Module 14: The 60s
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the fourteenth module of the History of Christianity 2 Course. In this section, we'll return to looking at the continuing church in the west. We'll resume examining the detrimental effects of the alternate worldviews that compete with Christianity for societal influence. This module will cover the worldviews and influences that culminated in the massive societal changes that happened as a result of those worldviews in the 1960s. This module will cover those worldviews, the changes they caused, the consequences in various parts of society, and the response God's church made to those changes and consequences.
This module will help you to understand the society we live in by understanding some major influences on current society which came to a climax in the 60s, and the results that came out of those influences. The student will be exposed to the underlying worldviews and how they exercised influence as expressed in the social changes of the 60s and how they changed much of western society. The student will be able to consider the result of these alternate worldviews, including contrast with the influence of Christianity.
The student will be exposed to different worldviews and their results in various aspects of society, and have opportunity to evaluate these various principles, approaches, ideas, mindsets, and practice, and the lessons that can be learned from them. This module will also aid the student to work through how the lessons learned are applicable in their own life and ministry.
Introductory Scenario
Imagine that a strange man offers you a magic
potion he promises will make you feel good. You remember your parents warned you against taking strange potions from strange men. But all your peers say the potion makes them feel great. And you have recognized that your parents are not as cool
as you once thought they were. How can you decide what to do? Will you trust the voices of tradition or the voices calling for cool
new ways? How will you decide? What standards can you use to decide? How can you weigh the short-term results against the long-term results? Please consider these questions and be watching for material that will help you answer them as you work through this module.
Module Objectives and Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this module, the student will:
- Understand the alternate worldviews that caused the social changes that happened in the 60s.
- Understand the history of the 60s and the variety of social changes that happened and the various consequences in society and in the church.
- Describe the responses the church made to the changes of the 60s, including the influential leaders and ministries, and their results.
- Evaluate the alternate worldviews prevalent in the 60s, their consequences, and the church's response, and the lessons that can be learned from the various approaches.
- Place the major events and people of these movements in a general chronology.
Instruction Guides
In this section, you'll find links to important instructional documents for this module. Click the following links to open each document. There is a set of instructions for individual study and a document for group study.
Lecture Content
In this section, you will find the video lectures for the 60s module. They are designed to be watched in order, but each video should make sense on its own. Click each banner to open access to each video. There are also links with each video if you prefer to watch on the Rumble or YouTube interface or download just the audio to listen offline.
If I were the devil
Christian Manifesto
Reviews
In this section, you will find the review slides from the course lectures for module 8. This is a convenient way to view and review the summaries for each lecture. Click the banner to open the slide show.
Click the prev.
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buttons (bottom right of the slide) to move through the slides. You can also click on any thumbnail to go directly to that slide.
Discussion/Reflection/Essay Questions
This section contains questions for further thought and discussion from Module 14. It is recommended that you take time to think through these issues in order to thoroughly grasp the significance and explore the application of the material you are learning. These questions can also be used as essay questions in a classroom setting exam. Below, you will find links to the Response and Application Reflection Instructions for Individuals, and the Response and Application Discussion Instructions for Groups. And you will find a link to the detailed question document for this module. Or Click the banner below to view the questions in a simplified format.
The following questions are for your thoughtful consideration and discussion:
- Describe the mindset of the 60s counter-culture. How did that mindset influence events in the 60s? What can you learn from this? How does it apply?
- What are the long term results of the changes of the 60s? What was good and/or bad? Why? What have you learned? How will you apply it?
- What issues from the 60s stuck out to you? Why? What changed in that decade? How does this apply?
- How can the church address the issues discussed in this module? What can we do as a congregation? What will you do personally?
- How have the changes of the 60s influenced our culture and/or our church? How should we respond?
- How did the church respond to the changes of the 60s? What is your evaluation of these responses? How does this apply?
- How did God respond to the events of the 60s? How can you participate in God's work today?
