Worldview Basics
This is the framework of ideas, like a lens, through which we see and interpret the world.
What is a worldview?
Christianity is centered on this person and draws its understanding of the world from the Bible.
Who is Jesus Christ?
Islam is centered on the life of this prophet.
Who is Muhammad?
This is the belief that God does not exist.
What is Atheism?
Marxism is built on the ideas of this man.
Who is Karl Marx?
Every worldview is described in this many academic disciplines, from theology to history.
What is ten disciplines?
Christianity teaches the world is broken because of this.
What is sin?
In addition to the Hadith and Sunnah, Islam draws its understanding of the world from this holy book.
What is the Quran?
Secularism teaches that man is broken because of this.
What is ignorance?
Marxism teaches that the world is broken because this group took more than their fair share.
Who are the rich?
This discipline is defined as the study of the human mind, or soul.
What is psychology?
Christinity's answer to Theology: one God in three distinct persons, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
What is Trinitarian Monotheism?
From the Arabic for "nation," this term names the collective community of Muslims around the world.
What is the Ummah?
According to Secularism, redemption comes through this.
What is science?
Marxism's answer to Economics: governmental control of the means of production and distribution is defined as this.
What is Socialism?
Name the second question every worldview answers.
What is "What went wrong"?
This is the term for unconditional love at the foundation of Christian ethics.
What is Agape?
Islam's answer to Ethics, Divine Command Theory, states that right and wrong are determined by this.
What are God's commands?
The Biology answer says new species arise through natural selection acting over vast time on chance genetic mutations.
What is Neo-Darwinism?
This is Marxism's view of History says society progresses through tribalism, feudalism, capitalism, socialism, and finally communism.
What is Historical Materialism?
Name the third question every worldview answers.
What is "How is it made right"?
Kuyper's idea that God ordained the family, church, and state, each best at managing its own responsibility.
What is Sphere Sovereignty?
Islam's view of history, that all Muslims should be united under a single, global Islamic state is reffered to as this.
What is Pan-Islam?
The term to describe Secularism's view of Law, defined as "laws are rules created by human authorities, with no necessary connection between law and morality."
What is Legal Positivism?
This is Marxism's answer to Philosophy: only the material world exists and the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie drives progress
What is Dialectical Materialism?