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More Than a Generation Gap: Cultural Trends and Changing
Worldviews
Dr. Jolene ErlacherAGME Team Weekend
Friday, July 31st
Overview of the History of Western Civilization
European Renaissance (1300s-
1500s)Protestant
Reformation(1500s)
Age of Enlightenment or Reason (1700s)
Industrial Revolution (1750-early 1800s)
Post-Modernism (1900s)
*Deconstruction, relativism, post-
structuralism
Overview of the History of Western Civilization
European Renaissance (1300s-
1500s)Protestant
Reformation(1500s)
Age of Enlightenment or Reason (1700s)
Industrial Revolution (1750-early 1800s)
Post-Modernism (1900s)
*Deconstruction, relativism, post-
structuralism
David Harvey explained the modern era centered on the enlightenment project of
the mid-18th century. “The idea was to use the accumulation of knowledge
generated by many individuals working freely and creatively for the pursuit of
human emancipation and the enrichment of daily life.” The promise of scientific domination of nature included freedom
from scarcity and want.
Overview of the History of Western Civilization
European Renaissance (1300s-
1500s)Protestant
Reformation(1500s)
Age of Enlightenment or Reason (1700s)
Industrial Revolution (1750-early 1800s)
Post-Modernism (1900s)
*Deconstruction, relativism, post-
structuralism
Postmodern philosophers applied theories of deconstruction to the world as a whole,
attacking the concepts of universal meaning that existed under modernism. The beliefs in a timeless, absolute truth collapsed under postmodern thought.
Significant changes emerging from postmodernism are the values of all truth
as absolute or valid, community over individualism, and truth being
determined in the contexts of specific communities.
Peter Drucker indicated this period we are now experiencing is but a transition, and will not be permanent. “What will emerge next, we cannot know: we can only hope and pray. Perhaps nothing beyond stoic resignation? Perhaps a
rebirth of traditional religion, addressing itself to the needs and challenges of the
person in the knowledge society?”
Cultural Trends:
Tolerance and Truth
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the
only way, it does not exist.”
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Tolerancea : sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's ownb : the act of allowing something Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Cultural tolerance in our society today is promoted as respect and
understanding, but it also demands acceptance and
affirmation
“[This postmodern view] is that every individual’s beliefs, values, lifestyle and
perception of truth……claims are equal…there is no hierarchy of truth. Your beliefs and my beliefs are
equal and all truth is relative.” -Thomas A. Helmbock
“Truth is produced, not found.”
-Hayden White Professor at the University of
California at Santa Cruz
“No right or wrong answer exists when values are at stake.”
Economics Today and Tomorrow High School text book
Emerging worldview of young adults: • No absolute truth• Tolerance of all beliefs• Respect for everyone’s experience
(collective)• Entitled to do things our way
(individual)
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
--G. K. Chesterton
“Truth has ceased to be a relationship between a statement and reality and has become a judgment” –Josh McDowell
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and
with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.“ Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in
your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother,
‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You
hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck
from your brother’s eye.
Matthew 7:1-5
An Intolerant Gospel?
“I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through
me.”
--Jesus in John 14:6 (ESV)
“At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, ‘Yet once more I will
shake not only the earth but also the heavens.’ This phrase, ‘Yet once more,’ indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is,
things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, let us be grateful for receiving a
kingdom that cannot be shaken.” --Hebrews 12:26-28
Cultural Shift: A Season of Shaking
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