Lesson 1 Vocab Flashcards
(20 cards)
Worldview
“A way of seeing”
Our understanding of reality which serves as the frame of reference for all thought and action.
Making Sense of Your World
A book that describes worldview as “my blueprint” for reality describing my understanding of the world and prescribing how I will live in it
Socrates
A guy who said “the unexamined life is not worth living”
General Revelation
Knowledge that comes through Gods created works and is discerned through human discovery
Special revelation
Deeper insights about life that are revealed through Gods word and are exclusively divine disclosure (Bible)
Naturalism
there is no supernatural realm (sees God as imaginary)
Skeptic
“I doubt there is a God”
Agnostic
“I don’t know if there is a God”
Atheist
“I know God does not exist”
Secularist
“I don’t care if there is a God”
Theism
There is more than the physical world - there is a personal God who created it.
Transcendent
Beyond the universe
Immanent
Active with the universe
Theo- Centric
God centered
Christo- Centric
Christ centered
Pantheism
Declares that there is only one level of reality, the realm of the spiritual or the divine, believes in monism and that all things are a unified whole meaning that everything exists from the same stuff
Monism (eastern philosophy)
Believes that There is no distinction between creator and creation and if all is one then all is God (everything can be worshiped as in Hinduism)
New Age Movement
A very popular form of pantheism in Western Europe
Deism
God is entirely beyond our would and not within it (God made the world to be governed by natural laws)
Polytheism
Reflects a radically pluralistic world view
