Spirituality: A Christian Worldview

Introduction

A "worldview" is a way of pondering over reality and truth. A world view is an arrangement of presuppositions which we hold about the basic make-up of our world. There is no single, endless supply of spirituality. Spirituality is a broad idea with space for many viewpoints. In general, it incorporates a feeling of association with an option that is greater than ourselves, and it typically includes a search for meaning in life. A broad, inclusive definition is: spirituality offers meaning to somebody’s life and draws one to transcend him. It is a broader idea than religion, although that is one outflow of spirituality. Other expressions incorporate prayer, meditation, interactions with others or nature, and relationship with God

Waaijman states that the traditional meaning of spirituality is different and it is supposed to be a procedure of re-formation whose goal is to recoup the original shape of man, the image of God. Pluralism is a situation in which people of various social classes, religions, races are together in a general public yet keep on having their distinctive hobbies and traditions. Scientism is confidence in the universal applicability of the investigative approach and system, and the view that empirical science constitutes the most authoritative worldview or most valuable part of human learning to the exclusion of other viewpoints. Postmodernism was a development in architecture that rejected the modernist, avant garde, passion for the new. Postmodernism is a late 20th-century development characterized by broad skepticism, relativism; a general suspicion of reason; and an acute sensitivity to the part of philosophy in asserting and maintaining political and financial

Our answer for this question can be determined if we can see the world as to what it represents. Whether we see the world as created or autonomous, as chaotic or efficient, as matter or spirit; or whether we emphasize our subjective, personal relationship to the world or its objectivity apart from us.

3. What is a human being?

A human being is a part of this world which has been awarded with high intelligence. In the modern world, we can say that a human being is nothing but a profoundly complex machine, a resting god, a person made in the image of God, a naked ape.

4. What happens to a person at death?

As of now, we don’t know what happens after death scientifically. Using God on our side, we say that personal eradication, or transformation to a higher state, or reincarnation, or departure to a shadowy existence on "the other side1” must happen to a person at death.

5. Why is it possible to know anything at all?

We are tempted to the idea that we are made in the image of an all-knowing God or that consciousness and rationality grew under the possibilities of survival in a long procedure of development.

6. How do we know what is right and