CWV-101 topic study guide 1 – Flashcards

Foundation of a building • Form the basis that supports and gives shape to the entire structure that it is built on. • Usually remains hidden from direct observation. • Always given shape to the parts of the building that can be seen. Lenses • Provides a way for us to see the world. • Shape the ways people see. • Determines how accurately a person perceives reality. • The means by which a person interprets and assesses reality. Box top of a jigsaw puzzle • Help a person make sense of the particulars of life by offering a big picture that helps connect smaller pieces. • Offers the guidance needed to respond to questions, evaluate ideas, and interpret experience as one encounters the world. Story

A worldview is a foundation set of assumptions to which one commits that serves as a framework for understanding and interpreting reality and deeply shapes one's behavior. A set of assumptions or beliefs about reality that affect how we think and how we live. Worldviews are composed of assumptions that form something like a foundation for every individual. A worldview is composed of assumptions to which a person commits.

All worldviews are supported by faith and reason

A hypocrite, or a sinner.

Follow God, because his wisdom is far more important and valuable than jewels or rubies. Nothing can compare with it.

• Private worldview is an individual's personal view of the world that is shaped by that individual's life story, experience, social and cultural context, and relationships. • Shared worldviews refer to a set of foundational assumptions that groups of individuals hold in common.

• Coherence test • Correspondence test • Practical test

An open system says that there is a spiritual force outside of social interaction while a closed system says there is no outside force.

Knowledge

Ultimate Reality

Ethics

Nature of the Universe

Purpose

Human nature

Belief in a personal and relational God who created and sustains all that exists.

Belief in a God who created all things but is not relational or involved in the world.

Belief that "all is god" and a strong sense of spiritualism but not in a personal God.

Belief based only on the natural or physical realm with no spiritual or supernatural.

a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions which we hold about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundations on which we live and move and have our being.

a conceptual framework, pattern or arrangement of a person's beliefs

checks internal consistency to see if your values and beliefs match up with other beliefs in your said worldview

examines how well the worldview corresponds to reality

evaluates a worldview's livability. does it bring satisfaction or is it lacking?