Small Group Study Guide

Here's a possible 6-week study guide for small groups to use while reading Un-American Activities: Countercultural Themes in Christianity based on a course Tom is teaching this Fall.

LIBERATION: COMMON HOPE IN A COMPLEX WORLD
A Senior University course offered by Tom Wilkens, Fall 2010

Week 1: Questions & issues for discussion
What are some differences between modernism and postmodernism, and why should anyone care?

What is the distinction between exegesis and hermeneutics, and why might it make a difference in understanding biblical literature?

Describe as well as you can these three approaches to the Bible: the approach of modernism, of postmodernism, and of fundamentalism. Which of them comes closest to your approach?

Do you find the perspective on life in the book – namely, life as pilgrimage – helpful and insight-producing or a useless artifice?

How well or inadequately do we communicate with our adult children about things that really matter?

Can Third World (developing-world) perspectives inform and assist First World (developed-world) people? If so, how? If not, why not?

Download the complete study guide - liberation.pdf.