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Beyond worldview Recent thinking on worldview discourse Ken Dickens Has “worldview” lost its usefulness? Constructed Revealed Authentic Christian education Authentic Christian education Theology Education Theology Worldview Education Worldview Bible Biblical Worldview Bible Biblical worldview Redemption Fall Creation Biblical worldview Evangelical Redemption preaching Fall Biblical worldview Redemption Creation Christian education Biblical worldview Progress Creation Christian education Development of the concept 19th Century 20th Century 21st Century German philosophy Orr & Kuyper Reformed evangelicals Reformational philosophers Evangelicals Reformed critique German philosophy Orr & Kuyper Reformed evangelicals Reformational philosophers German philosophy Marxism Social science disciplines Evangelicals Reformed critique Evangelicals Reformed critique Worldview critique Goheen & Bartholomew (2008) Bonzo & Stevens (2009) James Smith (2009) Goheen & Bartholomew (2008) Living at the crossroads: An introduction to Christian worldview Intellectualism Relativism Biblical replacement Activism Bonzo & Stevens After worldview: Christian Higher Education in postmodern worlds • Evangelical use • Way of life • World & Life vision Pierson Seerveld Olthuis Wolters Walsh (2000) • Holy jugglers • Tainted with humanism • Evangelical use Pierson Evangelicals and worldview confusion Kuyperian roots – two meanings Religious nature of life Structure & direction Moral & normative James K A Smith (2009) Desiring the kingdom: Worship, worldview and cultural formation I think. Therefore I am. (Descartes) I worship. Therefore I am. (Christian telos) Social imaginaries rather than worldview We learn to love and worship through liturgies Education is more about formation than information Social imaginaries rather than worldview We learn to love and worship through liturgies Education is more about formation than information Response to Smith Kuperian/Naugle worldview appreciated heart commitment Love and worship involves the cognitive Pedagogical liturgies are planned out of our beliefs Special case of teacher education What will fire his Christian imagination? An encounter with Christ But he is already a Christian! Formation through habitual, communal practices? A vision for life in the Kingdom Disclosure of other kingdoms Disclosure of other kingdoms? Colossians remixed – Walsh & Keesmaat Everyday theology - Vanhoozer Knowing Christ today - Willard The naturalist or Nirvana stories But he is already a Christian! Biblical philosophy – Three philosophies of life (Kreeft) Theology of creation – Creation regained (Wolters) Ethics – The joined up life (Cameron) Recognise that we are narrative formed people Worldview questions rather than a system How can I live and die happily? (Olthuis) How do I know what is right and wrong? (Sire) What’s gone wrong? (Walsh & Middleton) Who is a good person? (Willard) Worldview is symbolic for the Lordship of Christ over all things (Col. 1) The final word from Naugle As a result, a philosophically sophisticated, God centred conception of a Christian worldview spares believers from naïve fideism, scandalous ant-intellectualism and cultural obscurantism. In turn it imparts to then a cognitive confidence, an apologetic strategy, a cultural relevance, and a sound, spiritual basis for life in the coherent picture of God’s larger story (Naugle, 2002, p. 341). Ken Dickens [email protected]