Mobile Ed: CS101 Biblical Worldview and Critical Thinking (4 hour course)
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Overview
In CS101 Biblical Worldview and Critical Thinking, esteemed Christian theologian and philosopher John Frame explores what it means to think like a Christian. He introduces philosophy, discusses reason and how to become a better thinker, and describes what goes into a worldview. Throughout the course, Dr. Frame emphasizes that “philosophy is a form of spiritual warfare,” stressing the importance of thinking about the world in a way that reflects God.
Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and Course
Unit 1: Christian Philosophy and Thinking
- Introducing Philosophy
- Philosophy and Becoming a Better Thinker
Unit 2: Critical Thinking
- Learning How to Reason
- Reasoning and Persuasion
- Dealing with Self-Deception
- The Relationship between Reasoning and Feelings and Emotions
Unit 3: Worldview
- What Is a Worldview?
- God, Atheism, and Worldview
- The Circular Nature of Knowledge
- Presuppositions for Christian Thinking
Unit 4: Perspectival Method
- Major Divisions of Philosophy
- The Three Perspectives of Divine Lordship
- Understanding God Perspectivally
- Is Perspectivalism Relativist?
Unit 5: Metaphysics
- Metaphysics: The One and the Many
- Teleology
- Cause, Effect, and Science
- Miracles and the Supernatural
- Human Mind and Body
- Theistic Proofs: Is There a God?
Unit 6: Epistemology
- Epistemology: Three Schools of Thought
- How Do We Know What We Know?
- Typical Definition of Knowledge
- Radical Doubt
- How Can We Know God?
Unit 7: Ethics
- Ethics: Three Non-Christian Views and Biblical View
- Making Value Judgments
- Relationship between Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics
- Objections to Christian Ethics
- Love: The Highest Virtue
- Value and the Highest Good
Conclusion
- Conclusion to the Course
Product Details
- Title: CS101 Biblical Worldview and Critical Thinking
- Instructor: John Frame
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2018
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
- Courses: 1
- Video Hours: 4
Partially includedAbout John M. Frame
John M. Frame (b. 1939) is an American philosopher and a Calvinist theologian especially noted for his work in epistemology, presuppositional apologetics, systematic theology, and ethics. He is one of the foremost interpreters and critics of the thought of Cornelius Van Til. He is currently professor of systematic theology and philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando.
Getting the most out of Mobile Ed
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This course comes with an Activities resource that functions as a type of “workbook” for the course. This resource includes learning activities such as: places for you to respond to reflection questions, exercises that will challenge and show you how deepen your understanding of this course by using specific Logos tools and resources, tutorial videos on different features of Logos Bible Software, and links to relevant Logos guides and tools. A link to open the Activities resource is conveniently placed at the end of every segment.