The Transforming Vision: Shaping a Christian World View

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InterVarsity Press, Oct 12, 1984 - Religion - 214 pages

Science, technology and economic growth motivate our society. Each is carried on with little regard for Christian concerns.

Brian Walsh and Richard Middleton yearn for change. They long to see Christianity penetrate the structures of society, reforming and remolding our culture. From scholarship in the universities to politics, business and family life, the Christian vision can transform our world.

To stimulate such change the authors analyze our troubled age, show us how it got that way and suggest a solution. Their clear presentation of a Christian world view forms the basis of their hope.

 

Contents

World View and Culture
15
Analyzing World Views
31
Based on Creation
43
Acknowledging the Fall
61
Transformed by Redemption
73
The Problem of Dualism
93
The Development of Dualism
107
The Rise of the Secular World View
117
The Gods of Our Age
131
ΙΟ A Christian Cultural Response
149
World View and Scholarship
163
Toward a Christian Philosophical Framework
175
Notes
187
A Bibliography We Cant Live Without
203
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About the author (1984)

Brian J. Walsh serves as the Christian Reformed Church chaplain to the University of Toronto. With Richard J. Middleton, he wrote The Transforming Vision and Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be (both IVP). He is also the author of Langdon Gilkey (University Press of America, 1992) and Subversive Christianity (Alta Vista College Press, 1994).

J. Richard Middleton is Professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis at Northeastern Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, New York.

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TitleThe Transforming Vision: Shaping a Christian World View
AuthorsBrian J. Walsh, J. Richard Middleton
PublisherInterVarsity Press, 1984
ISBN0877849730, 9780877849735
Length214 pages
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