In this session, we finished up Book I. I did a quick overview of chapters 1-3 and then we watched the video. Eric's parts were just fine (hate it that I never got to get into Univ), and Jerry Root's session is very good - one of the best I think. He was to cover ch. 4 (ch. 5 is to be done as a personal study) and hit the main points well. His stories were great examples of using Lewis' apologetic.
For discussion afterwards, I used Brown's questions from the companion book. I didn't use all of them; just the ones that seemed to fit the way our discussion was going. There were many comments about our attitude and approach in dealing with the world. We talked about the prevelance of materialism in our culture, one person advocating that most people here are unaware of their syncretism of shallow materialism and sentimentality.
We had Kohlberg's stages of moral development brought up, which I thought was a very interesting reference. It got me thinking about how God has made us as moral beings and, with his image still somewhat present, we should show patterns of development in moral awareness. However, being fallen, we are going to develop somewhat askew, as some would say Kohlberg himself was a bit askew in his results. Considering how popular Kholberg's theory is, I think it would be profitable to spend more time considering it and relating it to Lewis' Law of Human Nature, if only for apologetic reasons.
For discussion afterwards, I used Brown's questions from the companion book. I didn't use all of them; just the ones that seemed to fit the way our discussion was going. There were many comments about our attitude and approach in dealing with the world. We talked about the prevelance of materialism in our culture, one person advocating that most people here are unaware of their syncretism of shallow materialism and sentimentality.
We had Kohlberg's stages of moral development brought up, which I thought was a very interesting reference. It got me thinking about how God has made us as moral beings and, with his image still somewhat present, we should show patterns of development in moral awareness. However, being fallen, we are going to develop somewhat askew, as some would say Kohlberg himself was a bit askew in his results. Considering how popular Kholberg's theory is, I think it would be profitable to spend more time considering it and relating it to Lewis' Law of Human Nature, if only for apologetic reasons.
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