Is That Andy?

Learning has liberated more people than all the armies ever assembled by man kind.
- Carl Rowan

People that live in Ohio don’t know what America’s all about
- Baby Wyman

• World-views are both a strategy and a way of life
• World-views…
• help unify our thought life (like a quilt)
• help us in our search for meaning (like a puzzle)
• help us gain direction for actions (like a roadmap)
• help us be centered in our exploring (like a plum line)
• Christian World-view is a person. Our allegiance is to someone, not simply and idea
• Applying our mental images - he unifies our thoughts, creates our meaning, maps our lives, and centers us in our explorations
• Deeper Purpose of World-view
• Comprehensive strategies for “seeing” the world. Understanding how it works.
• Ways of seeking plausible answers to the perennial “pesky” questions of life (see, handout)
• Is a life-long process that will involve change as you encounter real life
• Selected competeing world-views
• All world views, including Christianity, explore three essential matters
• metaphysics - being
• epistemics - knowing
• axiology - valuing and doing
• But not ever wolrd view arrives at the same place as Christianity
• There is not a single monolithic Christian world-view
• There is a world-view goverended by a few gnereal and commonly agred to core ideas, and with these, some variations.
• Triune Godhead
• Pre-existence / deity of Christ
• Inspiration of Scripture
• Vigin Birth
• Substitutionary atonement
• Second Coming
• Literal Heaven and Hell