Christian Worldview Research Paper

A religious belief is a belief in something as divine per se. There are three types of religious beliefs today pagan type, pantheistic type and. The pagan type is the divine per se is part of the world not outside of it. The pantheistic type, the divine is all there is. The "biblical" type, God is the divine per se and the universe is the non-divine (Clouser, 2008:24). The Christian worldview was influenced by the birth of Jesus Christ. God is the Creator, redeemer, and he also sustains the universe. He reveals himself through his Word, and the church is God's representation on earth. Therefore there essay is about the Christian world view.
B. PROBLEM STATEMENT
How did Judaic monotheism and the Classical Greek Elements, including the Platonic …show more content…
HYPOTHESIS
Judaic monotheism and the Classical Greek Elements, including the Platonic inheritance, influenced the development of the Christian Worldview by emphasising in there divine per se, and that there is someone or something that is greater than us. They also brought the importance of …show more content…
Platonic principles are that there is a transcendent reality of eternal perfection, the universe is governed by the rule of the divine wisdom, and spiritual matters are more important than material matters, lastly also Christ is seen as an archetype of all existence (Tarnas 2010:101). Socrates focuses on the tending of the soul, its experience of divine justice after death, the carefulness to control the passions and desires in the service of the good and true, the ethical principle that it is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one, and the belief in death as a transition to more abundant life (Tarnas 2010:102). Now Christianity was regarded as the true consummation of philosophy, with the gospel as the great meeting ground of Hellenism and Judaism.
"Augustine held that the Platonic Forms existed within the creative mind of God, and that the ground of reality is beyond the physical world, its only available only through a radical inward-turning of the soul" (Tarnas 2010:103). Due to Platonism with its transcendent Ideas, Christian theologians taught that to discover Christ is to discover the truth of the universe and the truth of one's own being in one unitary light (Tarnas 2010:102). The philosopher's private spiritual rise was now, through the image of the

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