World Views
The World Views
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The Christian World View
Historic Christianity confesses one God who created all things, who entered history in Jesus Christ, and who restores humanity through Christ's death and resurrection.
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The Catholic World View
Catholic Christianity confesses one triune God and receives his revelation through Scripture and Tradition, guarded by the Church Christ founded and its apostolic teaching office.
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Judaism
Judaism is the covenant faith of the people of Israel: one God chose them, gave them his Torah, and calls them to holiness and justice in this world.
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Islam
Islam is submission to the one God, Allah, who spoke finally through his prophet Muhammad; the Qur'an guides believers toward judgment, mercy, and paradise.
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Hinduism
Hinduism gathers many traditions around one conviction: the soul is bound to rebirth by karma, and liberation comes when it realizes its oneness with the divine.
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Buddhism
Buddhism teaches that suffering comes from craving and ignorance; by following the Buddha's Eightfold Path, a person can awaken and be freed from rebirth.
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Taoism
Taoism teaches that a nameless Way, the Tao, orders all things; wisdom is to stop forcing and live in harmony with its flow.
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Sikhism
Sikhism confesses one God, revealed through Guru Nanak and the ten Gurus; honest work, shared wealth, and remembrance of God lead to liberation.
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Confucianism
Confucianism teaches that a humane society grows from cultivated character: virtue learned through ritual propriety, study, and devotion to family, under Heaven's moral order.
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Shinto
Shinto is Japan's indigenous way of revering the kami; the sacred powers in shrines, mountains, rivers, and ancestors; and of living in gratitude and purity before them.
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Jainism
Jainism teaches that every living thing carries an eternal soul weighed down by karma, and that liberation comes by strict non-violence, truthfulness, and renunciation, without any creator god.
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Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism, the teaching of the prophet Zarathustra, sets one wise and good God, Ahura Mazda, against the destructive spirit, and calls every person to choose good thoughts, good words, and good deeds.
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Bahá'í
The Bahá'í Faith teaches that God is one, religion is one unfolding revelation, and humanity is one family now coming of age; its task is to build a just and peaceful world civilization.
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Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy is the church of the Greek-speaking East, holding the faith of the seven ecumenical councils, worshipping in the Divine Liturgy, and seeking theosis; the transformation of the human person by God's uncreated grace.
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Oriental Orthodoxy
Oriental Orthodoxy is the communion of the Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Malankara churches, confessing Christ in one united nature of God the Word incarnate, and keeping some of Christianity's oldest liturgies and monasteries.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is the family of churches born in the sixteenth-century Reformation, holding Scripture as the final authority and justification by grace through faith, and branching into Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and many other traditions.
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Lutheranism
Lutheranism is the Reformation tradition of Martin Luther, centered on justification by grace through faith, the distinction of law and gospel, and Christ truly present in word and sacrament.
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Reformed Christianity
Reformed Christianity is the tradition of Zwingli, Calvin, and the Westminster and Heidelberg confessions, ordered by God's sovereignty, covenant, and the regulated worship and disciplined life of the church.
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Anglicanism
Anglicanism is the tradition of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion, holding catholic order and reformed doctrine together through the Book of Common Prayer, the episcopate, and the appeal to Scripture, tradition, and reason.
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Baptist
Baptists are congregational churches of believers' baptism by immersion, holding the Bible as sole rule, the local church as autonomous under Christ, and religious liberty for all as a birthright of the gospel.
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Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism is the movement of the Spirit's restoration, expecting baptism in the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, healing, and prophecy as the normal life of the church, and now the largest and fastest-growing family in world Christianity.
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Anabaptism
Anabaptism is the radical Reformation tradition of believers' baptism, discipleship, nonviolence, and the separated church; the heritage of Mennonites, Amish, Hutterites, and Brethren, bought at the price of martyrdom.
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Adventism
Adventism is the family born in expectation of Christ's soon return, centered on the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which keeps the seventh-day Sabbath, proclaims the three angels' messages, and awaits the investigative judgment's close and the Advent.
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Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that Christ's original church was restored through the prophet Joseph Smith, with the Book of Mormon as another testament of Christ, living prophets, temples, and eternal families.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses are a worldwide preaching community expecting God's Kingdom under Christ to end this system at Armageddon, worshipping Jehovah alone, refusing blood transfusions, military service, and political involvement.
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Christian Science
Christian Science, founded by Mary Baker Eddy, teaches that God is divine Mind and that matter, sickness, and death are errors of mortal mind, overcome by understanding the spiritual reality Christ Jesus demonstrated.
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Unitarian Universalism
Unitarian Universalism is the liberal religious association formed from America's Unitarian and Universalist churches, covenanting congregations without a creed around shared principles, free conscience, and the search for truth in many sources.
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Quakerism
Quakerism, the Religious Society of Friends, began with George Fox's conviction that Christ has come to teach his people himself: worship in waiting silence, the Inner Light in every person, and testimonies of peace, equality, simplicity, and truth.
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Ahmadiyya
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in 1889, holds him to be the promised Mahdi and Messiah, preaches loyalty, education, and 'love for all, hatred for none,' and endures exclusion and persecution across the Muslim world.
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Sufism
Sufism is Islam's contemplative and mystical path: the purification of the heart through remembrance of God, discipleship under a master, and love, until the self's claims give way to God's presence.
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Secular Buddhism
Secular Buddhism keeps the Buddha's practice and ethics while setting aside rebirth, karma as cosmic law, and supernatural beings: a dharma for this life, tested in experience, associated above all with Stephen Batchelor.
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Secular Judaism
Secular Judaism keeps the Jewish people, its calendar, texts, languages, and ethics, while letting go of the commanding God: from the Bund and Yiddish culture to Humanistic Judaism's congregations and the kibbutz's rewritten festivals.
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