Reimagining Christian Formation as Growth in Wisdom
SIMON P. KENNEDY
Against Worldview: Reimagining Christian Formation as Growth in Wisdom
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How Did We Get Here? The History of Christian Worldview
How Do We Learn? Education as a Building Project
What About Sophia? Education as Growing in Wisdom
When Do We Arrive? Reaching for Reality
Conclusion: Wisdom and Worldview
CW Herman Bavinck, Christian Worldview, trans. Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, James Eglinton, and Cory C. Brock (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2019).
PoR Herman Bavinck, Philosophy of Revelation: A New Annotated Edition, trans. Cory Brock and Nathaniel Gray Sutanto (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2018).
PW J. H. Bavinck, Personality and Worldview, trans. and ed. James Eglinton (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2023).
RD Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, ed. John Bolt, trans. John Vriend. Volume 1: Prolegomena (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003); Volume 2: God and Creation (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004); Volume 3: Sin and Salvation in Christ (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006); Volume 4: Holy Spirit, Church, and New Creation (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008).
He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
O Lord, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights; Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness, and true holiness, to thy honor and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.
The Collect, First Sunday in Lent, Book of Common Prayer
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About Against Worldview: Reimagining Christian Formation as Growth in WisdomReframing the lenses of Christian worldview In Against Worldview: Reimagining Christian Formation as Growth in Wisdom, Simon P. Kennedy challenges the conventions of Christian worldview education and provides a better way. Although the current concept of Christian worldview appears incontestable, it rests upon shaky philosophical foundations, fails to account for the complexities of how we interact with the world, and may even undermine the curiosity essential for true learning. But rather than shattering the lenses of Christian worldview, Kennedy reframes worldview around wisdom. A biblical worldview is not downloaded all at once. It is cultivated piece by piece, as we learn about God, his world, and ourselves. Christian education is an organic process of learning to wisely nurture a biblical worldview. |
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