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Understanding Worldview Concepts

A worldview is a mental framework that shapes a person's beliefs about reality and life. It includes perspectives on topics like human purpose, knowledge, God, morality, and the afterlife. A worldview is shaped by many factors like upbringing, experiences, and culture. It provides a lens for interpreting the world and guides decisions. While aspects are shared within communities, worldviews also differ between individuals based on their unique backgrounds and development.

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Understanding Worldview Concepts

A worldview is a mental framework that shapes a person's beliefs about reality and life. It includes perspectives on topics like human purpose, knowledge, God, morality, and the afterlife. A worldview is shaped by many factors like upbringing, experiences, and culture. It provides a lens for interpreting the world and guides decisions. While aspects are shared within communities, worldviews also differ between individuals based on their unique backgrounds and development.

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Worldview Definition

A worldview is a theory of the world, used for living in the world.


A world view is a mental model of reality a framework of ideas & attitudes about the world,
ourselves, and life, a comprehensive system of beliefs with answers for a wide range of
questions:

What are humans, why we are here, and what is our purpose in life?
What are your goals for life?
When you make decisions about using time it's the stuff life is made of what are
your values and priorities? *
What can we know, and how?
And with how much certainty?
Does reality include only matter/energy, or is there more?

Some worldview questions are about God:


Can we know whether God exists?
Does God exist?
If so, what characteristics does God have, and what relationship with the universe?
Have miracles occurred in the past, as claimed in the Bible, and do they occur now?
Are natural events produced and guided by God?
Was the universe self-creating, or did God create it?
Was it totally self-assembling by natural process, or did God sometimes create in
miraculous-appearing ways?
Does God communicate with us (mentally and spiritually) in everyday life, and through
written revelation, as in the Bible?
What is God's role in history?
Is there a purpose and meaning in history, for each of us individually and for all of us
together, or is life just a long string of things happening?
What happens after death?
How do worldviews affect decisions and actions in everyday life, for individuals and
societies?
What should we teach students about worldviews, and how, and why?
A person's worldview is affected by many factors by their inherited characteristics,
background experiences and life situations, the values, attitudes, and habits they have developed,
and more and these vary from one person to another. Therefore, even though some parts of a
worldview are shared by many people in a community, other parts differ for individuals.
Carol Hill says,
"By worldview I mean the basic way of interpreting things and events that pervades a culture
so thoroughly that it becomes a culture's concept of reality what is good, what is important,
what is sacred, what is real. Worldview is more than culture, even though the distinction
between the two can sometimes be subtle. It extends to perceptions of time and space, of

happiness and well-being. The beliefs, values, and behaviors of a culture stem directly from its
worldview."

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