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Lesson OneWhat Are the Major Worldviews?3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoQuestions a Worldview Seeks To Answer - Part I3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeQuestions a Worldview Seeks To Answer - Part II3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FourDistinctives of a Biblical Worldview3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FiveWhich Worldview Will You Choose?3 Activities1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity1 Assessment
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Discussion Questions
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List a television show, a book, a friend’s opinion, or some other source that illustrates each of the six worldviews listed. Example: Deism—Neil Armstrong, the first man to step on the moon, indicated on a NASA form that he was a deist.
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Monotheism – The Chosen
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Monotheism-The Chosen series
Deism-George Washington was Deist
Naturalism-Robert De Niro’s portrayal of Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980).
Nihilism-No Country for Old Men the film shows how there is no absolute value that gets replaced when old values die out, and that there isn’t even any objective ‘value’ to human life, either, especially considering that people are sacks of meat, merely flesh and blood
Existentialism-Quote by Charles Bukowski “If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”
Pantheism-Elon Musk is a Pantheist -
This is rather difficult to specify in my Asian context, because Asian people don’t often verbalize their worldviews according to the Western paradigms listed in this lecture. Granted that there are many professing Buddhists and Hindus among the Chinese and Indians here so that one may assume that they may hold a pantheistic worldview, they practically live by an eclectic worldview set (as this lecture also says about the man on the street). I cannot say who is a living model of which worldview.
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Monotheism – Billy Graham, Bishop Baron, Muhammad Ali
Deism- Thomas Jefferson
Naturalism – Clint Eastwood, John Muir
Nihilism – Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx (Satanic)
Existentialism- Hamlet (Shakespeares character)
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Monotheism – There is one true God who created the universe and is involved in the universe.
Deism – Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin considered themselves deists because they believed God created the world and then left it alone. “Let the chips fall as they may.”
Naturalism – The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Matter came to existence on its own, life as we know it has just been a series of trail and error, survival of the fittest.
Nihilism – Fredrick Nietzsche is perhaps the most popular when it comes to Nihilism , believing that life has no meaning or value.
Existentialism – People believe you can create meaning and purpose in your lives by the decisions we make. I think most people today hold this belief, whether they even know it or not.
Pantheism – The ancient Hindu believe you can meditate and eventually reach a state where you become one with the universe. And “god” isn’t so much a being, but is all around us and is the universe itself.
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Of the six worldviews listed, which two are most alike? Which two are the most dissimilar? Explain.
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Deism and naturalism are most similar due to their dependence upon experience as opposed to personal revelation. The most dissimilar are monotheism and existentialism (and nihilism) due to the disparity between purpose and lack thereof.
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It seems like Naturalism and Pantheism exalt creation over the Creator
Theism- specifically Christianity and Existentialism are very opposed. -
Christian and Judaism are most alike.
Deism and monotheism are most dissimilar .
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Nihilism and existentialism seem very similar because they both question truth and meaning. Pantheism and existentialism seem to be most at odds because pantheism says that everything is God and existentialism says that nothing matters.
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Nihilism and existentialism are the most similar, they both essentially claim that there is little meaning to life and little that can be trusted. Monotheism and existentialism are the most dissimilar, as monotheism points to a creator God, while existentialism finds no meaning in life.