Worldview Chart | Summit Ministries

See the World Clearly. Compare Ideas Side by Side.

Every belief system answers the same fundamental questions:

What is real?
What is true?
What is good?
What does it mean to be human?

Summit’s Worldview Chart brings clarity to the battle of ideas by placing today’s most influential worldviews side by side across theology, philosophy, ethics, biology, psychology, sociology, law, politics, economics, and history. Instead of vague labels or surface-level comparisons, this chart shows how ideas actually shape culture, institutions, and everyday life.

When students and adults can see how worldviews function, they gain confidence to discern truth, recognize false assumptions, and engage culture with wisdom rather than confusion.

Download the Worldview Chart as a PDF.

	Biblical Christianity	Islam	Secularism	Marxism	New Spirituality	Postmodernism
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Source	Bible	Qur’an, Hadith, Sunnah	Humanist Manifesto I, II & III	Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao	MacLaine, Spangler, Chopra, Walsch	Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Rorty
Theology [Greek: theos (God) + logos (word)]: The study of the existence (or non-existence), nature, and attributes of God.	Trinitarian Monotheism	Monotheism	Atheism	Atheism	Pantheism	Theological Suspicion
Philosophy [Greek: philo (love) + sophia (wisdom)]: The love of wisdom; the attempt to discover an explanation for the whole of existence or reality.	Dualism	Dualism	Naturalism & Materialism	Dialectical Materialism	Spiritual Monism	Anti-Realism
Ethics [Greek: ethikos (custom)]: The study of conduct, moral values, duties, actions, and ends.	Agape	Divine Command Theory	Moral Relativism or Utilitarianism	Proletariat Morality	Karma	Cultural Relativism
Biology [Greek bios (life) + logos (word)]: The study of living organisms.	Special Creation	Special Creation	Neo-Darwinian Evolution	Punctuated Equilibrium	Spiritual Evolution	Anti-Essentialism
Psychology [Greek: psyche (soul) + logos (word)]: The study of the soul, mind, and spirit.	Mind/Body Dualism (Fallen)	Mind/Body Dualism (un-fallen)	Mind/Body Monism (Self-Actualization)	Mind/Body Monism (Classical Conditioning)	Mind/Body Monism (Fourth Force)	Decentered Self
Sociology [French socio (social, society) + Greek: logos (word)]: The study of social institutions and society.	Sphere Sovereignty	Ummah	Personal Autonomy	Proletariat Society	Collective Consciousness	Social Construction
Law [English: lagu (code, rules)]: The study of principles of conduct or procedure which are expected to be observed.	Natural Law	Shariah Law	Legal Positivism	Proletariat Law	Self-Law	Critical Legal Studies
Politics [Greek: polis (city)]: The art of governing a city, state, or nation.	Subsidiarity	Islamic Theocracy	Progressivism	Statism	Autarchy	Political Pessimism or Liberalism
Economics [Greek: oikos (house) + nomia (rule)]: The rule or management of resources, whether by an individual or a society.	Biblical Stewardship	Shariah Economics	Economic Interventionism	Socialism	Universal Enlightened Production	Economic Interventionism
History [Latin: historia (information)]: The study of past places, persons, and events.	Redemptive Narrative	Pan-Islam	Social Progress	Historical Materialism	Evolutionary Godhood	Historical Revisionism

See the World Clearly. Compare Ideas Side by Side.

Download the Worldview Chart as a PDF.

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