondTutu,“NoFutureWithoutForgiveness”1428MayThomasMerton154JuneMysteryTopicExam11June55EnglishforReligiousStudies:SecondSemesterTranslatingtheDaoDeJing1道可道，非恆道也。名可名，非
6、恆名也。無名、天地之始也，有名、萬物之母也，故恆無欲，以觀其妙。恆有欲，以觀其徼。此兩者同出而異名。同謂「之玄」。玄之又玄，眾妙之門。ArthurWaleyTheWayanditsPower,NewYork:GrovePress,1958,p.141.TheWaythatcanbetoldofisnotanUnvaryingWay;Thenamesthatcanbenamedarenotunvaryingnames.ItwasfromtheNamelessthatHeavenandEarthsprang;Thenamedisbutt
7、hemotherthatrearsthetenthousandcreatures,eachafteritskind.Truly,‘OnlyhethatridshimselfforeverofdesirecanseetheSecretEssences’;HethathasneverridhimselfofdesirecanseeonlytheOutcomes.Thesetwothingsissuedfromthesamemould,butneverthelessaredifferentinname.This‘samemould’wec
8、anbutcalltheMystery,Orratherthe‘DarkerthananyMystery’,TheDoorwaywhenceissuedallsecretEssences.D.C.LauLao-Tzu:TaoTeChi
