7 Major Worldviews
- Chad Lee
- Jan 7
- 1 min read
What is a worldview? A worldview is how someone views the world. It includes one's philosophy of life, reality, and God.
A worldview is how someone views the world.
The chart below will cover the seven basic worldviews. It presents the seven main views of God, and it is adapted from H. Wayne House, Charts of Christian Theology & Doctrine (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1992), 30-33. Christianity falls within the Theism view (which is highlighted in gray below).
Major Worldviews | Basic Description |
Atheism | No God(s) |
Polytheism | Many Gods |
Panentheism | One God; God is finite and identified with the world. God is distinct from the world but inseperable from it. |
Finite godism | One God; God is finite but beyond the universe; God acts within the universe in limited ways. |
Pantheism | One God; God is infinite and identified with the world. Everything is God. God is impersonal. |
Deism | One God; God is transcendent (beyond the universe) and infinite but does not intervene in the world. |
Theism | One God; God is personal, infinite, and transcendent (beyond the universe) but acts within it. |