Description
A primer for thinking and acting Christianly in the cultural arena. A guide for applying a Christian mind to today’s most challenging issues: religious freedom, creation care, euthanasia, abortion, human sexuality, marriage, and more.
This course is a survey of contemporary social challenges. Students are challenged to think through how an authentic Christian worldview can provide a compassionate, effective witness in our culture today. Lessons from history reveal why today’s issues might not be as new as they seem. This course offers biblical ideas for conversing about significant topics with others in their relations with loved ones, neighbors and colleagues.
Learning Objectives
- Analyze the implications of living in a universe that can be observed and how that demonstrates God’s concern for humanity.
- Identify reasons for Christians to concern themselves with the surrounding culture.
- Understand how answers to metaphysical questions, addressing both the positive and negative aspects of human progress, often lead to cultural conflict.
- Identify biblical directives for the attributes Christians ought to pursue when engaging with the culture.
- Recognize the consequences ideas have on our actions and the influence decisions have on the world around us.
Assignments
- read UTC: Introduction (Sec 1.1–1.12, pp. 11–35) 📅 2024-09-09 🛫 2025-09-05 🔼
- read UTC: What is Culture? (Sec 2.1–2.7, pp. 37–61) 📅 2024-09-16 🛫 2024-09-13 🔼
- read UTC: Christianity & Culture: History (Sec 3.1–3.11, pp. 63–86) 📅 2024-09-23 🛫 2024-09-18 🔼
- watch A Christian Perspective of Art (34.44 min) 📅 2024-09-23 ⏳ 2024-09-19 ⏫
- quiz A Christian Perspective of Art 📅 2024-09-22 ⏳ 2024-09-19 ⏫
- quiz Chapter 1 & 2 📅 2024-09-20 ⏫
- read UTC: Christianity & Culture: Plan (Sec 4.1–4.5, pp. 89–113) 📅 2024-09-30 🛫 2024-09-25 🔼
- quiz Chapter 3 📅 2024-09-27 ⏫