Worldviews I: the Bible and Ancient Thought
More than 2,000 years ago the Greco-Roman Worldview dominated Western thought. It was out of this hostile atmosphere that the Judeo-Christian Worldview would emerge. Year I takes students on a journey through the ancient world in a comparative study of these two competing worldviews. Students read through the primary works of Homer, Plato, Socrates, Virgil, St. Augustine, and other noted philosophers to analyze the foundational assumptions that shaped Western Civilization.
 
Problem:
Oxford Dictionaries has selected “post-truth” as 2016’s international word of the year. This is the atmosphere of our culture. You can’t escape it. We are living in a culture which has replaced the Protestant Reformation view of Truth which was considered absolute, universal, and objective with the Post-Modern view of opinions, emotions and personal beliefs. In the beginning of the 20th-Century, the secular culture had mocked Truth and pushed it from culture into the four corners of the Church. The thinking was that there is the Bible and then there is Truth.
 
Solution:
We must return to the Protestant Reformation view of Truth where Scripture is understood to be without error in whatever subject it speaks and is true for all people, in all cultures, throughout all time.