Biblical Worldview

What is the Difference between a Christian World View and Islamic World View?

William Gordon

Making of the Christian Mind, 15FA GENE 100

Instructor: Dr. Joel Solomon

September 27, 2015

I will look at the difference between a Christian Worldview and an Islamic Religion Worldview shared by many Muslims today and the stark contrasts between the two. We will look at specific examples of how each religion views different topics and how each belief is translated and carried out into the world.

Christians and Muslims tend to misunderstand each other in part because they use the same biblical words but those words have a significantly different meaning and context in each religion. Another reason for conflict between the two religions is the unrecognized differences in each worldview.

What is Islam?

“Islam is a religion, of course, but not primarily a theology. Islam is a religion with one major creed — the shahada or confession that “God is one and Muhammad is his messenger.” This means that if we think of misunderstand what Islam is.” (Anyabwile)

As Stated by Thabiti Anyabwile in his sermon on Confronting Islam with the mind of Christ, Islam is not an institution such as a mosque or church but primarily an identity. When people see themselves as being Christians, a lot of them retain a primary identifier such as a categorization. For example, African-American Christians, Baptist Christians, and so on. Most often than not those other identifiers come first. Now in contrast to that Islam reverses that philosophy. Of first importance in Islam is to be Muslim; the second thing is to belong to a national or ethnic category.

All Muslims believe brotherhood and solidarity are the main focus and makes secondary our way of thinking which is so often prominent. Through its earliest history of conquest and conversion, past the great Caliphates and empires, to the development of its laws and traditions, there grew solidarity,...