Ideas have consequences: Assumptions that shape our lives. Rod Thompson

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1 Ideas have consequences: Assumptions that shape our lives Rod Thompson

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15 Kevin Carter ( )

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17 Tent words Intense Intent Attentiveness

18 Tent words Intense Intent Attentiveness

19 Tent words Intense Intent Attentiveness It's the same thing I like about Shakespeare. You take people, put them in a situation that can't possibly happen, and they act the way you would act. It's about being human. Stephenie Meyer

20 The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one s eyes.) The real foundations of his inquiry do not strike a person at all and this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful. Ludwig Wittgenstein ( )

21 C. S. Lewis ( ) I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

22 A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything else in a person s life. Are you a scientist? A liberal? A racist? These are merely species of belief in action. Your beliefs define your vision of the world; they dictate your behavior; they determine your emotional responses to other human beings. Sam Harris

23 Worldview Not merely viewish Not merely individual Not merely thought out Not merely articulated

24 Worldview All people have a worldview and nobody, whether ditchdigger or professional thinker, can live without one. Francis Schaeffer ( )

25 Worldview is your vision of life and your vision for life Walsh and Middleton (1985)

26 Worldviews are networks of implicit beliefs. These beliefs are embedded in widely held stories that answer fundamental questions of life and serve to give meaning to the whole of life.

27 What does it mean to be human? I am what I think I am what I believe I am what I love

28 What does it mean to be human? Human persons are intentional creatures whose fundamental way of intending the world is love or desire. This love or desire which is unconscious or noncognitive is always aimed at some vision of the good life, some particular articulation of the kingdom.

29 What does it mean to be human? What primes us to be so oriented and act accordingly is a set of habits or dispositions that are formed in us through affective, bodily means, especially bodily practices, routines, or rituals that grab hold of our hearts through our imagination, which is closely linked to our bodily senses.

30 What is your worldview? What are your loyalties? The faithfulness and devotion in your life. What are your longings? The hopes and dreams in your life. What are your loves? The intimacies and encounters in your life. What are your liturgies? The practices and habits in your life.

31 It has seemed puzzling to me how greatly attached to the Bible you seem to be and yet how much like pagans you handle it. The great challenge to those of us who wish to take the Bible seriously is to let it teach us its own essential categories; and then for us to think with them, instead of just think about them. Rabbi Abraham Heschel ( )

32 How can the Bible begin to shape worldviews? Know the gospel we must immerse in the full scriptures as God s written word Know the culture we must engage with our cultures through celebration, critique and confrontation Translate we must faithfully live out of the biblical story in the midst of our cultural stories

33 I believe that any Christian who is qualified to write a good popular book on any science may do much more by that than by any directly apologetic work. What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects with their Christianity latent.

34 You can see this most easily if you look at it the other way around.... It is not the books written in direct defence of Materialism that make the modern man a materialist; it is the materialistic assumptions in all the other books. In the same way, it is not books on Christianity that will really trouble him. But he would be troubled if, whenever he wanted a cheap popular introduction to some science, the best work on the market was always by a Christian. C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock

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