Christian Worldview Concepts

Christian Worldview and Medical Ethics - Part I

Creation, Fall, Redemption, Consummation

Any worldview that describes itself as Christian must flow from four essential components — Creation, Fall, Redemption and Consummation. The flow of history is His-story — the story of God's creative acts, the entrance of corruption and decay into God's good creation, the divine plan for redeeming all that has been corrupted and the ultimate consummation of God's redemptive plan in the creation of a New Heaven and New Earth. By viewing all of human history as the story of God's creative and redemptive providence supplies the medical practitioner with a conceptual roadmap for a better understanding of natural systems, including those of the human body, and the interplay of those systems within the physical environment and within human communities. In short, to best understand the patient as a person, a physician must possess a proper understanding of the Designer who designed all that exists.