- How did the 60s influence your current church? What is your evaluation & application?
- What else did you learn? How does it apply?
(Optional) Timeline - Part 8
This section contains instructions for an optional Timeline activity to be constructed over all sixteen modules. Below is a link to the detailed instructions for this activity.
Step fourteen of the Timeline should include the following information:
- Any significant events, ideas, and people from the romantic worldviews that led up to the 60s.
- Any significant events, ideas, people, and approaches that represent the dramatic social changes of the 60s.
- Any significant events, ideas, people, and approaches that represent the church's response to the dramatic changes of the 60s.
- Any significant writings from these movements, and the ideas, doctrines, and approaches which they represent, and the impact they had.
(Optional) Principles Chart - Part 8
This section contains instructions for an optional Principles Chart activity to be constructed over all sixteen modules. Below is a link to the detailed instructions for this activity.
Step fourteen of the Principles chart will add any important principles noted from the alternate worldviews, the resulting social changes of the 60s, the consequences that came from these changes, the response of the church to those changes and consequences, and how those principles can be applied.
It is suggested that the student begin this activity before watching the Guiding Principles
portion of the lecture. Then the student may supplement their work after learning additional insights from the Guiding Principles.
(Optional) Term Project Organization & Writing
The student will continue researching their chosen topic for their term project, and organizing the material they have found. The student should also continue writing (or otherwise creating their presentation, depending on their chosen means of communication) the first draft of their term project. Based on the organization of the material, based on their research, the student should continue communicating what they have learned, as well as the principles they gained from the historical data, and how it applies to current life and ministry.
Below is a link to detailed instructions for the entire project.
Primary Source Reading
This section contains instructions and resources for the Primary Source Reading activity. The student should read a minimum of 10-20 pages from a primary resource or resources discussed in this module's lecture and write or discuss a brief response to their reading. Below is a link to detailed instructions for the Primary Source Reading, which contain a list of recommended resources, by module. And click the banner below to access a list of recommended resources with links to where they may be found.
The following is a list of the recommended primary sources for this module. This list contains links to the resources in print and/or online format. These links may change, so feel free to search for other sources for these same titles. In addition, please do not feel you are limited only to this list. Feel free to choose from any primary source from the period and topic covered in this module:
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America: To Pray or Not To Pray,Print ISBN : 978-0925279002
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The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America,Print ISBN : 978-1893554306
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The Closing of the American Mind,Print ISBN : 978-1451683202Online : iwcenglish1.typepad.com
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The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How it Changed America Forever,Print ISBN : 978-0830848591
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Up From Slavery,Print ISBN : 978-0451531476, 978-0140390513, or 978-0679640141Online : archive.org, pinkmonkey.com, unc.edu, or gutenberg.org
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,Print ISBN : 978-0451529947, or 978-0743487771Online : ibiblio.org, archive.org, gutenberg.org, or pdfcorner.com
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice,Print ISBN : 978-0684864631Online : hoover.org
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Discrimination and Disparities,Print ISBN : 978-1541645639
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A Conflict of Visions,Print ISBN : 978-0465002054
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Race and Culture: A World View,Print ISBN : 978-0465067978
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals,Print ISBN : 978-1594031434Online : joaomordomo.com
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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy,Print ISBN : 978-0465089956Online : kupdf.net
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Intellectuals and Race,Print ISBN : 978-0465058723Online : archive.org
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Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?,Print ISBN : 978-0688062699
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Affirmative Action Around the World,Print ISBN : 978-0300107753Online : hoover.org
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Lessons from the Least of These: The Woodson Principles,Print ISBN : 978-1642936476
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The Cross of Christ,Print ISBN : 9780830839100, or 978-1789742893
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Basic Christianity,Print ISBN : 978-0802875518, or 978-0830848539
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Between Two Worlds,Print ISBN : 978-0802875525
