World Rel. Quiz Review slideshow 9/2011 Trinity Episcopal School.

1. Someone has suggested that
all religions are the same at
heart — different paths to
the same place.
There are 3 basic stances in
response to this suggestion.
What are they?

3. Exclusivist

4. Exclusivist
Inclusivist

5. Exclusivist
Inclusivist
Pluralistic

7. Religion seeks to
answer the big
questions. What
are they?

8. The BIG Questions

9. The BIG Questions
• Who or what is the spiritual reality?

10. The BIG Questions
• Who or what is the spiritual reality?
• What about Creation?

11. The BIG Questions
• Who or what is the spiritual reality?
• What about Creation?
• Who are we, humans?

12. The BIG Questions
• Who or what is the spiritual reality?
• What about Creation?
• Who are we, humans?
• Where are we going? or is there a
purpose or goal?

13. The BIG Questions
• Who or what is the spiritual reality?
• What about Creation?
• Who are we, humans?
• Where are we going? or is there a
purpose or goal?
• How do we get there? or what practice
helps us reach the goal?

14. The BIG Questions
• Who or what is the spiritual reality?
• What about Creation?
• Who are we, humans?
• Where are we going? or is there a
purpose or goal?
• How do we get there? or what practice
helps us reach the goal?
• What happens after death? The ending?

15. A worldview is the framework of ideas,
beliefs, or presuppositions, not tested by
natural science, through which an
individual interprets the world and
interacts with it. It may be compared to a
pair of glasses through which one is able
to see and make sense of reality. Usually
the one “wearing the glasses” is
unaware of the lenses through which he
or she is looking.

17. A world view is
like lenses
through which
one views reality.

20. Religious World Views

22. Atheism

23. Atheism
Deism

24. Atheism
Deism
Pantheism

25. Atheism
Deism
Pantheism
Polytheism

26. Atheism
Deism
Pantheism
Polytheism
Monotheism

28. World View can change!

29. The Influence of a Leader
who casts a new vision

36. A Religious Conversion
or Revelation

37. The Great Awakening in the colonies
in the early 1700s

38. A Change in Science or Technology

39. A Change in Science or Technology

40. A Change in Science or Technology

41. A Change in Science or Technology

42. A Change in Science or Technology

44. World View can change!
Sometimes that’s a good thing!

50. Tell us about an
experience that changed
the way you view the
world.