Personal Worldview Inventory
According to Shelly & Miller (2016), the worldviews are the most fundamental and encompassing views of reality shared by a people in a culture. Furthermore, they can provide the cultural lenses that shape how we see the world, and they give meaning to life, both personally and humanity as a whole. Therefore, this author believes that her worldview has greatly influenced her upbringing, and everything around her impacts her decision and interpretation on what it is good or bad. In this paper, she will take a look at her personal worldview and discuss it as it is related to pluralism, scientism, postmodernism, and as well as the seven basic worldview questions by Sire.
What is Prime Reality?
According to Sire (2015), the prime reality is God. The author believes that God is real and the creator of all. Also, she believes that humans are made with the capacity to relate to God in a personal way that has supported our respect for each person. However, not everybody believes there is only one true God. For those, …show more content…
Therefore, it is unlikely for someone who has a less religious foundation not to get confused and overwhelmed. By all means, this is why pluralism is very important, and just because someone has a different belief than someone’s else doesn’t mean they should not get along. According to Eck (2016), pluralism is not relativism, but the encounter of commitments, which means holding our deepest differences, even our religious differences, not in isolation, but in relationship to each other. The author believes that this world was created by God to be a peaceful existence, but others still believe that it is part of a big universe that has not yet discovered by science. Those are called scientism. Scientism restricts human inquiry as it only believes that the real knowledge is scientific knowledge and anything else is false or a belief (Burnett,
According to Shelly & Miller (2016), the worldviews are the most fundamental and encompassing views of reality shared by a people in a culture. Furthermore, they can provide the cultural lenses that shape how we see the world, and they give meaning to life, both personally and humanity as a whole. Therefore, this author believes that her worldview has greatly influenced her upbringing, and everything around her impacts her decision and interpretation on what it is good or bad. In this paper, she will take a look at her personal worldview and discuss it as it is related to pluralism, scientism, postmodernism, and as well as the seven basic worldview questions by Sire.
What is Prime Reality?
According to Sire (2015), the prime reality is God. The author believes that God is real and the creator of all. Also, she believes that humans are made with the capacity to relate to God in a personal way that has supported our respect for each person. However, not everybody believes there is only one true God. For those, …show more content…
Therefore, it is unlikely for someone who has a less religious foundation not to get confused and overwhelmed. By all means, this is why pluralism is very important, and just because someone has a different belief than someone’s else doesn’t mean they should not get along. According to Eck (2016), pluralism is not relativism, but the encounter of commitments, which means holding our deepest differences, even our religious differences, not in isolation, but in relationship to each other. The author believes that this world was created by God to be a peaceful existence, but others still believe that it is part of a big universe that has not yet discovered by science. Those are called scientism. Scientism restricts human inquiry as it only believes that the real knowledge is scientific knowledge and anything else is false or a belief (Burnett,