Understanding the Times

A Survey of Competing Worldviews

This class, based on the curriculum from Summit Ministries, Learn about the religions of the world, and how those religions have impacted the culture and changed our views. Learn how to think about the world from a Christian perspective.

Taught by Major Rose, this class teaches students how to look at the world through the lens of the Bible and God’s precepts.

Understanding the Times is a classic invitation to the study of worldviews, a guided tour of the answers to life’s ultimate questions.

It examines the six most prominent worldviews influencing the world today (Christianity, Islam, Secularism, Marxism, New Spirituality, and Postmodernism), and it shows how their influence manifests in the key academic disciplines operating in America’s institutions of higher learning today (Theology, Philosophy, Ethics, Biology, Psychology, Sociology, Law, Politics, Economics and History).

Cathy Duffey reviews Understanding the Times HERE

If we help students master the world of ideas, they will be significantly less likely to be taken captive by false philosophies (Colossians 2:8) and significantly more likely to understand the times in which they live and know how to be responsible citizens  (1Chronicles 12:32).

So, join the hundreds of classrooms and families across the country (and around the globe!) equipping students to Understand the Times.

Resources for Students

Students have access to an online app while taking this course. In addition to providing the text in electronic form, it includes a detailed class syllabus (which Major Rose can update throughout the year) and videos for each class period. 

The hardcover text and app fee for each student are purchased by the teacher.