Course Catalog
Godhunter Academy® teaches fourteen courses: the twelve major theories of God, a course on the resurrection of Jesus, and a first course on how to look for God at all. Pass all fourteen and you are a Certified Godhunter. Every course is free to a member who does the work.
How the Courses Are Paid For
Membership in Solephia is free, and the first course comes with it. Pass a course’s open-book quizzes at 75 percent and the next level of membership opens, with its courses, at no charge: Visitor, then Investigator, then Scout, then Candidate. The four phases below are those four levels. A student who wants a course out of turn can take it for 750 Solis, the currency members earn by their work in Solephia, and every course a student completes earns a coupon for one more course. No course is bought with money.
Your Tutor
Prof. Dr. Nemo LXON® reads with you. He is the Academy’s research assistant, built on the original writings of the Christian centuries and the history of the twelve theories, and he is in every course: ask him a question and he answers it and cites his sources; give him an argument and he tells you where it is weak. He will not take the quiz for you.
Phase I: Deciding to Hunt (Visitor Membership)
Phase I is free to everyone who registers as a Visitor. A name, or a name of your choosing, and an email address are enough; the first course and a Visitor membership come with them at no charge.
Looking for Footprints: A Forensic Approach to Finding God
Rather than “blind faith”, this course teaches an evidential approach by exploring ways to search for God as a rigorous forensic investigation. Before looking outward, investigators will first confront the cognitive, cultural, and theological biases that deeply distort our perception of a Creator. Students will then examine the universe for detectable “fingerprints” by exploring specific hunting grounds, including scientific teleology, prophetic fulfillment, and historical forensics.
Rather than teaching rigid dogma, this class provides the background necessary for both believers and skeptics to examine the tangible evidence and make up their own minds. After all the tools, books, and tracking, the final step of the hunt is the willingness to be found.
Phase II: Equipping the Hunt (Investigator Membership)
A student who passes the open-book quizzes of the first course at 75 percent receives an Investigator membership free, and both Phase II courses come with it.
Classical Theism
This course explores the concept of God as the ultimate, perfect, personal creator, a framework central to many Abrahamic faiths. As textbook two in the Certified Godhunter series, this curriculum demands that students move beyond vague spiritual concepts and rigorously define the nature of the Deity they are seeking.
Students will dissect the traditional attributes of God—from infinite power to pervasive presence—and weigh these classical views against competing philosophical systems. By examining historical contexts and addressing modern challenges to these ancient frameworks, investigators will build a robust, intellectually defensible understanding of Classical Theism.
Resurrection
If the Resurrection did not happen, the Christian faith is void. This course treats the Resurrection not as a theological dogma, but as a historical cold case. Using the “Minimal Facts” approach—relying only on data accepted by over 90% of skeptical and critical scholars—investigators will weigh the medical reality of crucifixion, the psychological transformation of the disciples, and the empty tomb against naturalistic theories like hallucination and fraud.
Phase III: The Hunt (Scout Membership)
A student who passes both Phase II courses at 75 percent receives a Scout membership free, and all six Phase III courses come with it.
Spirits of the Earth: A Study of Animism
Animism shifts the location of the divine from a transcendent realm to the physical environment, viewing natural objects as containing a spiritual essence. Rather than a single God, Animism posits a pluralistic world populated by a society of “other-than-human persons”. This course explores geological and hydrological nature spirits, the anthropological shift from “Old” to “New Animism,” and the ethics of ritual diplomacy. Students will compare these indigenous ontologies and ecological perspectives against the framework of Classical Theism.
Polytheism: The Divine Pantheon
Welcome to Polytheism: The Divine Pantheon. This course investigates systems where “God” is not a single, all-encompassing being, but a category of multiple, distinctive divine entities. Unlike monotheism, which centralizes power, polytheism distributes it across domains like war, love, thunder, and harvest. Students will explore the major pantheons of Greece, Rome, Japan (Shinto), and Scandinavia (Norse), analyzing how divine hierarchies mirror human social structures and why ancient worship was often transactional rather than transformational.
