Advanced Worldview Analysis - Lesson 19

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

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

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

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

From a biblical point of view, statism is evil.

Discussion of justice on an individual and corporate level.

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

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

Discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism.

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

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

Article from The Free Market

The Bible and Socialism, Moral Defense of Capitalism

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

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

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

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.

Discussion of the differences between evangelical liberals and conservatives.

Guest Lecturer, Alejandro Moreno-Morrison discusses legal positivism.

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

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

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

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