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Advanced Worldview Analysis

By studying Advanced Worldview Analysis, you'll learn to dissect various worldviews and understand the importance of engaging with culture, ultimately becoming a more effective communicator of your own beliefs.
Number of lessons: 24
Total length: 11 hours and 16 minutes
format: Audio
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About This Class

In this class, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of advanced worldview analysis, starting with an introduction to the concept of a worldview and its importance. You will explore the various components that make up a worldview, including epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and anthropology. The course delves into analyzing different worldviews such as theism, deism, naturalism, nihilism, and existentialism. Finally, you will learn about the role of the church and individual believers in engaging with culture and responding to worldview challenges, as well as strategies for effective communication of your own worldview.

About the Professor

Ronald Nash

Evangelical Baptist Philosopher and Apologist
Ronald Nash

Lessons

  • 1. Introduction to Advanced Worldview Analysis

    Discussion of the content of a worldview and the criteria used to evaluate worldviews.

  • 2. Liberalism and Conservatism

    Discussion of liberalism and conservatism, and statism and anti-statism.

  • 3. Political Positions

    Political systems fall along a continuum between the extremes of anarchism and totalitarianism.

  • 4. Statism and Anti-statism

    People favoring statism support extensive government involvement in education and social programs.

  • 5. Evaluation of Statism and Anti-statism

    From a biblical point of view, statism is evil.

  • 6. Justice

    Discussion of justice on an individual and corporate level.

  • 7. Capitalism and Socialism

    An economy based on capitalism has much less government involvement than an economy based on socialism.

  • 8. Interventionism

    Interventionism is a capitalistic economic system in which government gets involved to allow free exchange within a framework of laws.

  • 9. Defense of Capitalism

    Discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism.

  • 10. Economics | TH710-10

    Two basic concepts of economics are limited resources and the choices we make that reflect our values.

  • 11. Marxism

    Marxism is an economic system based on the idea of a class struggle with the goal of a classless society.

  • 12. Real Accounting Fraud

    Article from The Free Market

  • 13. Socialism and Capitalism

    The Bible and Socialism, Moral Defense of Capitalism

  • 14. Money and Wealth

    We are responsible to be a good steward of the wealth God gives us to manage.

  • 15. Poverty

    Some of the root causes of poverty are government, social and religious systems.

  • 16. Liberation Theology

    Liberation theology is an ideology promoted by people trained in Marxism. True liberation theology delivers people from tyranny, poverty and sin.

  • 17. 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.

  • 18. Representatives of the Evangelical Left

    Discussion of the differences between evangelical liberals and conservatives.

  • 19. Inflation of Rights

    Guest Lecturer, Alejandro Moreno-Morrison discussing the inflation of rights.

  • 20. Legal Positivism

    Guest Lecturer, Alejandro Moreno-Morrison discusses legal positivism.

  • 21. Environmentalism Overview

    A balanced approach toward environmentalism is needed because it can be a serious threat to individual liberty.

  • 22. Types of Pollution

    Discussion of how people work in a capitalistic system to address environmental concerns.

  • 23. Problems with Public Education

    The public school system in the United States has fostered functional illiteracy, cultural illiteracy, and moral/spiritual illiteracy.

  • 24. A Possible Solution

    Discussion of the pros and cons of setting up a voucher system to fund the education system.

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