List the various definitions and descriptions of worldview found in the textbook
and lecture.
Set of assumptions to which one commits to serve as a framework for understanding
reality and shaping ones behavior
According to Chapter 1 in the textbook and Lecture 1, which worldview families
use both faith and reason?
All of them
What is the difference between private and shared worldviews?
1. Private Worldview: Personal view of the world, shaped by their life story
2. Shared Worldview: Foundational assumptions made as a community that are
commonly shared
When discussing worldviews, what is the difference between an open system and
a closed system?
1. Open System: Influenced by spiritual world
2. Closed System: Cannot be influenced by external forces because nothing external
exists
The concept that humanity is created in the image of God may refer to a number
of things. List four: two covered in the textbook and two covered in the lecture.
1. God's attributes are passed to humans (creativity, love, logic and reason, etc)
2. Humanity is to exercise dominion over what God created
3. God breathed the breath of life into us
4. God gives us worth
List three reasons for seeing humanity as the pinnacle of God's creation.
1. Its place at the end of the narrative
2. The amount of narrative space that the creation of humanity takes within the narrative
3. The interruption in the pattern of wording established when discussing the first five
days of creation in Genesis 1
List at least five characteristics of God emphasized in Psalm 145.
1. Righteous
2. Majesty
3. Gracious
4. Merciful
5. Good
How would you describe the nature of work God gave to Adam in the Garden of
Eden?
1. To keep and work the Garden
2. Kingly gardener and watchman
3. Expand the Garden
What is the prophecy in Genesis 3:15 known as and what does it mean?
1. "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her
offspring;
he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."
2. Struggle between man and sin