ABSTRACT
Worldview. Religion faces the fundamental issues of the human situation, it provides answers to basic questions of life. Both traditional religion and modern psychology deliver a worldview: they give a vision of what a good life is, they provide legitimation of a social order, and they deliver specific techniques for ordering mental and social life. The Christianity that ruled the medieval age eroded throughout the modern era. Man replaced God as the centre of the universe. God receded from view as the romantic thinkers of the 19th century translated key religious themes and values into nontheological terms. Nietzsche (1960) gave the final diagnosis in 1878: “God is dead”. Theology as a truth guarantee was replaced by the new sciences, and psychology took over religion’s task of providing guidelines for human life.
