Sire's Definition Of Worldview Essay

James W. Sire’s definition of a worldview leaves an open opportunity for someone to relate their own definition of a worldview to his. I think that in a way it summarizes all the theories beliefs mention in the last two chapters. Sire’s statement “..more or less consistent with each other, more or less unconsciously held, more or less true.”(Sire, 19) to me is meaning that a worldview of one person may be completely different to another. A worldview may be unconsciously held in a person's mind due to the culture they were raised in, or due to their ability to understand or perceive life. This concept brings me to Wilhelm Dilthey, a theology student, who began but never finished the study of christian worldview (WWW.Platosanford.edu). Dilthey broke down worldviews into three different categories, religious, poetic and metaphysical which was further broken down into naturalism, idealism of freedom and objective idealism. One who practices naturalism might have a different worldview than an idealist because they think all things come from natural properties where one who practices idealism may have a worldview that suggests supernatural or unrealistic causes. Which brings me to when Sire states “..and brought to mind only when we are challenged by a foreigner from another ideological universe.”(Sire, 19). …show more content…
a worldview is a set of beliefs about the most important issues in life….”(Nash, 40). Now this would be a worldview that one has in their conscious mind, they see and understand the most important issues in life and develop their worldview from that. Nash focuses on 5 different questions along the lines of, is there a god? How did the world get here? How do we know the truth? What is the difference between right and wrong? What is a human being?(www.biblicaltrainging.org) I find Ronald Nash's worldview to be very simplistic yet and very relatable in a way if someone were to think of the roots of how everything started and created this