How would your life be different if you had been born into another home, culture, or religious faith? Your perspective of life is influenced by your culture, your background, and your life experiences. This is called your worldview. The Worldview Basics course will compare seven major worldviews and examine what makes a biblical worldview so unique. Dig in and discover how worldviews influence you and others in ways you and they may not always be conscious of.
Materials
Leader's Guide- Accurately define what is meant by the term “worldview.”
- Identify by name and concept seven worldviews commonly held in the world today.
- Explain how each worldview answers these questions: “What Is Real?,” “Who Am I?,” “Where Did I Come From?,” “Why Am I Here?,” “What Is the Basis for My Values?,” and “What Does the Future Hold?”
- Discern comparisons and contrasts between each worldview on topics of reality, identity, origins, meaning, ethics, and the future.
- List the six distinctives of a biblical worldview and explain to someone else the internal consistency of a biblical worldview in contrast to the other worldviews examined.
- Explain how part of God’s truth can be found in each worldview.
- Make a decision concerning which worldview you feel to be the most consistent with truth.
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Outstanding learning experience.
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This course is really an eye-opener for me. In my academic years, I never learned about worldview.
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I appreciated the content and organization of information. After taking a lot of notes by hand for the first lesson, I then discovered that I could actually print out the info - SUPER HELPFUL and I am glad to have access to this information quickly in print version for the future. Thanks.
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I loved the descriptions of all the different worldviews.
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This was a very interesting course. It does reaffirm my belief in the Christian faith but it also opens my eyes to how others think.
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Just the right amount of information to get a summary of each worldview
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I really enjoyed this course and would definitely recommend it to others.
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Great course!!
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Very good course that provided information of other worldviews.
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Very interesting to think through the different worldviews.
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Very informative & thorough
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I enjoyed learning briefly about other worldviews in this course.
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Great course! Love how simple yet effective it was
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This course actually opened my mind to understand how the whole truth of God in our Bible has been rearranged according to new ideologies! New ways to incorporate non believers or partial believers into the whole grand picture of our Jesus Christ.
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This was a great course. The questions are, at times, tricky. I'm not sure that helps in my learning. To the extent they force me to review areas in more detail, that is helpful.
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An interesting survey of worldviews from the angle of comparative religion. It helps me understand what ideologies people around me are driven by, and may help in future during evangelism. Of course, the biblical worldview (or any other worldview) actually includes more distinctives than reality, identity, origins, meaning, values, and the future, as presented here. It also needs to grapple with different questions/choices like "why is there suffering?", "are white lies, abortion, euthanasia, etc., ok?", "can the ends justify the means?", etc. These issues belong to advanced courses, but this course is, understandably, just an introduction to worldviews and is useful for comparative religion. In this aim, it has succeeded admirably.
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Great course and helped me understand some more about these worldviews that I had already taken initiative to study, and have experienced as the beliefs of others — or atleast their claim to believe as a system of thought, philosophy, and/or practice.
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Great information and knowledge and presented in an easy to understand way.
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I enjoyed learning and comparing the different world views. I feel it helped deepen my understanding.
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This is my first time of learning these worldviews and I can see that I am better enlightened.
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Loved it, and it brought a lot of context and information to the type of people we are called to love.
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This course was an interesting review of the philosophy courses that I took during my college years. The material was presented in an educational and interesting manner.
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A very succinct course on worldview for beginners
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This course on Worldview is very informative and observable for the different ideologies that exist today.
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Thank you for taking the time to create helpful resources for us to BE the salt & light of the world.
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I continue to learn so much through these courses. Thank you so much. I recommend them to everyone I know.
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It is great to know and understand other worldviews.
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This has been such a great learning experience, can't wait to learn more.
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Good knowledge about others general views of people
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Most of my "worldview" courses have been in the context of world religions but considering that the majority of our population is becoming more and more "non-religious", I found this to be extremely enlightening in understanding other thought patterns of belief.
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I came into this with a solid understanding of the Biblical Worldview, but not a great understanding of the others. This course was a great introduction to the major worldviews and was organized in a way that helps one compare and contrast all layers of each worldview.
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This course especially helped me to see how each worldview has some truth in God's Word, and thus give connecting points in conversations with others having different worldviews.
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Very interesting - it provided me with a much-needed background on the other religions and worldviews.
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Loved it! It has made me want to dive deeper in understanding why people believe what they believe and how do I best work with them to show them the Gospel.
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Great!
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Great course, thank you.
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Eccellente
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This course provided a very strong and helpful explanation of the various worldviews.
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Gave a broad view of the worldviews which further soldified my faith in Jesus.
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Confusing at times and hard to follow. A chart would be nice to see it all laid out side by side with comparisons.
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I have enjoyed interacting with other students in the course. Overall I have enjoyed this course.
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The course clarified my thinking on what constitutes a Biblical Worldview.
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This was one of my favorites. Thank you!
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I really enjoyed this course. The six different worldviews were clearly explained. I especially liked learning how they all agree with a part of the biblical view, they just distort it and mislead people. It all starts with God!
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Very insightful
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I felt the course was deeper and more sophisticated than expected. It was worthwhile and stimulated a lot of thought. I appreciated the conciseness of the worldview definitions and the printed materials.
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This lesson allowed me to realize how others are thinking as well as some views that I personally should look into from the Bible
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Amazing thank you so much.
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Very good course. Worldviews are important for us to understand.
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I appreciated this course. Overall it sharpened my understanding of the different worldviews. It will make me a better ambassador of Christ to understand more about what other people believe.