World Religions Week 9 - Paganism

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World Religions

The Gospel and Friendship in a Pluralistic Suburb

What Do You Know?

Do ghost stories have a place in Christianity?

What do you know about Pagans?

Do you have any experience with Paganism?

What questions do you have about Paganism?

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Our “Mars Hill” Methodology

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• A basic introduction to the faith’s worldview

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• Areas of agreement between that faith and Orthodox Christian theology and practice

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• Areas of disagreement between that faith and Orthodox Christian theology and practice

GOAL: To equip you to build a truth-seeking relationship with someone of another faith.

Paganism

Every Day Magic

Pre-History

Pre-History

Pre-History

History

Modernity

Paganism

Paganism Today

Pagans

Wiccans Pantheists

Satanists

Sacred Text: Important Authors

Gardner, Modern Witchcraft

Margot Adler

Jeffrey Russell

Dana Eilers

Sacred Text: Book of Shadows

Paganism Today

Pre-Modernism

Modernism

Paganism Today

Humanism

Deism

Beliefs: A Supernatural World

Beliefs: Gods and Goddesses

Pantheism Dualism Polytheis

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Beliefs: The God and Goddess

Beliefs: Individual Freedom

Beliefs: Magic

My Will

Key Beliefs: The Five Elements

Beliefs: Reincarnation

Reincarnation

and

Mediums

Beliefs: Morality

Key Beliefs: Wheel of the YearSamha

inOctobe

r 31

YuleWinter Solstice

ImbolcFebruar

y

OstaraSpring Equino

x

Beltane

May Day

LithaSumme

r Solstic

e

Lammas

August 1

MabonAutum

n Equino

x

Anti-Christian

Gender

Institution

Hierarchy

Morality

Spiritual Encounters

Building Bridges to Paganism

A Supernatural World

The Value of Nature

Devotion to God(s)

Spiritual Practices

Where is God?

Where Christianity and Paganism Disagree

Pantheism

Sustaine

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Where Christianity and Paganism Disagree

Where is God?

Gender of God

Where Christianity and Paganism Disagree

The Creator does not have gender.

Gender is for creatures

Where Christianity and Atheism Disagree

Where is God?

What Gender is God?

Nature of People

Where Christianity and Paganism Disagree

Basically Good

Fallen

Where Christianity and Paganism Disagree

Where is God?

What Gender is God?

Nature of People

What to do with Spirits

Where Christianity and Paganism Disagree

Where Christianity and Paganism Disagree

Where is God?

What Gender is God?

Nature of People

What to do with Spirits

Where Christianity and Paganism Disagree

How Not to Build a Friendship

Wicca is not Devil Worship

Church has often been painful

Personal Liberty is very important

Religious Experiences are valuable

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