Kingdom Chronicles, week 1
week 1: what is the goal of this class/conversation/discussion?
As always we invite comments, questions, criticisms, etc. in the comments area below, let’s talk!!!
- see the podcast below…
- click here to view this weeks presentation…
- some questions from our time….
>> how have you been influenced to think about your faith by the years 200AD-1400AD (a mere 1200 years)?
>> what does it mean to have a christian worldview?
links:
>> wikipedia link to : The Enlightenment
>> wikipedia link to : The Protestant Reformation
>> wikipedia link to : Worldview
>> HyperHistory Online Timeline Tool (kind of hard to navigate, but pretty cool )
story to journal/take some notes on…
“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the house in which he actually lived, not far from the old house of his fathers. Of the rest he took some and built a tower. But his friends coming perceived at once (without troubling to climb the steps) that these stones had formerly belonged to a more ancient building. So they pushed the tower over, with no little labour, in order to look for hidden carvings and inscriptions, or to discover whence the man’s distant forefathers had obtained their building material. Some suspecting a deposit of coal under the soil began to dig for it, and forgot even the stones. They all said: ‘This tower is most interesting.’ But they also said (after pushing it over): ‘What a muddle it is in!’ And even the man’s descendants, who might have been expected to consider what he had been about, were heard to murmur: ‘He is such an odd fellow! Imagine his using these old stones just to build a nonsensical tower! Why did not he restore the old house? He had no sense of proportion.’ But from the top of that tower the man had been able to look out upon the sea.” ~On the way earlier critics had treated the Beowulf poet’s work
notes:
>> we’ll have books available at our next meeting, 13 bucks, Church History in Plain Language
>> the tentative plan is to have our study over Labor Day…
>> bring your thoughts/reflection on the final slide/story that we shared and how you connect/disconnect from it.
>> the recording below isn’t the greatest…