CWV - 101 Topic 1: Questions & Answers
3 analogies for worldview in textbook Correct Ans - 1. lenses
2. box top of a jigsaw puzzle
3. foundation of a building
Lenses Correct Ans - "worldviews shape the ways that people see;
however, in the case of worldviews, everyone looks at the world through
the "lenses" of their fundamental assumptions."
Box top of a jigsaw puzzle Correct Ans - "Like a puzzle's box top,
worldviews help a person make sense of the particulars of life by offering a
big picture that helps connect smaller pieces."
Foundation of a building Correct Ans - "They form a basis that
supports and gives shape to the entire structure that is built atop them..
And, as with buildings, entire lives are constructed on the basis of
worldviews that largely remain hidden from sight even though they
profoundly impact the shape of those lives."
Ronald Nash Worldview Definition Correct Ans - "a conceptual
framework, pattern, or arrangement of a person's beliefs. The best
worldviews are comprehensive, systematic, and supposedly true views of
life and the world"
Kenneth Samples Worldview Definition Correct Ans - "how one
sees life and the world at large" (p. 20). Samples focuses primarily on how
worldview affects one's perspectives. He also believes that people's
worldviews can be incorrect or under false assumptions.
James Sire Correct Ans - "A commitment, a fundamental orientation
of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions
(assumptions which may be true, partially true, or entirely false) which we
hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about
the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundation on which
we live and move and have our being (p. 122)."
Theism Correct Ans - Belief in a personal and relational God who
created and sustains all that exists
3 analogies for worldview in textbook Correct Ans - 1. lenses
2. box top of a jigsaw puzzle
3. foundation of a building
Lenses Correct Ans - "worldviews shape the ways that people see;
however, in the case of worldviews, everyone looks at the world through
the "lenses" of their fundamental assumptions."
Box top of a jigsaw puzzle Correct Ans - "Like a puzzle's box top,
worldviews help a person make sense of the particulars of life by offering a
big picture that helps connect smaller pieces."
Foundation of a building Correct Ans - "They form a basis that
supports and gives shape to the entire structure that is built atop them..
And, as with buildings, entire lives are constructed on the basis of
worldviews that largely remain hidden from sight even though they
profoundly impact the shape of those lives."
Ronald Nash Worldview Definition Correct Ans - "a conceptual
framework, pattern, or arrangement of a person's beliefs. The best
worldviews are comprehensive, systematic, and supposedly true views of
life and the world"
Kenneth Samples Worldview Definition Correct Ans - "how one
sees life and the world at large" (p. 20). Samples focuses primarily on how
worldview affects one's perspectives. He also believes that people's
worldviews can be incorrect or under false assumptions.
James Sire Correct Ans - "A commitment, a fundamental orientation
of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions
(assumptions which may be true, partially true, or entirely false) which we
hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about
the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundation on which
we live and move and have our being (p. 122)."
Theism Correct Ans - Belief in a personal and relational God who
created and sustains all that exists
