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Weltanshauung

Worldview

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Four Needs of a Worldview (Holmes)

unify thought and life, define the good life and find hope and meaning in life, guide thought, guide action

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Noetic Structure

everything that a person believes

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Definition of Worldview

the sum total of answers one give to life's most basic questions

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Worldview "Tests"

Should be: Rational, Observable, Livable, Explainable

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Components of a Worldview

Theology, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Axiology, Anthropology

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thoughts

mental acts

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convictions

core beliefs that dictate our actions

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opinions

speculative religious beliefs may or may not be true

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doctrines

religious beliefs historically taken to be authoritative

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dogma

fundamental, non-negotiable religious beliefs

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metaphysics

what is real

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epistemology

what is true/knowledge

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axiology

what is valuable

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anthropology

view on human nature and purpose

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ontology

the study of being

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axiology variables

love, meaning, purpose, ethics/morality, aesthetics

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valid means of knowing

reason, empiricism, intuition, revelation

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two 'ways'

via positiva and negativa

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two 'more ways'

explicit and implicit knowledge

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defintions of knowledge

justified and warranted true belief

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General revelation

creation and conscience

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special revelation

redemptive history, divine speech, scripture, Jesus

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laws of logic

identity, excluded middle, noncontradiction

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Theism

infinite, perfect God exists beyond and in the universe

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naturalism

no G/god exists beyond or in the universe

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pantheism

an impersonal "perfect" God that is the universe

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deism

a personal, imperfect G/god exists beyond and not in the universe

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panentheism

a bipolar, perfecting, personal God exists in and not beyond the universe

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finite Godism

a finite, imperfect God exists beyond and in the universe

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polytheism

finite, imperfect personal gods exists in and not beyond the universe

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