¶ … worldview is a "set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false)," ("Four Major Worldviews," n.d.). The presuppositions that form our personal worldview have a strong bearing on our ongoing attitudes, behaviors, goals, and expectations. Our worldview might change throughout the course of our lives, due to exposure to new ideas, new people, or new ways of looking at the world. Naturally, religious upbringing and culture have a major influence on worldview development.
The seven major questions that help identify worldview and gain better understanding of self and others pertain to issues like prime reality and belief in deity, life after death, and ethics. Although there are potentially infinite worldviews depending on one's core beliefs and answers to major epistemological questions, pluralism, scientism, and postmodernism are some of the prevalent structures guiding contemporary worldviews.
Pluralism acknowledges the great diversity of human experiences and cultures, but disavows any absolute reality. In other words, pluralism is by definition relativistic. While pluralism permits tolerance of diversity in a pluralistic, heterogeneous society, the pluralistic point-of-view leads to weak worldview development due to there being no concept of absolute truth, and similarly, no concept of absolute right and wrong. Postmodernism shares much in common with pluralism in that it denies objective truth in favor of a relativistic one (MacPhail, n.d.). Whereas pluralism would affirm the truth in all faiths, for example, postmodernism denies that any faith can offer certainty of the nature of existence. The postmodern view is cynical and pessimistic, highlighting the ways religion as a social institution becomes a means of social and psychological control. Yet both pluralism and postmodernism show how worldview does influence the ways people think and what they think. Scientism is a method of thinking about reality that strongly materialistic....
Christian Counseling According to McMinn Counseling others through difficult time, challenging personal crises or the simple complexities of everyday life requires patience, compassion and selflessness. These are also all features of a good Christian life devoted to fellowship and the scriptures. These are the ideas at the crux of Mark McMinn's 1996 text Psychology, Theology and Spirituality in Christian Counseling. At its most basic, the text is an outline of the
Similarly the Ayurvedic tradition of India emphasized rest and relaxation and nutritional well-being, along with various mentally stimulating exercises. Ayurvedic resorts are still popular in the East. Buddhism is also viewed as an avenue out of depression -- a mode to enlightenment. Nonetheless, as James C.-Y. Chou (2005) states, "The concept of psychological depression in Eastern cultures is not as well accepted as it is in Western cultures. In fact,
Christian Worldview Imagine studying the Bible and all that is has to offer. How does the Bible relate to this aspect? How does one's perspective change after studying God's Word? What statistics are involved? One will investigate a Biblical Christian worldview. "A Christian worldview is practicing the Kingship of Jesus" (Colson, 2010). Revelation 4:11 says it well by means of reminding the reader that God created everything and that Jesus is the
Buddhism requires intense study and meditation times, which is a very individual choice. However, there were some aspects that parallel Christianity as a religion... The bhikkus, or very dedicated individual followers of this spiritual path, are analogous to Christianity's monks and nuns, studying spirituality on a very advanced level; the lay Buddhists are perhaps more like average religious followers, supporting and learning from the Bhikkus, living by a simple moral
" (Romans 12:1). Assisted Suicide Assisted suicide is when one person aids another person in ending their life, because the person ending their life chooses to do so. This act is alternatively termed voluntary euthanasia, though the semantic difference between the two terms lays in the intent of self-destruction (suicide) versus death with moral forethought and dignity (Downie 2004). It is a fine line, fraught with great moral dilemma. Christian teachings are the
Integration of Counseling Theory From a Christian Perspective Current Integration of Counseling Theory from a Christian Perspective The biblical approach to counseling brings with it so much in the field of counseling. Unlike many other logical approaches to counseling, Christian view of personality and counseling takes a spiritual angle to behavior and behavior change. Effectively, the worldview of a Christian ion as far as counseling is concerned will be very different from
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