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Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life,Print ISBN : 978-0830834082Online : joaomordomo.com
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Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure,Print ISBN : 978-0802813879Online : monergism.com, or hcf-india.org
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Preaching and Preachers,Print ISBN : 978-0310331292Online : agathonlibrary.com
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The Plight of Man and the Power of God,Print ISBN : 978-1845507367Online : monergism.com
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Knowing God,Print ISBN : 978-0842339605, or 978-1433569548Online : tyndale.com
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Fundamentalism
and the Word of God,Print ISBN : 978-0802811479 -
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God,Print ISBN : 978-0830837991Online : archive.org
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Concise Theology,Print ISBN : 978-0842339605, or 978-1433569548Online : tyndale.com
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What Did the Cross Achieve? The Logic of Penal Substitution,Print ISBN : 978-1433590504Online : thirdmill.org, tyndalebulletin.org, or archive.org
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A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life,Print ISBN : 978-1433578953
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In My Place Condemned He Stood,Print ISBN : 978-1433502002
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Rediscovering Holiness,Print ISBN : 978-1433572814
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God Has Spoken,Print ISBN : 978-0801071287
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Sola Fide: The Reformed Doctrine of Justification,Online : monergism.com
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Introductory Essay to John Owen’s Death of Death in the Death of Christ,Online : monergism.com, thespiritlife.net, or cloversites.com
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The C. S. Lewis Signature Classics,Online : 978-0062572547, or 978-0062572561
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Mere Christianity,Print ISBN : 978-0060652920, 978-0060731878, 978-0062572547, or 978-0060652883Online : archive.org, or ntslibrary.com
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The Abolition of Man,Print ISBN : 978-0060652944, 978-0062572547, or 978-0062572561Online : samizdat.qc.ca, or archive.org
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God in the Dock,Print ISBN : 978-0802871831Online : alor.org
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The Weight of Glory,Print ISBN : 978-0060653200Online : archive.org, or joaomordomo.com
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The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer,Print ISBN : 978-0891073314
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The Francis Schaeffer Trilogy,Print ISBN : 978-0891075615
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The God Who is There,Print ISBN : 978-0830848553
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Escape From Reason,Print ISBN : 978-0830834051Online : hcf-india.org
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He is There and He is Not Silent,Print ISBN : 978-0842314138, or 978-1433569531Online : tyndale.com
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How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture,Print ISBN : 978-1433576911
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True Spirituality,Print ISBN : 978-0842373517, or 978-1433569524Online : hcf-india.org
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A Christian Manifesto,Print ISBN : 978-1581346923Online : archive.org
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The Mark of the Christian,Print ISBN : 978-0830834075Online : francisschaefferstudies.org, hcf-india.org, or gracecovpca.com
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The Great Evangelical Disaster,Print ISBN : 978-0891073086
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Art and the Bible,Print ISBN : 978-0830834013
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Whatever Happened to the Human Race?,Print ISBN : 978-1433576997, or 978-0891072911
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The Jesus Movement,Print ISBN : 978-0340161258
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The Jesus Generation,Print ISBN : 978-0340161845
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The Cross and the Switchblade,Print ISBN : 978-0515090253, or 978-0800798796
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The Hollywood Free Paper: Digital Archives,Online : oclc.org
Review Quiz
This section is a link to a review quiz to test your understanding of the objective material for Module 14. By clicking the banner, you will be taken to a series of questions, in random order. Answer each question and then push the Submit
button to check your answers. Every question must be answered before you can submit the quiz. At the end, you will be shown your score for the entire quiz. The quiz will be different each time, so feel free to take it more than once. Click the banner to begin the quiz.
Here is a review quiz for the material covered in this module's lectures. Click the button next to the best answer for each question, or drag each term to its best definition. Then press the button at the bottom to see if your answers are correct.
Module Completed!
Congratulations, you have reached the end of the fourteenth module. I hope that you have found it rewarding and have noticed personal growth.
I encourage you to continue on the next module as soon as is convenient. The button below will take you to Module 15.
