Worldview Assignment
WORLDVIEW ASSIGNMENT
APOL 104-D04 LUO
7/14/2014
Worldview Assignment
Part I: A Definition of “Worldview”
According to Merriam Webster Online, worldview is “the way someone thinks about the world” (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worldview 2014). Or as Prussian Philosopher, Immanuel Kant published, “our intuition of the world” or “Weltanschauung” (Weider & Gutierrez, 2013, p. 58). Beyond definition and text book explanations, worldview is simply how one see’s the world. A perspective of all things around us in the world. Worldview will differ from person to person. Weider and Gutierrez, (p. 59) described worldview as a “filter or lens” that everyone uses to see the world around them. Your worldview effects your views of everything from politics, to art, from religion, to moral beliefs. One person standing in the Louvre, may notice her beautiful smile when looking at da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, another may never see it. Each person see’s the painting in different ways. Worldview can be the same.
Part II: Articulation of a Biblical Worldview
If worldview is the way someone views the world, biblical worldview is the way someone views the world beginning with God. (Weider & Gutierrez, p. 79) The answers to the questions of origin, identity, meaning, morality, and destiny will clearly be biblically based in a biblical world view.
Origin:
The question of origin answered from a biblical worldview clearly begins with Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God” (NIV). God was, God created. As one who views the world through a Biblical lens, knows that God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into him the breath of life making man a living being. (Genesis 2:7 NIV). John 1:2 and 3 tell us that Jesus was in fact in the beginning with God, and that all things that were made were made by God. (NIV)
Identity: What does it mean to be human? The naturalist worldview would follow an evolutional path to humanity
APOL 104-D04 LUO
7/14/2014
Worldview Assignment
Part I: A Definition of “Worldview”
According to Merriam Webster Online, worldview is “the way someone thinks about the world” (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worldview 2014). Or as Prussian Philosopher, Immanuel Kant published, “our intuition of the world” or “Weltanschauung” (Weider & Gutierrez, 2013, p. 58). Beyond definition and text book explanations, worldview is simply how one see’s the world. A perspective of all things around us in the world. Worldview will differ from person to person. Weider and Gutierrez, (p. 59) described worldview as a “filter or lens” that everyone uses to see the world around them. Your worldview effects your views of everything from politics, to art, from religion, to moral beliefs. One person standing in the Louvre, may notice her beautiful smile when looking at da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, another may never see it. Each person see’s the painting in different ways. Worldview can be the same.
Part II: Articulation of a Biblical Worldview
If worldview is the way someone views the world, biblical worldview is the way someone views the world beginning with God. (Weider & Gutierrez, p. 79) The answers to the questions of origin, identity, meaning, morality, and destiny will clearly be biblically based in a biblical world view.
Origin:
The question of origin answered from a biblical worldview clearly begins with Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God” (NIV). God was, God created. As one who views the world through a Biblical lens, knows that God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into him the breath of life making man a living being. (Genesis 2:7 NIV). John 1:2 and 3 tell us that Jesus was in fact in the beginning with God, and that all things that were made were made by God. (NIV)
Identity: What does it mean to be human? The naturalist worldview would follow an evolutional path to humanity