Women's Class: Christian Worldview and the False Dichotomy Between Sacred and Secular (Pt.4)
April 14, 2019 Preacher: Danielle Lochan Series: Women's Class: Christian Worldview and the False Dichotomy between Sacred and Secular
Learning goals: (a) understand different forms of dualism and dichotomies in church history, (b) use the Creation-Fall-Redemption grid to analyze unbalanced theology, (c) discuss how the Creation-Fall-Redemption grid informs our evangelism
Lecture Outline:
- Christian Perspective on Our Work
- Augustine (354-430 AD)
- Aquinas (1225-1274)
- The Reformation
- Unbalanced Theology
EXERCISE: With a partner, analyze the scenarios given and discuss which element (Creation, Fall, Redemption) is being overemphasized, as well as problems with this overemphasis.
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What is being overemphasized? |
What’s the problem here? |
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Someone evangelizes their co-worker by starting with, “You’re a sinner; you need to be saved.” |
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Monasticism rejects marriage as inferior and exalts celibacy |
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Aquinas’ nature/grace dualism: during the Fall, humans lost only the added-on gift of supernatural grace but retained their human faculties essentially intact and unchanged |
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