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Worldview Definition Assignment
Berreka B. Franklin
Department of Social Work, Liberty University
Professor Michael Eiras
RLGN 104: Christian Life and Biblical Worldview
July 10, 2023
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Worldview Definition Assignment
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Definition of Worldview
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The Question of Origin
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The Question of Identity
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The Question of Meaning/Purpose
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The Question of Morality/Ethics
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The Question of Destiny
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Reference
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Worldview Definition Assignment
Definition of Worldview
A worldview is a collection of attitudes, values, stories, and expectations about the world
around us that inform our every thought and action (Sire, 2004). It is widely accepted that the
term, weltanschauung (worldview), was first coined by the Prussian philosopher, Immanuel Kant
in his Critique of Judgment, published in 1790. Weltanschauung was later translated as "our
intuition of the world." According to David Naugle in Worldview: The History of a Concept, by
the time the idea reached the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, the word was
translated in English as worldview (B&H Academic, 2000, p. 58).
The Question of Origin
Every human has questioned the beginning of time. Whereas humans have been created
through evolution and other worldviews, according to Gutierrez and Weider, Atheists such as
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great, and Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, also propose
the idea that God is not necessary for life or morals and that the answer to mankind’s existence is
found only in nature itself (B&H Academic, 200, p. 65). But the Bible opposes these allegations.
Theism contends that everything that exists, including humans, is the result of God, the Creator
God. God is said to have created ex nihilo, "out of nothing." Although differing in their concept
of His nature, God is the first cause, the answer to why there is something rather than nothing.
For example, the Bible says, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1)
(B&H Academic, 2000, p. 65).
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