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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 Passion
Deism – The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine
Naturalism – Darwin
Nihilism – Nietzsche, Big Lebowski
Pantheism – Henry David Thoreau – Walden
Existentialism – Notes from Underground
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Monotheism – Christianity, Judaism, and Islam believe there is one God.
Deism – Thomas Jefferson
Naturalism – Darwin’s book: <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;”>On the Origin of Species
Nihilist – The Big Lebowski
Pantheism – ‘God is all, and all is God.’
Existentialism – Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Charles Sartre
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Monotheism – The Chosen
Deism – “I believe a god created the universe, but he’s not involved in creation now.”
Naturalism – Nature is all there is. A person puts stock in evidence-based ways of justifying what is real.
Nihilism – All values are baseless, and nothing can be known or communicated. i.e. Seinfeld
Existentialism – “It is up to each one of us to decide who and what we are through our own actions”. – Guignon
Pantheism – God is everything and everyone and everyone and everything is God.
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Monotheism- Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Deism- Thomas Jefferson – Orderly Universe
Naturalism- Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin – Evolution-Science is all that exists.
Nihilism- Anti philosophy activist- Nietzsche-skeptical
Existentialism- Atheist, Theists, – Meaningless of life- Gods Not Dead
Pantheism- Everything is God – Hinduism, Buddhism- Everything an illusion
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Monotheism – Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Deism – Thomas Jefferson – Orderly Universe
Naturalism – Darwin – Science is all that exists
Nihilism – Nietzsche – Skeptical
Existentialism – European philosophers of the 18th and 19th Century
Pantheism – Buddhists – God is in all. Matter is an illusion
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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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Most alike – Naturalism and existentialism. Both schools of thought stress the idea of no intelligent creator.
Most different – Pantheism and Existentialism, God is everything and there is no God
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I would say that Judaism and Christianity are the most similar because at the outset they both believe in God the Father and both except the first five books of the Bible the same.
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Diesm and monotheism are alike in that they both believe in the existence of God as creator.
Nihilists bow to nothing obey nothing and monotheists bow and obey God. These are most dissimilar.
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I believe that Nihilism and Existentialism have the most in common. Both of these worldviews hold to the idea that “life is what you make of it”. Personal choice creates significance and determines true “meaning”. Monotheism and Pantheism are the most dissimilar. While monotheism believes strictly in one God, pantheists believe in multiple gods. Monotheism believes that God is everywhere but separate from His creation and pantheism believes that everything that exists is god.
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I think Monotheism and Deism are probably most alike because both worldviews acknowledge a God, a Creator of the universe and all living beings; the only difference is between these worldviews is the degree to which God intervenes in daily life.
The two most dissimilar worldviews would have to be monotheism and nihilism. In one worldview is an loving, righteous, and purposeful God who created all things; on the other end is the existence of no God and a complete meaninglessness to humanity’s life and purpose on earth.
