Individualism and Collectivism

McRaney achieved to cover his purpose; the foundational elements, communication theories, and practical aids of personal evangelism. Also, appendixes are helpful to practice to personal testimonies, gospel illustrations, common objections, and more practical evangelism. (p. 235)

We’ve all know what it feels like: walking down the halls in middle school or high school while you feel like you’re being watched…analyzed…critiqued. It would almost seem like every person you passed would be silently judging you for what you’re wearing, how you applied your makeup, how you did in the last soccer game, or what they heard you did with Jonny. The passerby’s in the hallway would place you on the high-school-hierarchy-of-coolness scale based on superficial characteristics even before getting to know you. Adolescence is a time of learning and forming an identity but it’s also a time where you are constantly being watched and evaluated by your peers, sometimes even put down by physical or verbal means. Bullying has always been

Collectivism-> is basically when you think that values and the goals of the group and the common good over the goals of any one individual are the most beneficial. It stresses human interdependence and the importance of a collective, rather than the importance of separate individuals

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Analyse how Christian religious practices influence the lives of adherents. In your answer, refer to baptism.

Throughout Anthem the reader’s perspective on Collectivism is persuaded to be negative due to the author’s point of view. “Collectivism is the idea that the individual’s life belongs not to him but to the group or society of which he is merely a part, that he has no rights, and that he must sacrifice his values and goals for the group’s common good”(Biddle, Craig. "Collectivism vs. Individualism." The Objective Standard. 2015. Web. 25 Sept. 2015.) Rand depicts the evils and negativities of Collectivism by showing how they aren’t allowed to think for themselves. They aren’t allowed to do things alone, have personal values, and love is also outlawed. Another negative aspect Rand portrays within collectivism is that all men must be alike and look out for their brothers. “We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen.” (Rand 21).

Many people believe that that the motivation of the Christian church is to radically “change the world”. However, through his book To Change The World, James Davison Hunter explains how this common believe is a misconception. Rather, he shows readers that, from a sociological perspective, while Christians thrive in many areas of life by reaching others individually, they fundamentally components of creating cultural change.

The overall purpose of the Roland Allen’s book is to convey the dramatic differences between the methods of modern day missionary organizations

In the first chapter of “Christianity Rediscovered” by Vincent J. Donovan he is introducing us to the idea that missionaries now have a poor reputation due to their history. He says “History has offered the opportunity to deflect and distort the meaning of missionary work in every age”. For a long time a missionary was a person spreading the word of God and after years of doing so we have diminished many different beliefs, practices, cultures and history. At the time it was thought to be the right thing, to spread out and share the gospel to help people find meaning and acceptance. In today’s age a missionary is a lot of different things, in many cases it is more focused on the health and physical wellbeing of the people. Many people still share the gospel through missionary work, but in other cases it is more of a material aid. Donovan introduces the book as a voyage of discovery he wants us to put our normal beliefs aside to see his perspective of living a missionaries life and struggling with the fact of if you are helping or hurting.

In the book called Foolishness to the Greeks, Lesslie Newbigin focuses on how the culture of the recipients affects their understanding of the gospel, especially when presented from modern Western culture to the others. Newbigin’s personal experience as a missionary to India teaches future missionaries and students that it is very important to receive the gospel in the recipient’s own language, as he says, “the language of the Bible should be translated into the terms of our culture so that it may correspond to reality as we know it.” He also asserts that the church needs to play a significant part in the society that is already familiar, proclaiming the gospel through testimonies and lifestyles. The gospel proclaimed only through human by using mainly language that is deeply related to the culture, and the church will connect the gospel and the culture.

Many believe that people who think about themselves are self-centered and do not care about the people around them. That is where their wrong. Individualism is not just about one certain person; it is about the whole world. Stated by President Woodrow Wilson, “America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.” (Wilson). This proclamation overall shows how everyone is their own individual self but as a nation we all stand together. People are individuals.

1) An individualist is considered to be someone with personality and character, someone who is not easily intimidated by social pressure or customs, someone with a personal opinion and a singular view of the world. Because modern society finds it important that people think independently, decide autonomously and take personal initiatives, the concept of individualism has acquired a positive connotation. However, individualism is also linked with the tendency to withdraw from social life and turn in towards oneself.

The title of my paper reveals my own position. I am a believer. I think methodological individualism is indeed correct, in a strong sense that makes it go beyond a strictly methodological principle. By this I mean that I subscribe to both explanatory individualism and conceptual individualism, as these different forms are distinguished by Tuomela (1984, 1995), although similar distinctions were already introduced during the 1950s debate

This book was written by Lyman E. Reed. “Preparing Missionaries or Intercultural Communication” is a book for missionaries who want to prepare for being a cross-cultural missionary and provides the necessities for adequate preparation of missionaries. One of the clearer imperative for missions was pronounced and is recorded in Matthew 28: 19-20: Go, therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.

Every government the world has ever known can be categorized based on two simple categories. Individualism, or collectivism? Many might say governments can be categorized as any number of things, from monarchies, to democracies, to autocracies, and so on. However, every form of government stems from the decision of whether it will be focussed on individualism or collectivism. The ideal government, however, will promote individualism in the end. Why will this ideal governing body choose individualism? Individualism is at our very core as human beings. Individualism is the emphasis of the moral worth of each and every person individually, rather than collective ideologies. Human beings are complex creatures, and thus cannot be seen as a collective. Human beings must be seen as unique individuals, and any government failing to do so will surely fail in every other area as well. What are we without recognition of our uniqueness? We are simply cattle being bred for the government’s convenience if they fail to recognize us as individuals. As Hunter Hastings, from the Center for Indiidualism, said in reference to how we achieve order, “Law and order is the current way: command-and-control by the state, based on the laws the state manufactures through the political process. Unfortunately, under these conditions, a society tends to drift towards the worst forms of state control.”