How worldviews shape life
A worldview is a way of understanding life and reality. It may be religious or non-religious and it can shape choices, identity and community.
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Explain how beliefs influence individuals and communities
Key learning points
- • Belief and lived experience
- • Study with evidence
This lesson at a glance
- 25 minutes
- 9 parts to scroll through
- 3 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
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How worldviews shape life
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In a nutshell
Explain how beliefs influence individuals and communities
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Belief and lived experience
Two people within the same tradition may practise differently. Historians and social scientists therefore distinguish official teaching from lived religion.
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Study with evidence
Use sacred texts, objects, buildings, testimony and survey evidence. Ask who created each source and whether it represents one voice or a wider group.
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What is a worldview?
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Why distinguish teaching from lived religion?
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Which is useful evidence?
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Which of these are true?
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: How worldviews shape life
3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. What is a worldview?
2. Why distinguish teaching from lived religion?
3. Which is useful evidence?
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Your written work for this lesson
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Two teachings on forgiveness
In Christian teaching, Jesus is asked how many times a person should forgive. He answers not seven times but seventy-seven — meaning forgiveness should not be counted at all. The Lord's Prayer links the two directions together: forgive us as we forgive others.
In Islamic teaching, one of the names of God is al-Ghaffar, the Ever-Forgiving. Muslims are taught that God's mercy is greater than any wrong a person can do, and that those who pardon others are closer to God than those who take revenge.
Both traditions distinguish forgiving from forgetting. A person may forgive and still expect justice, and may seek safety from someone who has harmed them.
Original paraphrases written for Good Learning Co.
Reading questions
- What does each teaching say about how far forgiveness should go?
- Explain how a believer might use one of these teachings after being hurt by a friend.
- "Forgiving someone means letting them off." Give two views on this and say which is stronger, with reasons.
Reading and response
ReadingRead the lesson text again — especially any scripture, story or quotation — then write what it teaches and how a believer would use it.
2 paragraphs (PEE)
Extended writing
WritingAnswer the lesson's big question as an exam answer would: a clear view, a reason, a teaching or example as evidence, and a different view weighed against yours.
250–350 words
Belief in your own words
WritingExplain what this belief means and give one example of how it changes what people do.
8–10 sentences
Different views
WritingWrite two different views on this question and say which you find stronger, and why.
2 paragraphs
Symbol or belief diagram
DiagramDraw the symbol, place of worship or idea from this lesson with labels explaining what each part means, then photograph it.
1 labelled drawing
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