World Views

Question 1

Reflection

Answer 1

Taking time to stop and examine something in our experience and to think deeply about it

Question 2

World view

Answer 2

A set of ideas about what the world is like

Question 3

Experiencing God

Answer 3

Being aware of God’s mysterious presence

Question 4

Theism

Answer 4

Believing in God

Question 5

Atheism

Answer 5

A view that denies the existence of God or gods

Question 6

Agnosticism

Answer 6

Belief that we cannot truly know for certain whether or not God exists

Question 7

Fundamentalism

Answer 7

The view that a sacred text is factual account to be taken literally, word for word

Question 8

Materialism

Answer 8

Believe that only things we see, hear and smell are real - no God

Question 9

Secularism

Answer 9

Belief that public life should be carried out without reference to religion