Worldview Cohort

Classes will meet at 6:00 PM EST on Sunday evenings for 75 minutes (Lecture and Q&A) *Dates and times could change.

Worldview Online Cohort

Class Syllabus & Schedule

5 Questions that Form a Worldview

June 9

  • Origin
  • Morality
  • Identity
  • Purpose
  • Destiny

Tests for Truth & Reality

June 16

  • A test for falsity
  • A test for truth
  • Logical consistency
  • Empirical adequacy
  • Experiential relevance


5 Tests for Credibility

June 23

  • Historical basis
  • Community basis
  • Experiential basis
  • Pragmatic basis
  • Cosmic/Metaphysic basis


6 Areas for a Persuasive Worldview

June 30

  • Correspondence
  • Coherence
  • Explanatory power
  • Two extremes
  • Evidence
  • Refutation

4 Steps in Communicating a Worldview

July 14

  • Identification
  • Translation
  • Persuasion
  • Justification

Dialoguing with Skeptics

July 21

  • Listening is key
  • Asking the right questions
  • Resurrection data
  • Fruits and roots
  • The importance of Scripture

Required Textbooks:

The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog

James W. Sire

Street Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity's Toughest Questions

Gregory Koukl

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