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    Responsible Thinking

    • “Then we must no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every
    wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking
    the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is,
    Christ.” Ephesians 4:14-15
    • “Then we must no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every
    wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking
    the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is,
    Christ.” Ephesians 4:14-15

    • What sources of information are there in your lives? How do you get your opinions and thoughts about
    stuff? How do you decided what is good and bad from all the stuff you hear/see/read etc.?
    Ways of Thinking (that might not be helpful)
    • Relativism
    • Goodness is subjective, a matter of individual perception, each person has
    their own truth.
    • When could this be a helpful way of thinking? When is it not helpful?
    Ways of Thinking (that might not be helpful)
    • Relativism
    • Goodness is subjective, a matter of individual perception, each person has
    their own truth.
    • When could this be a helpful way of thinking? When is it not helpful?

    • Rationalism
    • Goodness is purely objective, it can be known by reason alone, there is only
    one truth in every situation.
    • When could this be a helpful way of thinking? When is it not helpful?
    Ways of Thinking (that might not be helpful)
    • Relativism
    • Goodness is subjective, a matter of individual perception, each person has their own truth.
    • When could this be a helpful way of thinking? When is it not helpful?

    • Rationalism
    • Goodness is purely objective, it can be known by reason alone, there is only one truth in
    every situation.
    • When could this be a helpful way of thinking? When is it not helpful?

    • Responsible Thinking challenges the extremity and exclusivity of both –


    embracing both objective tangible truth and subjective intangible truth.
    Responsible Thinking
    • Key traits
    • Engage in conversation with open minds
    • Tolerance – Genuinely listen to someone’s viewpoint and truly try to understand their
    position and where they are coming from, and recognise the good stuff in what they say,
    even if we ultimately disagree.
    • E.g. “I truly understand that you see animals as equal inhabitants of the earth as humans, and
    see their needless suffering as barbaric, and it’s awesome you have so much compassion and
    care for creation, but I still don’t want to be vegetarian”
    • Fairness – engage with the best version of someone’s viewpoint, as we would like
    someone to come to our views generously, we need to come to other’s views generously.
    We have to be clear, open, accurate, and honest as we discuss our views and other’s.
    • E.g. “You make some really good points about the economic and environmental costs of
    eating meat, and honestly I think you are right and I don’t have any evidence countering that,
    however, I think that cost is worth the health benefits of eating a measured amount of meat.”
    Responsible Thinking
    Moral Foundation Theory

    Care/Harm Fairness/Cheating Loyalty/Betrayal

    Authority/Subversion Sanctity/Degradation Liberty/Oppression


    Responsible Thinking
    • 1. Identify a controversial ethical or social issue

    • 2. What facts do you know about the issue?

    • 3. Respond to the following, first from a Christian point of view, and


    second, from an alternative point of view e.g. atheist, typical Aussie,
    liberal, conservative, Muslim, materialist etc.
    • a. What do they believe about this issue?
    • b. How do their feelings or emotions affect their response to this issue?
    Black Lives Matter
    • 1. Which article did you read?
    • 2. What view did the author hold that was relevant to
    the issue?
    • 3. What was YOUR emotional response to the article?
    Choose one or more of the emotions from this list to
    describe your emotion
    • 4. Identify what was "true, noble, right, pure, lovely,
    admirable and excellent or praiseworthy" in what you
    read?

    • Identify two (2) theological ideas included in the article


    you read.

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