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Why study other worldviews?
-Command to love others
-to make a defense
3 basic worldview structures?
Theism. Pantheism. Naturalism.
Abrahamic Religions
-Judaism
-Islam
-Christianity
Deism
Personal God that does not sustain
Polytheism
Belief in many gods
Animism
Belief that everything has a spirit. ex://Pocahauntas
2 Fundamental differences in Theistic Worldvies
1) Who is Jesus
2) Divine Revelations
Deism: Fundamental Differences
1) Jesus is not god
2) No divine revelation
Judaism: Fundamental Differences
1) Jesus is not God
2) Divine Revelation ends in OT
Christianity: Fundamental Differences
1) Jesus is God/Trinity
2) Divine Revelation continues in NT
Islam: Fundamental Differences
1) Jesus is a prophet
2) Divine Revelation in Mohammad
Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints: Fundamental Differences
1)Jesus was an exalted preexisting Spirit
2) New Revelation
Naturalism: Basic View
God does not exist, the physical world is all there is
Atheism
Belief in no God
Agnosticism
Unsure if god exists
Materialism
Belief in only material world
Nihilism
Belief in no god, no purpose, no meaning, nothing matters
Secular Humanism
Every human has value, purpose, and is to be respected
Atheistic Existentialism
You give you meaning and purpose
Charles Dickens: Scrooge, is an example of (what worldview)
Naturalism
Pantheism: Basic View
-God is the Universe and the goal is to become one with the universe
-only nonphysical exists like the universe and spiritual reality
Pantheism 1.0: Monism
All is one
Features of monism:
1) The soul of each human is:
2) Oneness with the universe is:
3) Oneness with the universe is:
4) Oneness with the universe is:
1) the soul of the universe
2) Passing beyond human personality
3) noncognitive
4) beyond good and evil
Pantheism 2.0 merges (1) with (2)
1) Monism
2) Western Individuality
Features of New Age:
1) We create own reality through:
2) A preoccupation with:
3) the mixing and matching of spiritual stuff in spiritual "pot"
4) Salvation is found:
1) mental activity
2) the spiritual
3) syncrestic
4) within
Worldview and Avocados?
Like Avocados, you can compare worldviews to one another
Different Conceptions of a Worldview? (2)
1) Road map - does it line up with the way we experience the world
2) Feast - is it attractive
4 Tests for Worldviews
1) Test of Reason
2) Test of Experience
3) Test of Practice
4) Test of Scripture
Naturalism and Test of Reason
- can only be coherent if you are a nihilist
-evolution cannot explain why we should trust reason
Naturalism and Test of Experience
- Arbitraily restricts the data
Naturalism and 1) Roadmap 2) Feast
No and No!
Pantheism and Test of Reason
-Proud to be inconsistent
-Rejects the laws of logic
Pantheism and Test of Experience
-No reason to account for suffering
-Goal is to become nonhuman
Pantheism 1) Roadmap 2) Feast
No and No!
Biblical WOrldview on Test of Reason
- consistent and coherent
- explanation for reason
Biblical Worldview on Test of Experience
-explains our outer experiences
-explains our inner experiences
Biblical Worldview 1)Roadmap 2) Feast
Yes and Yes!
Jesus and Truth:

"To witness to the truth"
John 18:33-38
Jesus and Truth: Jesus
1) I have come to bare wittness of the truth
2) of the truth or not of the truth
Jesus and Truth: Pilate
1) What is Truth?
2) Not of the Truth
Truth and the Bible: 'emet
1)What is 'emet
Hebrew
-Faithfulness
-Factuality
1) Our God is the God of Truth
2) God's word is true
"Our God is the God of Truth"
Isaiah 65:16
Truth in New Testament: Alethia
1) What is alethia
Greek
-Factuality
-Completeness
1) The word of God is true
2) The gospel is true
The Trinity and the Truth
1) God the Father is the true God
2) Jesus the son, is the truth
3) Holy Spirit is the Truth
Acts 5
Ananias Lied to the Holy Spirit
Truth in Philosophy: Correspondance Theory of truth
A proposition is true provided there exists a fact corresponding to it
Common Sense Theory of Truth example
Seinfield: "But I'm not a Marine Biologist"
Propositional Truth: Truth is a relationship between:
Propositions and Reality
A proposition is a:
What is a proposition most simply?
1) Relationship
2) a truth claim
Logic
The proper use of our reason
Metaphysics
Reality, what exists/ is true
Epistemology
Knowledge
The Texas Two-Step
1) Something is Either True or False (Metaphysics)
2)Someone may know if it is True of False (Epistemology)
3 things about Propositions
1) Objective
2) True or False in Reality
3) Our Paradigm Proposition: "There is a burger in the bag"
Beliefs:
1) To believe something is to:
1) hold it to be true
Reasonable Belief:
We can know if beliefs are:
-A belief with evidence
-Reasonable
Knowledge in the Bible
1) proverbs
2) John 9
3) Warnings against knowledge
We know something if: (3)
1) we believe it
2) it is true
3) it is reasonable
To know something, we do not need:
Certainty and scientific evidence
The Search for Certainty
1) We know a lot of stuff
2) Knowledge = 100% certainty
Implications of Knowledge
1) Epistemological Humility
2) Confidence in the Gospel
3) Heirarchy of beliefs
"And I, When I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with loffty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified"
1 COR 2:1-2
De Weese's 3 senses of Pstmodern
1) Postmodernism as worldview
2) Postmodernism as culture
3) Postmodernism as style
Kant
-Leader to postmodern philosophers
-high view of reason
-makes a distinction between things that are knowable
Nietzsche
-Leader to postmodern philosophers
-perspectivalism
Wittgenstein
-Leader to postmodern philosophers
-language games
Lyotard
-Postmodern Philosopher
-first to use "postmodern"
-incredulity towards metanarratives
Fouchult
-Postmodern Philosopher
-Knowledge of History is subjective
-Knowledge = power
Derrida
-Postmodern Philosopher
-deconstructivism
Rorty
-Postmodern Philosopher
-pragmatism
-rejects our map of correspondance theory of truth
What do naturalists say that all reality is?
Reality is natural, not supernatural, universe is all there is
Should Christians Reject 100% of naturalism?
No
According to Cosgrove, what is the epistemological crisis of naturalism?
Crisis in knowledge
What does atheistic naturalism lead to?
Nihilism
According to Horner, something is coherent when ____
it hold together
According to Horner, Postmodernism is not a ___but a ___
1) metaphysical perspective
2) epistomological stance
According to horner, what is a core belief?
belief at the center of its web, worldview's central beliefs that distinguish it from other beliefs
Horner defines theology as:
Thinking about God and about all of reality in relation to God
According to Horner, What is knowledge?
Justified true belief that combines true belief with rational belief
According to Horner, What does it mean to think contexually?
Approaching your interactions with people and ideas by stiving to understand where you are and whom you are
What Verbs are used in to describe Paul's approach in Acts 17)
REP
Reasoned, Explaining, Proving
According to CS Lewis, Laws of human nature
-what human beings out to do/not do
-not made by humans
According to CS lewis, what are the two views concerning the universe?
-materialistic view
-religious view
According to Russel, truth consists in some form of correspondance between:
belief and fact
According to Horner, what are the four elements of faith?
OCCT
-object
-content
-trust
-commitment
According to horner, Proper faith is an inescapable part of ____
WISDOM
Postmodernists reject what concerning truth?
Correspondence theory of truth
What do postmodernists say concerning universal standards
there are no universal standards due to ones culture and narrative
In postmodernism, is the author's intent important
nope
What does a disciple of truth embrace?
TRUTH