What do you mean by Morality ?

 Do you realize that people in Africa, Europe and the middle east all have a different idea concerning clothing ?  Take for instance, Africans (usually Tribal people), have their women walking around topless  Europeans don’t go topless, but they do cover up, though skimpily  Women in the middle east are totally covered, so as to appear wholesome and Chaste.

 The differences in these cultures are a result of “worldview”- How they see the world.  In each culture, it is generally different.

 The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world.  A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group.

 Some cultures see older people as wise and cherished-they live with families all their life  Some put them in nursing homes, because they have no time to care for them  In times past, within other nomad cultures e.g. (among the Eskimos), the old would walk out in the snow to die, so as to not slow down the others

 So what’s so significant about worldviews, with regard to Christianity.

 The world has changed in many ways since first century Palestine  If we are honest, we will observe that though the message of Christianity Is the same, we have made changes in how we present it.  Why ?---Because the world has changed, Meaning, people have changed and so, our approach should consider them.

 Well just how has this world changed ?

 How has worldviews shifted throughout time?  What are some of the different time periods we can remember?  How different were the people, to each other and to us ?

 After the ancient times of Palestine, marked by Roman rule and dominance of the ‘known” world, we have a time period developing, which Historians refer to as the medieval age…  This was the age of Kings, queens, Jesters and peasants

 The chain of command was as follows :  God  Church  King  People  Animal and things

 God was over all things  The church was an integral part of Life- teaching God’s will  The great chain of being saw God at the top, his church, followed by the King, then people and finally,animals and things (trees, rocks et)

 The word Renaissance is a French word meaning new birth, a name given to the movement in Europe that inspired men to abandon the restraints of the Middle Ages and to develop modern interests, enthusiasm and ideals.Middle Ages  Its most noted feature was the Revival of Learning, an awakening of mind and a thirst after the new knowledge.  This resulted in numerous investigations of natural events, in a widespread study of art and literature and in a broadening of outlook to a degree never before known.

 It was the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries 2. the revival of learning and culture  Changes occurred in all major areas of life: art, culture and even religion

The Renaissance/Reformation

 CHAIN OF -- COMMAND  God  King  People  Animals are not so important still. but hold on!!

 The Age of Revolution is a term used to denote the period from approximately 1760 to 1830, a time in which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean  The period is noted for the change in government from absolutist monarchies to constitutionalist states and republics. absolutist monarchiesconstitutionalist states republics  The Age of Revolution includes the American Revolution the French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, the revolt of the slaves in Latin America, and the independence movements of nations in Latin America.American RevolutionFrench RevolutionHaitian RevolutionLatin America

 Chain of command  God  People( Gvnt by the people, for the people)  The church is no longer ‘on top of the world” per say

 he first Golden Age of Science Fiction, often recognized as a period from the late 1930s or early 1940s through the 1950s, was an era during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published.1930s1940s 1950sscience fiction

 Man began to believe more in his ability to create and effect change  Science was seen as a more concrete way of “knowing” and “doing”.  The church, with it’s supernatural claims, solved no problems for humans. Science was the answer now….

 Chain of command ?  People (own authority)

 urbanization means the removal of the rural characteristics of a town or area ; a process associated with the development of civilization and technology. Demographically, the term denotes redistribution of populations from rural to urban settlements  Factories/assembly lines/mass production

 Chain of command  There’s really none  No community or family  Where and who is God ?  Pets and animals replace family and human interaction  No time !!.time Is money!!

 People over the ages have changed their view of God. As societies, they live in change  The need for community has changed to individualism  “looking out for number one”—ME!! “Yes I found out all the tricks of the trade and that there's only one way you're gonna get things done “I found out the only way to the top is looking out for number one and that's me I'm looking out for number one” (overdrive Bachman-turner)