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*** SHOW NOTES (not a transcript) ***
Lead:
Reflecting on our “spotting worldviews” series.
Intro:
Some days your reading just sucks. Today is that day. Nonetheless, we begin with reflection of the book of Matthew so far, then reflect on the worldview stuff, and close with a psalm (which we haven’t done in awhile).
Sponsor:
Today’s sponsor and provider of background music is Pip Craighead’s The Dandelion Project, and the new track is Night School.
Bible segment (read along with The Bible Project):
Passage: Matthew 17-18
Translation: NLT (New Living Translation)
Verses: 62
Words: ~1311
Thinking/reflection segment:
Our journey so far.
Question 1: Zero, one, or more than one god?
Question 2: If one god, what is the relationship god has to the cosmos — the created order?
Question 3: If no god, how do you explain meaning and morality?
Comparison 1: How do different worldviews think about reality?
Comparison 2: How do different worldviews explain what’s wrong with the world?
Comparison 3: How do different worldviews present as an answer to what’s wrong? (2)
Wisdom segment:
Passage:
Translation:
Verses:
Words:
Love you!
-R
Roger Courville, CSP is a globally-recognized expert in digitally-extended communication and connection, an award-winning speaker, award-winning author, and a passionately bad guitarist. Follow him on Twitter -- @RogerCourville and @JoinForTheHope – or his blog: www.forthehope.org.
Sources and resources:
(1) Norman L. Geisler, “Atheism” Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, Baker Reference Library (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1999), 56.
(2) Tom Price and David Montoya, "Belief Mapping: Discover Your Unique Way of Seeing the World" (handout presented in a contemporary spirituality class at Oxford Centre for christian Apologetics -- Business Programme, July 4, 2019). Learn more at BeliefMapping.com.
Other:
Norman L. Geisler and Ronald M. Brooks, When Skeptics Ask (Wheaton, IL: Victor, 1990), 2. This, by the way, is a brilliantly organized work on apologetics, approachable if you don’t have a doctorate in philosophy or theology, and is a book I’d heartily recommend.
Cameron Blair, “Worldviews” blairs.id.au (blog), 2005, http://blairs.id.au/worldviews/. Accessed August 24, 2019. This is a brilliant flowchart if you want to go more deeply.