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Christianity as a Worldview (23S1)
Welcome to Christianity as a Worldview. This unit introduces you to worldview analysis, which is a philosophical framework for evaluating Christianity and other meta-narratives. A worldview is essentially a comprehensive ‘picture’ of the world based on certain fundamental assumptions about the nature of reality. Worldview analysis argues that what we perceive in everyday life is always filtered through some worldview. Yet we often remain unaware of the assumptions that define our worldview. This unit will encourage critical interaction between the Christian worldview and your own worldview as you learn to examine the Christian tradition from the standpoint of worldview analysis and to identify and scrutinise the assumptions of your own worldview. We will describe the worldview concept and its limitations, asking whether and in what sense Christianity can be usefully described as a worldview. To help you better understand what a worldview is, some influential alternatives to the Christian worldview will also be discussed. Lastly, attention will be given to the relationship between the Christian worldview and selected academic disciplines.