3. Overview of the History of Western Civilization European Renaissance (1300s-1500s) Protestant Reformation (1500s) Age of Enlightenment or Reason (1700s) Industrial Revolution (1750-early 1800s) Post-Modernism (1900s) *Deconstruction, relativism, post- structuralism

4. Overview of the History of Western Civilization European Renaissance (1300s-1500s) Protestant Reformation (1500s) Age of Enlightenment or Reason (1700s) Industrial Revolution (1750-early 1800s) Post-Modernism (1900s) *Deconstruction, relativism, post- structuralism

6. Overview of the History of Western Civilization European Renaissance (1300s-1500s) Protestant Reformation (1500s) Age of Enlightenment or Reason (1700s) Industrial Revolution (1750-early 1800s) Post-Modernism (1900s) *Deconstruction, relativism, post- structuralism

10. Tolerance a : sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own b : the act of allowing something Merriam-Webster Dictionary

11. Cultural tolerance in our society today is promoted as respect and understanding, but it also demands acceptance and affirmation

12. “[This postmodern view] is that every individual’s beliefs, values, lifestyle and perception of truth… …claims are equal…there is no hierarchy of truth. Your beliefs and my beliefs are equal and all truth is relative.” -Thomas A. Helmbock

13. “Truth is produced, not found.” -Hayden White Professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz “No right or wrong answer exists when values are at stake.” Economics Today and Tomorrow High School text book

19. “At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, ‘Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.’ This phrase, ‘Yet once more,’ indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken.” --Hebrews 12:26-28 Cultural Shift: A Season of Shaking