Worldview

From SPARK

Two-Third Worldview

Phil Stone writes: 2/3 World View – The majority of people living in the under-developed world hold to this view of the world. These people 1) Acknowledge the existence of a Creator God, though they think that God is far off and uninterested in the everyday affairs of people. 2) Believe that the empirical world exists, but that it covers an inconsequential aspect of everyday affairs. 3) Believe that most events that happen in the world are the result of beings from the spiritual realm interacting in the created world. That spiritual realm includes dead ancestors, angels, demons, and all manner of related forces.

Five World Views

In the book Total Truth by Nancy Pearcy she states than in order to be professionally prepared to work in other cultures, the focus is almost entirely on world views. Additionally language learning, in the words of an international student, is considered only a preliminary step. In communicating effectively one needs to know the habits of thought in a culture. It is no accident, in the words of Pearcy, that Paul says:

Christians are called to be “ambassadors” for the heavenly King to an alien culture (2 Cor. 5:20).

Compiled from Nancy Pearcy’s Total Truth

Table represents summary of Nancy Pearcy’s Christian Worldview in the book Total Truth.

Perspective	Creation	Fall	Redemption
Marxism	Self-creating,self-generating matter	The rise of private property	Revolution! Overthrow the oppressors and recreate the original paradise of primitive communism
Rousseau	The state of nature	Society or civilization	The state
Sanger	Evolution: Biological and Social Darwinism	The rise of Christian morality	Sexual liberation
Buddhist / New Age Pantheism Islam[1]	The Absolute, the One, a Universal Spiritual Essence	Our sense of individuality	By being reunited with the Universal Spiritual Essence from which we all came
Biblical	God the intelligent creator	Our sin	God’s provision by the sacrifice of His only son