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A Christian Worldview
and the
Worldview of August Comte
Scriptural Foundation
*mportance of a Worldview
!eed Road ap for "ife
1.Worldview 4ife5s 6oad 7ap
&.1ur worldview determines our8
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Decisions
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1ur life goals
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What we thin% will ma%e us happy
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-ow we spend our money
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-ow we treat others
What is y Worldview?
#veryone already has $Worldview%
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:arents
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<riends = >eighbors
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?chool
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3oo%s = 7aga2ines
&idden Worldviews
Atheism
'(istentialism
-edonism
-umanism
7aterialism
>ihilism
:antheism
:olytheism
:ostmodernism
:ragmatism
?ocialism
Theism
#-amples of Worldviews
The Theological
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The pre"'nlightenment phase in which
humanity5s place in society was referenced
to od or nature, in which the divine will
subsumed human rights, and humanity
blindly believed in whatever they were
taught by their ancestors.
"aw of /hree 0hases
The Metaphysical
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The post"'nlightenment humanist phase,
referenced to e(planations by impersonal
abstract thought, and where the universal
rights of humanity are most important.
"aw of /hree 0hases
The Positive
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The final scientific stage in which the search
for absolute %nowledge is abandoned,
scientific e(planation is based on
observation, e(periment and comparison.
Ronald &1 !ash 2
Worldviews
Deity
7etaphyics
'pistemology
'thics
Anthropology
Deity " 3eliefs About od
Does od e(istE
Saint Au*ustine
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-is use of the philosophy of :lato.
/homas A5uinas
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-is use of the philosophy of Aristotle.