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Christian Worldview: Living the Story
Instructor: John Cunningham
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Course Description
What we need for the moment is not so much a body of belief as a body of people familiarized with certain ideas.
C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet, Chapter 22, p. 154
This course seeks to inculcate a learning, loving and living of the Christian story. We will seek to promote a thoughtful engagement of the history of God's redemption of His people (and all things) in terms of the biblical metanarrative that may be schematized in terms of Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Consummation. So, in many ways, this course could be conceived as an extended reflection on the opening chapters of the book of Genesis.
It is assumed that people live by coherent stories, and that a Christianity developed in terms of isolated doctrinal truths will be too thin to compete with other compelling stories (or worldviews) in our culture. The aim is to engage life beyond the level of bumper-sticker theology and random scriptural proof-texts. Since this course seeks to develop categories of biblical thinking, it is in many ways an introduction to the art of theological reflection.
In all of this the intention is to prepare the student for practical, lived Christianity — in the marketplace, not just the ivory tower.
John Cunningham is a pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Va. and a Ph.D. candidate in Theology, Ethics, and Culture at the University of Virginia. His dissertation is on theological conceptions of beauty, and will look at the thought of Jonathan Edwards. He holds a B.F.A. in Art, from Bowling Green State University, an M.A. in Biblical Counseling from Colorado Christian University, an M.A.R. (magna cum laude) in Philosophical Theology and Philosophy of Religion from Yale University. He has published on the philosophy of beauty and on conceptions of the self. John sees his varied academic interests in art, aesthetics, counseling, philosophy, and theology as centering in the question of humanness in relation to God and the world.
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