ernest manges - pt live (with thanks to cit) to understand the concept of worldview. to understand...

Ernest Manges - PT Live(with thanks to CIT)

• To understand the concept of worldview.• To understand and accept the need to

understand that culture is layered.• To practice going deeper by using a tool

Core competency 6I-01 “Culture and worldview”

Objectives for “Worldview”

Worldview Definition

A map of reality that people use for living -Paul HiebertTransforming Worldviews (Baker 2008), 15.

Worldview Definition

Worldview, the deep level of culture, is the culturally structured set of assumptions (including values and commitments/allegiances) underlying how people perceive and respond to reality.

- Charles H. Kraft

Worldview Definition

A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) that we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundation on which we live and move and have our being. - James Sire,

The Universe Next Door, 5th edn (IVP 2009), 20.

Beliefs

Values

Behaviors

Worldview

Lloyd E. Kwast

8 Basic Worldview Questions 1. What is prime reality – the really real?

2. What is the nature of external reality, that is, the world around us?

3. What is a human being?

4. What happens to a person at death?

5. Why is it possible to know anything at all?

6. How do we know what is right and wrong?

7. What is the meaning of human history?

8. What personal, life-orienting core commitments are consistent with this worldview?

James W. Sire, The universe next door, 5th edn (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2008), 22-23.

Worldview clash

Missionary: I’m here to bring you wisdom from Jesus.

Tribal elder: You say you have come to bring us wisdom about this Jesus. Yet you also just told me that you cannot give me the names of your great-grandfathers. How can this be?

Conversion may include a change in beliefs and behavior, but if the worldview is not transformed, in the long run the gospel is subverted and the result is a syncretistic Christo-paganism, which has the form of Christianity, but not its essence. Christianity becomes a new magic and a new, subtler form of idolatry. - Hiebert, Transforming Worldviews, 11

Transforming Worldview

8 Basic Worldview Questions 1. What is prime reality – the really real?

2. What is the nature of external reality, that is, the world around us?

3. What is a human being?

4. What happens to a person at death?

5. Why is it possible to know anything at all?

6. How do we know what is right and wrong?

7. What is the meaning of human history?

8. What personal, life-orienting core commitments are consistent with this worldview?

James W. Sire, The universe next door, 5th edn (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2008), 22-23.

•Animism•Monism•Dualism•Naturalism•Judeo-Christian monotheism•Islamic monotheism

The major worldviews of the world

Worldview Definition

A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) that we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundation on which we live and move and have our being. - James Sire,

The Universe Next Door, 5th edn (IVP 2009), 20.

•Animism•Monism•Dualism•Naturalism•Judeo-Christian monotheism•Islamic monotheism

The major worldviews of the world

The Animistic Worldview

The Monistic Worldview

The Dualistic Worldview

The Naturalistic Worldview

Tim Keller, Center Church:- Danger to think we live in a society

opposite of modernity.- Modernity promotes autonomy of

the individual & personal freedom.

- Modernity rejects traditional authorities (religion, family, community).So: we live in late modernity.

The Monotheistic Worldview –

Judeo-Christian

The Monotheistic Worldview –

Islamic

Discuss :

Is there a single Christian worldview?

Andrew Walls:

Conversion is “the turning towards Christ of everything that is there already, so that Christ comes into places, thoughts, relationships and world-view in which He has never lived before.”Cited in Craig Ott & Harold Netland, eds, Globalizing theology (Baker 2006), 98.

Andrew Walls:

“Christianity has no culturally fixed element, as is provided by the Qur’an fixed in heaven . . .” for Muslims.

Andrew F. Walls, The cross-cultural process in Christian History (Orbis 2002), 13.

Beliefs

Values

Behaviors

Worldview

Lloyd E. Kwast

Multilayer analysis of cultural artifacts and

actions

Digging deeper into the culture

Multilayer analysis of cultural artifacts and actions

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Wearing a watch

Multilayer analysis of cultural artifacts and actions

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Wearing a watch Being prompt

Multilayer analysis of cultural artifacts and actions

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Wearing a watch Being prompt Time is valuable

Multilayer analysis of cultural artifacts and actions

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Wearing a watch Being prompt Time is valuable Time can be saved & spent

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Taking a pillfor pain

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Taking a pill Meds are the for pain best way to

get rid of pain

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Taking a pill Meds are the Meds work for pain best way to because

get rid of pain based on science

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Taking a pill Meds are the Meds work Reality is whatfor pain best way to because science has

get rid of pain based on proven science

Naturalism

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

After the burial, walking throughthe smoke

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

After the burial, To be freewalking through from badthe smoke spirits

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

After the burial, To be free The smokewalking through from bad washes awaythe smoke spirits bad spirits

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

After the burial, To be free The smoke Spirits are allwalking through from bad washes away around and somethe smoke spirits bad spirits will bother us

Animism

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Avoiding steppingon ants

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Avoiding stepping Preservingon ants all life

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Avoiding stepping Preserving All life ison ants all life sacred

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Avoiding stepping Preserving All life is All is oneon ants all life sacred

Monism

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Broccoli and beefserved together

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Broccoli and beef Meals shouldserved together be balanced

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Broccoli and beef Meals should Broccoli is ‘cool,’served together be balanced beef is ‘warm’

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

Broccoli and beef Meals should Broccoli is cool, We must submit toserved together be balanced beef is warm the balance of

nature

Dualism

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

When diagnosed, going home and doing one’s own research

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

When diagnosed, Being an going home and informed doing one’s own consumer ofresearch medicine

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

When diagnosed, Being an Doctors cangoing home and informed be wrongdoing one’s own consumer ofresearch medicine

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

When diagnosed, Being an Doctors can Human knowledgegoing home and informed be wrong is both limited anddoing one’s own consumer of biasedresearch medicine

Naturalism / late modernism

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

When diagnosed, going home and asking the churchto pray

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

When diagnosed, Trusting God going home and with myasking the church illnessto pray

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

When diagnosed, Trusting God Prayer worksgoing home and with myasking the church illnessto pray

Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview

When diagnosed, Trusting God Prayer works There is a Godgoing home and with my who listens andasking the church illness respondsto pray

Judeo-Christian Monotheism

Many thanks to CIT and to Bob Mackey for some of these slides. This is Kingdom partnership at work!