Biblical Worldview Study Guide PDF
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This study guide presents different viewpoints on religion, philosophy, and worldviews, focusing on Theism, Atheism, Pantheism, and others, including detailed descriptions for understanding the different worldviews.
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Biblical Worldview STUDY GUIDE Prominent Worldviews 1. Theism: There is one God who created all. 2. Atheism: There is no God. 3. Pantheism: Everything is god. 4. Panentheism: God is an eternal process of growing and becoming. 5. Deism: God created the world but doesn’t intervene in it....
Biblical Worldview STUDY GUIDE Prominent Worldviews 1. Theism: There is one God who created all. 2. Atheism: There is no God. 3. Pantheism: Everything is god. 4. Panentheism: God is an eternal process of growing and becoming. 5. Deism: God created the world but doesn’t intervene in it. 6. Finite Godism: The god that exists limited in some way. 7. Polytheism: There are many gods. Dominant Worldviews in the Western World 8. Naturalism: All that exists is the physical world. 9. Nihilism: There is no ultimate truth, meaning, or right and wrong. 10. Existentialism: We create our own truth and meaning. 11. New Age Spirituality: We combine elements of Eastern Pantheistic Monism (e.g., reincarnation and Eastern meditation) with popular psychology and occultic practices. 12. Postmodernism: The concept of absolute truth is a human construct used to get power, so we need to prioritize the stories of our own tribes and emphasize our own truth. 1 13. Islamic Theism: The singular god Allah created all and saves those who submit to him in obedience. Eight Less Obvious Western Worldviews 14. Individualism: The interests of the individual are or ought to be ethically paramount. 15. Consumerism: The consumption of goods and services is the means of attaining wellbeing. 16. Nationalism: Exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups. 17. Salvation by _Therapy : Reduces the significance of spiritual issues by referring to them psychological problems. 18. Woke: Corpus of theories revolving around identity, gender, and race, with the core principle of revealing and condemning concealed forms of domination, positing that all aspects of society can be reduced to a dynamic of oppressor and oppressed, with those oblivious to this notion deemed complicit. 2
