A Comparison Chart

The contrasts in the table reveal four very different ways of understanding reality, the self, and the ethical life. Evangelical Christianity grounds everything in a personal God and a linear story of creation and redemption; Wilber’s Integral Theory sees the world as an evolutionary unfolding of consciousness; Dawkins‑style Humanism reduces meaning to the physical and the psychological; and the three‑resolution metaphysics approaches reality as a dynamic, layered unity where depth, form, and lived experience interpenetrate. What emerges is not a hierarchy of worldviews but a map of their assumptions. Christianity offers certainty and moral clarity but depends on a supernatural agent; Humanism offers intellectual rigour but flattens the interior and symbolic dimensions of life; Wilber offers a grand synthesis but leans heavily on developmental teleology. By contrast, the three‑resolution model avoids both supernaturalism and reductionism, treating meaning, structure, and experience as real without requiring a personal deity or a cosmic plan. It suggests that ethics arises not from obedience or evolution or biology alone, but from the delicate work of increasing coherence while honouring presence. The differences show how each worldview answers the same perennial questions — what is real, what matters, and how should we live — and how the answers shape the kind of human life each framework makes possible.