A Study of Christianity

Sign up for our online course in Israel & Palestine

What is this online course about?

This short Online Interest Course covers the history of the founding of Israel, the early wars in the region as well as the impact on Palestinians. This leads into a look at the modern Arab-Israeli conflict. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s longest-running and most controversial conflicts. At its heart, it is a conflict between two self-determination movements — the Jewish Zionist project and the Palestinian nationalist project — that lay claim to the same territory. From a nation born from the Holocaust to a people fighting for civil rights. In the modern era the relationship between Israel and Palestine is characterised as either an ‘Occupation’ or as a ‘Fight against terrorism’ with distrust and fear ruling on both sides.

Sign up for our online course studying Ancient Greek Religion

What is this online course about?

History shows that Greek religion was more a series of rituals than a code or moral behaviour as ritual and sacrifice were at its heart. Across the Greek empire, there was a strong belief among its people in fate. The Greeks tended to believe that there are no accidents: that the Gods were behind everything that happened in their lives. And like the Egyptians, the Greeks believed that consciousness resided in the heart, a view that would prevailed through the Middle Ages.

The Greeks had no word for religion. There was no distinction between the sacred and secular: What we now call religion was intertwined with daily life and the state. Greek religion often placed the ideals of beauty and heroics on a higher level than those for morality. The Gods were more often than not are seen as being that could enjoy and indulge themselves in things beyond the means of mortals rather than beings that guided humans and rewarded and punished them on the basis of their righteousness or sins.