2. Ernest Manges - PT Live (with thanks to CIT)

3. 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”

4. Worldview Definition A map of reality that people use for living -Paul Hiebert Transforming Worldviews (Baker 2008), 15.

5. 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

6. 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, 5 th edn (IVP 2009), 20.

7. Beliefs Values Behaviors Worldview Lloyd E. Kwast

8. 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, 5 th edn (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2008), 22-23.

9. 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?

10. 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

11. 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, 5 th edn (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2008), 22-23.

12. Animism Monism Dualism Naturalism Judeo-Christian monotheism Islamic monotheism The major worldviews of the world

13. 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, 5 th edn (IVP 2009), 20.

14. Animism Monism Dualism Naturalism Judeo-Christian monotheism Islamic monotheism The major worldviews of the world

15. The Animistic Worldview

16. The Monistic Worldview

17. The Dualistic Worldview

18. The Naturalistic Worldview

20. 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.

21. The Monotheistic Worldview – Judeo-Christian

22. Islamic

23. Discuss : Is there a single Christian worldview?

24. 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.

25. 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.

26. Beliefs Values Behaviors Worldview Lloyd E. Kwast

27. Multilayer analysis of cultural artifacts and actions

28. Digging deeper into the culture

29. Multilayer analysis of cultural artifacts and actions Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Wearing a watch

30. Multilayer analysis of cultural artifacts and actions Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Wearing a watch Being prompt

31. Multilayer analysis of cultural artifacts and actions Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Wearing a watch Being prompt Time is valuable

32. Multilayer analysis of cultural artifacts and actions Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Wearing a watch Being prompt Time is valuable Time can be saved & spent

33. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Taking a pill for pain

34. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Taking a pill Meds are the for pain best way to get rid of pain

35. 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

36. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Taking a pill Meds are the Meds work Reality is what for pain best way to becausescience has get rid of pain based on proven science Naturalism

37. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview After the burial, walking through the smoke

38. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview After the burial, To be free walking through from bad the smoke spirits

39. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview After the burial, To be free The smoke walking through from bad washes away the smoke spirits bad spirits

40. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview After the burial, To be free The smokeSpirits are all walking through from bad washes awayaround and some the smoke spirits bad spiritswill bother us Animism

41. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Avoiding stepping on ants

42. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Avoiding stepping Preserving on ants all life

43. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Avoiding stepping Preserving All life is on ants all life sacred

44. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Avoiding stepping Preserving All life isAll is one on ants all life sacred Monism

45. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Broccoli and beef served together

46. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Broccoli and beef Meals should served together be balanced

47. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Broccoli and beef Meals should Broccoli is ‘cool,’ served together be balanced beef is ‘warm’

48. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview Broccoli and beef Meals should Broccoli is cool,We must submit to served together be balanced beef is warmthe balance of nature Dualism

49. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview When diagnosed, going home and doing one’s own research

50. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview When diagnosed, Being an going home and informed doing one’s own consumer of research medicine

51. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview When diagnosed, Being an Doctors can going home and informed be wrong doing one’s own consumer of research medicine

52. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview When diagnosed, Being an Doctors canHuman knowledge going home and informed be wrongis both limited and doing one’s own consumer ofbiased research medicine Naturalism / late modernism

53. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview When diagnosed, going home and asking the church to pray

54. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview When diagnosed, Trusting God going home and with my asking the church illness to pray

55. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview When diagnosed, Trusting God Prayer works going home and with my asking the church illness to pray

56. Behaviors Values Beliefs Worldview When diagnosed, Trusting God Prayer worksThere is a God going home and with mywho listens and asking the church illnessresponds to pray Judeo-Christian Monotheism

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