What's "worldview", the historical Adam, and secularism in Europe - BreakPoint Q&A
Breakpoint
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🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane discuss what a worldview is and if it can shelter racist sentiments. John gives a full explanation of worldview, and explains how the concept is both helpful and challenged in this cultural moment.
Then Shane asks John to explain how we know Adam is a historical figure. A listener writes in because a pastor he knows presents Adam as an idea inside Scripture.
To close, John explains an interesting trend in the United States where in some cases we're outpacing Europe in progressive actions. A listener asks for some explanation on the culture trends that are creating fertile soil for secular ideas.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Shane Morris, host of the Upstream podcast and one of the writers for Breakpoint. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm joined today as always by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the host of Breakpoint. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we're answering your questions about whether worldview as a concept can shelter racist sentiments. |
| 0:21.5 | Secularism in the U.S. versus Europe and the historical atom plus much, much more. |
| 0:27.7 | These questions were sparked by breakpoint commentaries, short courses, and the Colson Fellows program. |
| 0:33.2 | If you'd like to send us a question of your own to talk about here on the program, all you have to do is email us. The address is ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. John, I tease that |
| 0:43.2 | first one about whether worldview as a concept can be kind of a shelter for racist sentiments. |
| 0:49.0 | And this is an interesting question that emerges out of accusations you find commonly today in Christian discourse, especially |
| 0:55.9 | kind of liberal Christian discourse, about not just the term worldview, but this whole issue |
| 1:00.7 | of race and how we can confront it without punting to our biases. So this person asks an interesting |
| 1:07.1 | question based on an article. And this article, I won't have time, obviously, to read |
| 1:11.4 | through the article, but it's in Baptist News and we can link it in the show notes. This was kind of |
| 1:15.5 | the prompt for this listener's question. They write in, I'm an alumni of Summit Ministries, |
| 1:21.4 | where I first was introduced to the work of John Stone Street. And one of the core talking points |
| 1:26.1 | at Summit, as well as Breakpoint is the idea |
| 1:27.9 | of a Christian worldview, obviously. Over recent years, I've come to realize that Christians often |
| 1:33.4 | mean very different things when they speak of the biblical worldview. And thought this article |
| 1:38.4 | presented some interesting points to consider. I'm also noticing that many of my contemporaries |
| 1:43.3 | are becoming disenchanted with the idea |
| 1:45.6 | of worldview as being overly simplistic. And I thought this article might be worth engaging with |
| 1:50.7 | on some level. I'm wondering if you can provide a defense of the term worldview. Maybe you all have |
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