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Would a corporate ethics or emotional intelligence employee training course from a healthy American company work aboard a Klingon "Bird of Prey" ship in Star Trek? Probably not. (Don't worry, you don't have to be a Trekkie to understand the thought experiment in today's video!)
That's because, whether we are aware of it or not, there is an assumed narrative structure in our culture that informs our ethical norms. But we bump up against a real problem in postmodernism with the claim that any transcultural, overarching guiding story is an attempt to colonize other cultures and that ethics can only be relativistic cultural guidelines . If this is true, would we every be able to say that particular ethical norms in the fictional Klingon or the ancient Spartan culture are wrong?
In my last conversation with John Vervaeke and Paul VanderKlay, John brought up a sincere concern about Christianity as a force of cultural assimilation. To use Star Trek lingo, does Christianity function like the Borg? Or do we need to distinguish between Christendom and The Way of Jesus? #culturaltheology #theologyofculture #startrek #scienceandfaith
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Ep 82: The Problem of Evil (Part 16)- Open Theism
Ep 81: The Problem of Evil (Part 15)- Process Theism | Creative Solution or A New Gnosticism?
Ep 80: Special Q&A Episode- Paul's Journey, Defining Meaning-Making, Mind Software, Hyper-Objects & More
Ep 79: Mind Software-How Culture Programs Your Values (Part 2)
Ep 78: Mind Software- How Culture Programs Your Values (Part 1)
Ep 77: Cosmic Spiritual Powers, Hyper-Objects, and C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy
Ep 76: Paul Vander Klay- Culture War. The Jordan Peterson Moment. Faith-Killing Dinosaurs. Vervaeke, Kierkegaard, Darwin, Barth
Ep 75: The Problem of Evil (Part 14)- Karl Barth | The Chaos, The Shadow, & the Hidden God
Ep 74: The Problem of Evil (Part 13)- Frankenstein, Dinosaurs, & Darwin in the 19th Century
Ep 73: Christ & The Culture War (don't just leave republican jesus for democrat jesus)
Ep 72: Dr. Russell Moore - Truth Beyond Culture War & Reading Hero Myths in Exile
Ep 71: Dr. Andrew Root - Secular Pastors? Why Ministry in the Meaning Crisis Is So Difficult
Ep 70: Everyone (Yes, even Richard Dawkins) Believes in God. "Does God Exist?" is Dead.
Ep 69: The Problem of Evil (Part 12)- Friedrich Schleiermacher & Evil as an Obstacle to "God-Consciousness"
Ep 68: How Theology Starts Revolutions & Why We Need to Train for What's to Come
Ep 67: The Problem of Evil (Part 11)- The Limits of Reason | Deism & Immanuel Kant
Ep 66: Dr. Dwight Hopkins- Cultural Theology & the Good News
Ep 65: The Problem of Evil (Part 10)- Is This the Best Possible World? Leibniz's Theodicy
Ep 64: Why Horror Films & Nihilistic Comedies like "Rick and Morty" Are on the Rise- with JR. Forasteros
Ep 63: When Statues Fall- The Battle of the Gods, Revisited
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