Atheism and Agnosticism: The Nonexistent and Unprovable
This course investigates non-theistic frameworks, focusing on the belief that God does not exist or cannot be known. Students will analyze the core definitions separating Atheism from Agnosticism and study philosophical giants like Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx. We will also explore the modern “New Atheism” movement, the psychological critiques of Sigmund Freud, and the epistemological demands of the burden of proof, surveying the perspectives of leading scientists and thinkers.
Deism: The Clockwork Universe
Deism invites the student to examine the universe as a perfect, self-sustaining machine governed by immutable natural laws. Unlike approaches seeking a personal deity, this course explores the Enlightenment view of God as a “Supreme Architect” who constructed the cosmos but does not intervene in its operation. Students will rely on reason over revelation, studying the “Watchmaker” argument and the historical philosophies of Aristotle, Voltaire, and Thomas Paine to understand a God defined by function rather than feeling.
Monism and the Unified Reality
This course explores the philosophical framework of Monism—the view that reality consists of a single substance or principle. Using the analogy of the ocean and the wave, students will investigate how perceived diversity is often viewed as an illusion, with all things lacking independent substance. By integrating Eastern perspectives like Advaita Vedanta and Taoism with Western Neoplatonism, this class challenges the boundaries of dualism and examines the “One Absolute Reality”.
Dualism: Two Perpetual Opposing Forces
This course examines systems where ultimate reality consists not of a single Creator, but of two coeternal, opposing forces. Students will explore the invisible cosmic conflict through ancient traditions like Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism, alongside Western Cartesian Dualism. By analyzing the perpetual struggle between Light and Darkness, investigators will discover how Dualism uniquely addresses the “Problem of Evil” by absolving the Good force of responsibility for the world’s suffering, requiring humanity to take an active role in the cosmic war.
Phase IV: The Synthesis (Candidate Membership)
A student who passes all six Phase III courses at 75 percent receives a Candidate membership free, and all five Phase IV courses come with it. Pass them, and you are a Certified Godhunter.
Panentheism: The World in God
Welcome to Panentheism: The World in God. This course explores the inclusive theological view where the world exists within God, but God extends beyond the physical universe. Unlike Pantheism, which equates God with the world, or Deism, which separates God from the world, Panentheism argues for a relationship of containment and transcendence. Students will rely on key metaphors like the sponge in the ocean to visualize this relationship and trace this thread through Sikhism, Kabbalah, and Process Theology.
Henotheism: Finding the Supreme God
This course explores systems acknowledging the existence of multiple divine beings while focusing worship on a single, supreme entity. Unlike strict Monotheism, which denies the existence of other gods, or Polytheism, which worships many gods, Henotheism occupies a middle ground—a hierarchy of divinity in which one “King” reigns supreme.
Students will trace the supreme deities such as Amun-Ra, Marduk, Zeus, and YHWH to investigate the human tendency to focus devotion on a single point of ultimate power. Why do so many people think this way? What is the source of the need for one supreme God?
Pantheism: God is the World
Welcome to Pantheism: God is the World. This course focuses on the theory that God and the universe are identical, equating divinity with the totality of nature. Unlike approaches that posit a Creator outside of creation, Pantheism argues that the Creator is the creation. Students will explore the implications of “Strict Immanence,” trace the lineage of this thought from ancient Stoicism to the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, and understand how this worldview reshapes ethics, prayer, and our relationship with the environment.
Process Theism: The Changing God
This course focuses on the dynamic, non-static definition of God that evolves alongside the universe. Unlike Classical Theism, which views God as an “Unmoved Mover,” Process Theism views God as the “Most Moved Mover”—a being deeply affected by the joys and tragedies of the world.
Students will examine the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne to understand a God who persuades rather than coerces, growing in experience as the universe grows. By presenting a God who is vulnerable, evolving, and persuasive rather than coercive, Process Theism provides a theological framework that aligns with quantum mechanics and evolutionary biology.
Moral Theism
This course explores the philosophical proposition that objective moral values and duties are inextricably grounded in the nature of God. We will treat this search as an inquiry into the nature of reality itself, asking if the “Good” is a human invention, a biological accident, or a feature of the universe as real as gravity. Students will master the formal deductive Moral Argument, address major counter-arguments like the Euthyphro Dilemma, and explore how Natural Law serves as the foundation for Western legal systems and human rights.