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Title: Worldviews


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Worldviews Eschatology
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African Worldview
God
Ancestral Realm
Material World
3
African Spiritual Worldview
  • Ancestral spirits influence everyday life
  • God is obscure to humanity
  • At death one joins the ancestral spirits
  • Circular history through children
  • Distant God or gods

4
Hindu Worldview
gods
Brahman
Material World
5
Hindu Internal Worldview
  • Gods are primarily powers of nature
  • Gods is not separate from creation
  • Brahman (universal spirit) exists in the world
  • Cyclical history, life, death, reincarnation, new
    existence
  • Multiple gods

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Deistic Worldview
God
Material World
7
Deistic Natural Worldview
  • God created the world and set it to run by
    natural law
  • God does not intervene miraculously
  • God is separate from the world
  • Some of the founding fathers of America held this
    view
  • Linear view of history
  • Uninvolved God

8
Secular Worldview
Big Bang
Material World
9
Secular Atheistic Worldview
  • Non-personal source for existence of world
  • Accidental formation by explosion over time
  • Basic elements combined, evolved and mutated to
    form current world
  • World will rundown
  • Linear history
  • No God

10
New Age Worldview
Mystical Realm
Material World Spiritual Aspects
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New Age Natural/Mystical Worldview
  • World and God or gods are intertwined
  • God(s) exist in all things and beings (pantheism)
  • Each thing and person is a part of god(s)
  • God(s) is the creation
  • Mixture of eastern mysticism and western
    scientific speculation
  • We are god(s)

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Christian Worldview
God Spiritual Realm
Material Realm
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Christian Relational Worldview
  • World created by a personal God
  • Purposeful creation
  • God continues to interact with His creation
  • God acts and people respond
  • People exist in a relationship with God
  • Linear material world to eternal existence
  • God is I Am
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