Christian Worldview link

http://www.wheaton.edu/CACE/resources/discernment/SpiritualFormation.pdf

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Studies in Christian Worldview

Final Exam Review

In groups of 3 or 4 Review the following:

1. Review the introductory material on the 4 questions

The ‘tower of babel’

Values of Modernity according to Dewey

Watershed developments in the growth of secularism and modernity

2. The ‘Where are We?’ question

Key figures in the shift from Modernism to post modernism (Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche)

The three umpires

Platonic views of reality

Post modern concepts of reality: Jean Baudrillard and ‘Similacrum’

How do these views shape our concept of ‘Truth’

Review the concept of ‘Creational Reality’

Discuss the material on the stewardship of creation: accusations against Christians for environmental abuse and appropriate Christian responses to creation

3. The ‘Who are We?’ question.

Cartesian views of self

Hume’s theory of perceptions and ideas

Olthuis’s be(ing)coming and Christian views of humanness

Miroslav Volf’s decentred self (Galatians 2:20)

Issues of social responsibility growing out of who we are as Christians ( 2/3 rd’s world issues

4. ‘What is the Problem’ question

Ramachandra on Idolatry and Violence

Mosquito Coast reflections

5. ‘What is the Remedy’ question

Bruegemann’s discussion of the prophets criticizing and energizing

The big story

Improvisational living

What are you learning to love