Based on feedback from students, major assignments in the course Christian Worldview and Theology were upgraded to the following:
Personal Worldview Statement
The purpose of this assignment is to help you expand your Christian worldview to address the most popular arguments being used by contemporary atheist writers:
- Christianity is a divisive and oppressive force (Dawkins)
- Christianity is not a rational enterprise (Harris)
- Christianity is an illusion of an illusion (Hitchens)
- Christianity poisons everything (Hitchens)
- Christianity is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children. (Hitchens)
To complete this assignment, pick one of the points above and write a 750-1000 word “Personal Worldview Statement” that addresses it from a Christian worldview perspective.
Worldview Interviews
The purpose of this assignment is to help you gain a better understanding of the worldviews of unchurched persons.
To complete this assignment, complete a 2000-3000 word paper that analyzes five interviews with unchurched individuals based on Mark Bertrand’s four starting points of Christian thought (Rethinking Worldview, chapter 2). Here are the guidelines for your interviews and paper:
- Develop an assessment tool of up to eight questions that will help you engage an unchurched person in conversation about Bertrand’s four pillars.
- Administer your worldview assessment tool to no less than 5 individuals whom you know as unchurched.
- Organize your paper using the following sections: “My Interview Questions and Approach,” “The Interviews,” “What I Learned about Worldviews,” and “Outreach Lessons for the Church.”
Christian Worldview and Theology is a required course in Rockbridge Seminary’s Master of Divinity program and an elective for the Master of Ministry Leadership program. The course will be offered next during the October 2009 Term starting October 27.
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