Advanced Worldview Analysis

Speaker:

Dr. Ron Nash

Overview

This an introductory course to the analysis of worldviews. These lectures were given at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida during the spring of 2002.

Class Outline

Political Philosophy and the Christian Worldview
Introduction	Discussion of the content of a worldview and the criteria used to evaluate worldviews.
Liberalism and Conservatism	Discussion of liberalism and conservatism, and statism and anti-statism.
Political Positions	Political systems fall along a continuum between the extremes of anarchism and totalitarianism.
Statism and Anti-statism	People favoring statism support extensive government involvement in education and social programs.
Evaluation of Statism and Anti-statism	From a biblical point of view, statism is evil.
Justice	Discussion of justice on an individual and corporate level.
The Christian Worldview and Economics
Capitalism and Socialism	An economy based on capitalism has much less government involvement than an economy based on socialism.
Interventionism	Interventionism is a capitalistic economic system in which government gets involved to allow free exchange within a framework of laws.
Defense of Capitalism	Discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism.
Economics	Two basic concepts of economics are limited resources and the choices we make that reflect our values.
Marxism	Marxism is an economic system based on the idea of a class struggle with the goal of a classless society.
Real Accounting Fraud	Article from The Free Market
Socialism and Capitalism	The Bible and Socialism, Moral Defense of Capitalism
Money and Wealth	We are responsible to be a good steward of the wealth God gives us to manage.
Poverty	Some of the root causes of poverty are government, social and religious systems.
Liberation Theology	Liberation theology is an ideology promoted by people trained in Marxism. True liberation theology delivers people from tyranny, poverty and sin.
The Worldview of the Religious Left
The Religious Left	Christians ought to care about poverty and oppression. People who hold differing economic and social theories propose very different approaches and solutions to these problems.
Representatives of the Evangelical Left	Discussion of the differences between evangelical liberals and conservatives.
The Christian Worldview and the Philosophy of Law
Inflation of Rights	Guest Lecturer, Alejandro Moreno-Morrison discussing the inflation of rights.
Legal Positivism	Guest Lecturer, Alejandro Moreno-Morrison discusses legal positivism.
The Christian Worldview and Environmentalism
Environmentalism Overview	A balanced approach toward environmentalism is needed because it can be a serious threat to individual liberty.
Types of Pollution	Discussion of how people work in a capitalistic system to address environmental concerns.
Philosophy of Education and the Christian Worldview
Problems with Public Education	The public school system in the United States has fostered functional illiteracy, cultural illiteracy, and moral/spiritual illiteracy.
A Possible Solution	Discussion of the pros and cons of setting up a voucher system to fund the education system.

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