Summit Lecture Series

Tolerance
"That's true for you, but not for me" "You can't legislate morality" "People should be able to decide for themselves" "You shouldn't force your views on other people" Statements like these are very prevalent in Western culture today, and it seems that there are no legitimate responses to such assertions. But Greg Koukl believes otherwise, and in this lecture he gives a logical refutation of such circular reasoning. In addition, he provides listeners with accurate and fair analyses of what he calls the “Myth of Neutrality” and the “Myth of Tolerance.” He then turns his attention to practical ways of dealing with these myths and then concludes by looking at and contrasting the current usage of the term “tolerance” with its actual meaning.

The Pluralist Game
Francis Beckwith examines self-refuting claims regarding the nature of truth. Using several illustrations, Beckwith equips the Christian to practice critical thinking skills in order to expose the fallacies of pluralistic claims.

The Meaning of Meaning
What is the meaning of meaning? Michael Bauman discusses two main concepts: ideas have consequences; bad ideas have bad consequences, and sloppy language makes sloppy thought possible. Bauman teaches students to think critically about beliefs that meaning is either author intent or reader interpretation.

Relativism
Have you ever been asked, who are you to judge? Responding to arguments of moral relativism, Francis Beckwith discusses the difference between moral claims and preference claims, how relativists defend their position using the two main arguments, disagreement and tolerance, and offers suggestions on how to respond to these claims.

Postmodernism 1
Everyone has heard that we live in a postmodern culture, but what does that even mean? This is a clear concise session on the basics of the postmodern worldview from both a historical and ideological perspective. Includes teaching on the key figures of postmodernism.

Postmodernism 2
Everyone has heard that we live in a postmodern culture, but what does that even mean? This is a clear concise session on the basics of the postmodern worldview from both a historical and ideological perspective. Includes teaching on the key figures of postmodernism.

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Truth & Consequences

Ideas Have Consequences
While there are significant disagreements among the various expressions of postmodernism there is a key belief that characterizes all of them: an acute awareness of our “situatedness” as humans. As I described in the previous article (“Ideas Have Histories: Where Postmodernism Came From”), postmoderns deny that there is any overarching story, or metanarrative, to the world. Therefore, we all come from a perspective, or bias, that is shaped by the culture, or the “little stories,” we inhabit. As Kevin Vanhoozer states...

Ideas Have Histories
Postmodernism comes in all kinds of shapes and expressions. This sort of variety can make it difficult to understand. Further, postmodernism resists categories and distinctions, and this makes it more difficult to nail down as a worldview. There is a larger intellectual history that must be understood in order to grasp the uniqueness and significance of postmodernism as a worldview.

What Does Postmodern Mean?
We live in a postmodern world. Or, so we're told. But what does this mean? On one level, postmodern is a word used to describe major changes in the underlying ways people think — especially the way people view truth and reality. Postmodern is a term of contrast which implies modern. But before modern, there was pre-modern. To understand postmodern, it helps to consider the main differences in the way each of the three "moderns" relate to truth and reality...

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