Doing Justice and Loving Mercy: Compassion Ministries, Mentor's Guide, MG16

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D O I N G J U S T I C E A N D L O V I N G M E R C Y : C O M P A S S I O N M I N I S T R I E S

4. Technological sophistication and richness

5. Shifting, volatile ethical visions of the human good

6. Alternative religious visions and attempts at spirituality without God

B. “The Dimensions of Culture”

1. The Cognitive Dimension — “The knowledge shared by members of a group or society” (Paul Hiebert, Anthropological Insights for Missionaries , p. 30)

a. Worldview and conceptual frameworks: cultures as systems of relationships which compose and dictate what we consider to be possible and real

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b. Different “ -ologies ”

(1) Ontology – the study of being

(2) Cosmology – the study of creation

(3) Epistemology – the study of knowing

2. The Affective Dimension — “feelings people have, with their attitudes, notions of beauty, tastes in food and dress, likes and dislikes, and ways of enjoying themselves or experiencing sorrow” (Hiebert, p. 32)

3. The Evaluative Dimension — “values by which [a culture] judges human relationships to be moral or immoral”