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Worldview and Apologetics

Introduction

Worldview as Solar System

Self

-- I am of worth.

-- Every aspect of my inner being is rooted in God.

Other People

Philippians 4

Paul's Treatise on the Mind

-- other humans are of worth

-- human rights

-- the worth of unborn children

a. Paul's Mind

b. The Mind of Christ

The Center

What is a worldview? Does everyone have a worldview?

Ideology v. Worldview

--continuity (reason, empirical experience, subjective feeling)

Worldview as Solar System:

First we must develop a central point of light, which will then illuminate the value judgements that orbit around this cluster of fundamental principles and doctrines.

Central Presuppositions:

-God is real. He is personal.

-The Bible is true, and is the only profitable means of gaining consistency in reality and in thought. It is the only way to know the good news.

--Imago Dei / The Fall

Philosophy

--Ontology

--Epistemology

God

Nature

Value Judgements:

-- God is the source of all meaning, especially when it comes to evaluating the human person.

Value Judgements:

--God is redeeming nature through our regency.

--Art, Work, Our Creation

--Food

--Stewardship

Part One: Finding the Center

Part Four: The Postmodern Problem

Part Two: Building on a Firm Foundation

III. The Pagan Response (Epistemology)

EQ: How do we know what we know?

I. Creation (Genesis 1)

Genesis 1

The Pagan Response

I. Creation

--image of God (God of meaning)

--creation mandate

II. The Thirst

--everyone suffers from the void of sin

--need for meaning/permanence/consistency

III. Ecclesiastes

--the Hebrew response to the innate need to find meaning

--The Imago Dei

--The Fall (Genesis 3)

--The Creation Mandate (also known as the Cultural Mandate and the Dominion Mandate)

Read Genesis 1:26-31

III. Renaissance/Reformation

a. Sola Scriptura

--The Regulative Principle (Worship)

b. Cultural Ethic of Transformation (The Creation Mandate)

IV. The Enlightenment

a. Rationalism

--the rise of ideologies

b. Human Autonomy

Unified Plane of Knowledge

The Pagan Response

The question of how we know what we know is a perennial one. Various peoples and cultures have wrestled with the epistemological question throughout history. In Western culture we look to the age of Plato and Aristotle to gain some insight into the development of this essential human question. We've seen how the Hebrews dealt with questions of meaning and ultimate purpose. Now it's time for us to look at some contrasting views.

The Imago Dei

The Creation Mandate

Epistemology

EQ: How do we know what we know? What is truth?

"The Image of God and the Cultural Mandate" -- Dr. Glenn Sunshine

--The imago Dei is a central Christian doctrine, a doctrine founded in scripture and developed over many years.

Thomas Aquinas:

--Man is said to be after the image of God, not as regards his body, but as regards that whereby he excels other animals. Hence, when it is said, Let us make man in our image and likeness, it is added, And let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea. Now man excels all animals by his reason and intelligence; hence it is according to his intelligence and reason, which are incorporeal, that man is said to be according to the image of God.

-- Worldview Review

-- Current Events

EQ: Where are we from?

What are we worth?

Aristotle

Plato

I. A World of Shadows

--allegory of the cave

--knowledge has two components: particulars (i.e., measurable phenomena) and universals (i.e., answers to the inescapable questions of life)

II. Focus

--universals are innate

--learning is remembering

I. Matter Matters

-- accepted the difference between particulars and universals; however, believed that meaning is confined to the particulars

II. Focus

--knowledge comes through a study of measurable phenomena

I. Realities of Living in the Postmodern Age

II. Where is Society Headed?

III. A Review of Our Role

--"The Pedestrian" - Ray Bradbury

I. Truth, Beauty, and Justice (Philippians 4)

a. The Mind of Christ

--mental renewal

b. A Christian View of the Arts

--Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?

--What does it mean for something to be beautiful and lovely?

Anthropological

The Fall

Implications

Genesis 3 (ESV)

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

--we (intellect, heart, will) have a starting point (God)

-- we are worth a great deal (ourselves)

-- moral implications (other people)

-- creation mandate (nature)

Part Three: A Brave New World

II. Human Striving (Ecc. and Isaiah)

The Thirst

Isaiah 55: 1-5

C.S. Lewis called it “the inconsolable longing in the heart for we know not what.” He goes on, “That unnameable something, desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World’s End, the opening lines of Kubla Khan, the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves.”

--The Void (Disconnectedness), a product of The Fall

IV. The Word (John 1/ 2 Tim. 3:16)

a. The Hinge of History

--the gospel

--centrality of the Logos

b. The Only Profitable Means of Completion

--household of knowledge (Upper/lower story

knowledge)

The Remedy

The Chief End of Man

I. Government

II. Science

III. Technology

According to Isaiah, how do we quench this thirst?

2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,

and your labor for that which does not satisfy?

Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,

and delight yourselves in rich food.

3 Incline your ear, and come to me;

hear, that your soul may live;

and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,

my steadfast, sure love for David.

All things considered, what does the preacher in Ecclesiastes have to say about the meaning of life?

Westminster Shorter Catechism:

Q. 1. What is the chief end of man?

A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

II. The Medieval Age

a. Augustine/Aquinas

--classical apologetics

--proofs for the existence of God

b. The Catholic Age

--medieval art

--state of Christianity

What is the meaning of life?

The Remedy (cont.)

Material

Qoheleth (Ko-hay-let)

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11

Does this contradict everything we've noted about human striving so far?

Augustine: "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."

C.S. Lewis calls it joy.

What does it mean to eat what is good?

Material v. Transcendence

Money & Labor v. Good Food & God's Word

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