Christianity Reflection

Coming into this class at the beginning of the semester, I was very confused about the subject of “truth”. Over the past few years, my definition of this word had changed dramatically. I had hoped that taking a deeper look into worldviews would help me create a contrast between what I did and did not believe, and if I could find the truth of Christianity which had been eluding me for so long. In this course, I found that the topics of Classical Christian Theism, Deism, Traditionalism, New Age Philosophy, and Postmodernism had all influenced my own, current understanding. And, through studying these, I realized how I had arrived at my current beliefs, and how to continue my journey for truth. Growing up, Classical Christian Theism was my dominant …show more content…
All I needed to accept was the reality of Jesus’ promises, teachings, and resurrection. I had been naïve to think that I could, through one worldviews class, completely understand Christianity and what it meant to me. The purpose of senior seminar was to explore a plethora of beliefs, not draw definite conclusions. Through it, I found that truths existed in all of them, but that my truth, though I understood little of it, belonged to God. Unlike Naturalism, which built its foundation on reason and science, Christianity was “…a religion you could not have guessed” (Lewis, Mere Christianity 41). Again, “…real things are not simple” (40). Truth is difficult to discover. If it were simple, only one worldview would exist, and all humans would have acknowledged it from the dawn of time. I have ceased my dedicated search for an explainable and easily understandable worldview. After taking this course, I now believe that I will never find the whole, complete answer. My goal is to learn through interacting with people both similar to and different from me, in order to find small truths that will influence my ideas. I began Senior Honors Seminar looking for an answer, and instead, I have turned my questions into my