Part one in the seven-part series War and The Christian Worldview
Grand Canyon University integrates a Christian worldview into our curriculum and classroom discussions. We look at global events from a biblical perspective and have created a video series to help understand the war in Ukraine.
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Below is a transcript of War and the Christian Worldview, episode 1, an introduction:
Welcome to the War and Christian Worldview video series. My name is Dr. Jacob Hicks. I'm an online instructor in the College of Theology and I teach Systematic Theology, Christian Worldview and Christian History courses. Before we get started today, I did want to mention a little bit about what a worldview is. According to church planner, Tim Keller, a worldview is the comprehensive perspective from which we interpret all of reality, or you might be able to think of it as a lens or a pair of glasses through which we see and understand the world around us.
So, keep that in mind as we go through this video series process. Now, on Thursday, February 24th of this year, as we all know, the Russians, as commanded by President Vladimir Putin launched an all-out war, an all-out invasion, upon the Ukrainian people. Untold amounts of suffering has occurred in just a little over a month span of time and it's been bewildering, heartbreaking, daunting. What are we to make of all this suffering that's been going on?
People have lost their homes. Millions of people have actually been made into refugees virtually overnight. Thousands upon thousands of civilians have been murdered. People are stuck in various cities like Mariupol starving to death without medicine. It's been devastating and, unfortunately, we don't know when this war is going to end. Now, we do a great job in our churches and our families as Christians talking about the importance of finances, the importance of marital ethics, various things like that, but we don't really have a comprehensive understanding of what war is. How should we understand the Russia-Ukraine war and how should we understand war in general?
In our fallen broken world, war is a reality.