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Teaching and Living Worldviewishly: Understanding the World of Worldviews

Teaching and Living Worldviewishly: Understanding the World of Worldviews. Getting out of. the Christian Bubble. “ Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way to that.” George Lucas. “The various religions are like different roads

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Teaching and Living Worldviewishly: Understanding the World of Worldviews

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  1. Teaching and Living Worldviewishly: Understanding the World of Worldviews

  2. Getting out of the Christian Bubble

  3. “Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way to that.” George Lucas

  4. “The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination.”Mahatma Gandhi

  5. “I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals or of a personal God.” -- Thomas Edison

  6. “The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance… logic can be happily tossed out the window.” -- Stephen King Author

  7. “Here’s what happens when you die– you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee that when you die, nothing cool happens.” -- Howard Stern radio shock jock

  8. “I believe in the good message that you can find in religion. But whether there is some ruler up there, above the clouds, I doubt it.” -- Annika Sorenstam professional golfer

  9. “I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and what we can for each other.” -- Katharine Hepburn Actress

  10. “Yes, we are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.” -- Bill Maher celebrity

  11. The Biblical Challenge “. . . Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” - Matthew 22:37

  12. The Biblical Challenge Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not be conformed any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind . . . - Romans 12:1-2

  13. The Cultural Challenge . . . men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do . . . - 1 Chronicles 12:32

  14. The Cultural Challenge To these four young men God gave knowledgeand understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. . . In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times betterthan all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom. - Daniel 1:17,20

  15. Are we . . . thinking worldviewishly? We think . . . in fragments

  16. Are we . . . thinking worldviewishly? We think . . . in fragments in images

  17. Are we . . . thinking worldviewishly? We think . . . in fragments in images in sounds

  18. What is a Worldview? “A worldview is first of all an explanation and interpretation of the world, and second, an application of this view to life.” W. Gary Phillips and William E. Brown Making Sense of Your World, p. 29.

  19. Your worldview EXPLANATION INTERPRETATION Your view OF the world

  20. Your worldview APPLICATION Your view FOR the world

  21. Behavior Values Worldview

  22. Your worldview answers the ULTIMATE questions… ORIGIN:Where did everything come from? MEANING:Why are we here? MORALITY:How should we live? DESTINY:What happens when we die?

  23. O R I G I N M E A N I N G M O R A L I T Y D E S T I N Y

  24. ORI G I N E M EAN I N G L M O R A LIT Y T D E S T I NY

  25. Transcen- dentalism Naturalism Ultimate Questions Theism

  26. Naturalism

  27. Naturalism the world as we see it

  28. Naturalism NATURE Nothing

  29. “It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God…I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that…” Thomas Nagel Professor of Law and Philosophy NYU

  30. TRANSCENDENTALISM the world as we want it

  31. TRANSCENDENTALISM NATURE Nothing = “GOD”

  32. GOD?

  33. Theism the world from God's hand

  34. Theism NATURE God

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