what in the world is a world view? and where can i get one? © john stevenson, 2008
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What in the World is What in the World is a World View?a World View?
And where can I get one?
© John Stevenson, 2008
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What is a World View?What is a World View?
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A window to the world
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The glasses through which we seeThe glasses through which we see
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What did you see?What did you see?
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What is a Worldview?What is a Worldview?
A worldview is a set of presuppositions which we hold about the basic makeup of our world.
James Sire
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Take Every Thought CaptiveTake Every Thought Captive
“We are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5).
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Be Ready to Make a Be Ready to Make a DefenseDefense
“Always being ready to make a defense
to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you” (1 Peter 3:15).
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Romans 12:1-2Romans 12:1-2Therefore I urge you, brethren,
by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
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Stated NegativelyDo not be
conformed to this world
Stated PositivelyBe transformed by
the renewing of your mind
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Course ObjectivesCourse Objectives
• Discover and understand what is a world view
• Define your own personal world view
• Understand what are the essential elements of a biblical Christian world view
• Reflect on what it means to think Christianly
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Course ObjectivesCourse Objectives
• Integrate the biblical Christian world view into all areas of life
• Discern world views in circumstances of life, especially in popular culture and the media
• Live the Christian faith
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Four Basic QuestionsFour Basic Questions
• What is real?– What is the nature of
ultimate reality?– Is this universe all
there is?– Is this physical
universe an illusion?– Who or what is God?
Timothy Phillips&
Sennis Okholm
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Four Basic QuestionsFour Basic Questions
• What is real?
• Who am I?– What does it mean to
be human?– What is the purpose of
human existence?– What are we doing
here?Timothy Phillips&
Sennis Okholm
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Four Basic QuestionsFour Basic Questions
• What is real?
• Who am I?
• What is wrong?– What is the origin of
suffering and evil?– Why do we die?– What keeps humans
from utopia?Timothy Phillips&
Sennis Okholm
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Four Basic QuestionsFour Basic Questions
• What is real?
• Who am I?
• What is wrong?
• What is the solution?– How does one remedy
this problem?– How does one attain
“salvation”?Timothy Phillips&
Sennis Okholm
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Most of your World View lies
under the surface and is
not immediately obvious
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What a World View Does
• Understood
• Accepted
• Acted upon
One’s worldview determines how the events and circumstances of life will be…
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Questions that inform all world views
• Definition: What is it?
• Purpose: Why is it here?
• Direction: Where is it going?
• Application: What should we do about it?
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NaturalismNaturalismSubtitle: The silence of finite space
• Secular Humanism• God is removed; the
universe was self-activating
• Human personality is only an interrelation of chemical properties
• Values are man-made
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““The cosmos The cosmos is all that is is all that is and all that and all that was and all was and all
that ever will that ever will be.”be.”
― Carl Sagan
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C.S. Lewis in C.S. Lewis in his book his book
MiraclesMiracles……
Naturalism is self-refuting because it
is inconsistent with the validity of
reasoning.
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NihilismNihilismSire’s subtitle: Zero point
• Extreme pessimism / skepticism
• Nothing has meaning, value, significance, dignity or worth
• Human beings are conscious machines with no ability to effect their destiny
• Human animal only invents values
B.F. Skinner
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ExistentialismExistentialismSubtitle: Beyond Nihilism
• Humanity is central: people make themselves who they are
• Knowledge is subjective• No absolute moral values• History is uncertain and
even unimportant• Supernatural is brushed
aside
Jean-PaulSartre
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Atheistic Theistic
Existentialism
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ExistentialismExistentialismSubtitle: Beyond Nihilism
Even the theistic version says that the Bible, though “religiously true,” is historically untrustworthy.
Paul Tillich
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Eastern PantheismEastern Pantheism
• Many (if not all) roads lead to the One
• Ideas are not really important
• Time is unreal• History is cyclical• Desire to enter the
undifferentiated One; in one sense, each person is God
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New AgeNew AgeSire’s subtitle: A separate universe
• “Core” experience is cosmic consciousness
• No personal God; only a mysterious Force; no Lord of the Universe unless it be us
• Borrows heavily from animism
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““May the May the force be with force be with
you”you”
― Yoda
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The Circle of LifeThe Circle of Life
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PostmodernismPostmodernismSire’s subtitle: The vanished horizon
• All stories equally valid• Focus changes from being to
knowing• Paradoxically, reality is forever
hidden• Any story but my own is
oppressive• Social good = whatever
society takes it to be at the moment
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PostmodernismPostmodernismSire’s subtitle: The vanished horizon
• The postmodernist stares blankly at any claims to truth and shrugs: “Okay if it works for you.”
• “There are many kinds of truths and consequently, there is no truth” – Nietzsche
• Instead of “the truth shall make you free,” postmodernism claims that “freedom shall make you true.”
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Wayne Stayskal, Tampa Tribune
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Postmodernists and TruthPostmodernists and Truth
• “Truth is what one’s peers let one get away with” -- Richard Rorty
• “Postmodern ethics inevitably slides in the direction of nihilism, holding that since nothing is really true, nothing is necessarily good” -- Gerard Reed
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“Reality is that which, when you
stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” - Philip Dick (1928-
1982)
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DeismDeismSire’s subtitle: The clockwork universe
• God– Is Distant
• an intellect to be recognized• not a person to be worshipped
– Is an architect, not a lover or a judge
• The Cosmos is not fallen or abnormal
Voltaire
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The Cosmos in DeismThe Cosmos in Deism
• A closed, linear, cause and effect system
• A clockwork universe that God allowed to run on its own
• God, as the first cause, never intervenes
• Miracles do not happenVoltaire
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Christian TheismChristian TheismSire’s subtitle: A world charged with the
grandeur of God
Knowledge, death, reality, ethics, history, and the
realness of human beings are all focused on God.
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Matthew 6:24Matthew 6:24No one can serve two masters;
for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
How is one’s world view impacted if he attempts to
serve two masters?
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What is the What is the impact of impact of taking a taking a
“double vision” “double vision” approach to approach to
life?life?
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