| Secular | Christian |
| The individual emphasised | The individual in community |
| Mankind is autonomous | Mankind is other person centred |
| Naturalism is assumed | Supernaturalism is assumed |
| Truth is relative, it all depends | Truth is universal |
| There are many paths | There is one path |
| Good and bad is relative | Good and evil are absolutes |
| Mankind has evolved | Mankind was created |
| Mankind is basically good | Mankind is fallen |
| Mankind is progressing | Mankind is rebelling, under judgment |
| Heterosexuality is not normative | Heterosexuality is normative |
| Marriage is consensual and pluriform | Marriage is heterosexual/ normative |
| Reason is final | Revelation is final |
| Religion is private | Religion is also public |
| The State is neutral | The State is non-neutral |
Acknowledgements:
Professor Rex Adhar
SESSION 2 Genesis I The Birth of Culture
Culture
Nature is a given: Culture describes development of nature.
Our development skills go back to _____________:
- We are crowned with ________ and ________ as those in God’s image
- Nature is a creation – it ________ to God
- We are to inhabit it, rule it together, for our ________ and his ________
- Within the ________ of creation stands the moral challenge of __________ and the spiritual reality of our relationship with God
- The naming of the ________ – a hint of what may have been.
Failure
Adam is our ____________ Head; Adam and Eve our first ___________.
A moral and spiritual ________, so that at each point distorted by sin:
- Twisted __________ with God, with each other and with the creation
- The Consequences –
- ___________
- ___________
- ___________
- ___________
- The Continuity
- ___________ – sex and birth; marriage
- ___________
- ___________ – cities, trades, arts, science
Future
We live __________, with a new Head, Jesus Christ, living in this world as those who belong to the next. What now of our cultural task?
- Work and its products are a __________, not an __________
- We offer our work as __________
- Work provides us with an opportunity to _______________
- Work is not the means of __________, __________ or __________
- Work is __________ to paid employment
- We __________ work, but we do not __________ work
Conclusion: the folly of ______________
SESSION 3 Genesis II The Gift of Community
Aloneness
Was he __________?
Did it matter?
Mateship
__________ was this gift?
__________ was this gift?
__________ was this gift?
Bonding
The mandate to rule was __________ ___________ to both
The __________ of this relationship even over the closest human bond
The means of ________ in the exclusive and reciprocal sexual bond
The ________________ in the relationship of ‘separates’ and the children of both
Alienation
The __________ of order in the serpent’s approach to Eve
The relational ____________ in the experience of the world and of others
The coming of death is the pain of ___________
Reconciliation
The __________ comes
______ saves – not tolerance
______ gives true freedom
________ works through love
Thus:
__________ is not everything – __________ is everything
__________ is everywhere – __________ is God’s power
___________ really matter – __________ really matters
SESSION 4 Genesis III The Promise of Justice
Closure
___________
___________
__________
Meaning
Making a difference – our longing to __________
The destruction of ___________
Sin
A category without _________
A _____________ reflection
A __________which undoes us
Can you be __________?
Salvation
The __________ of God
The __________ of God
The __________ of God
The __________ of God
Hope
The __________ of promises
The birth of ______, _______ and ______
Utopianism and Human Life
___________
___________
SESSION 5 Genesis IV The Power of Words
Babel then and now
Cultural ______
The idolatrous ________
The desire for _________
The __________ of God on their speech
Words
Good words of ________, ________ and ________, _____ and ________, ________
Evil words of _________ and _______, of ______, of ______, of _________
Of ________, of _______ and _______, of _______, of _______, of _________, of _________
The word
Who _________
Who _________
Who _________
Who _________
Who _________
Who _________
My words
In the _________
In the _________
In the _________
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