Worldview: The History of a ConceptConceiving of Christianity as a "worldview" has been one of the most significant events in the church in the last 150 years. In this new book David Naugle provides the best discussion yet of the history and contemporary use of worldview as a totalizing approach to faith and life. This informative volume first locates the origin of worldview in the writings of Immanuel Kant and surveys the rapid proliferation of its use throughout the English-speaking world. Naugle then provides the first study ever undertaken of the insights of major Western philosophers on the subject of worldview and offers an original examination of the role this concept has played in the natural and social sciences. Finally, Naugle gives the concept biblical and theological grounding, exploring the unique ways that worldview has been used in the Evangelical, Orthodox, and Catholic traditions. This clear presentation of the concept of worldview will be valuable to a wide range of readers. |
Contents
Uncle Andrew in C S Lewiss | 1 |
Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy | 33 |
A Philological History of Worldview | 55 |
Theological Reflections on Worldview | 253 |
Philosophical Reflections on Worldview | 291 |
Concluding Reflections | 331 |
Eustace in C S Lewiss | 346 |
Synopses of Additional | 349 |
which answers the question given in the title of the | 356 |
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Abraham Kuyper basic basis believers biblical C. S. Lewis Calvin Carl F. H. Henry Christ Christian View Christian worldview church cognitive concept conceptual schemes consciousness context cosmos creation cultural Davidson Dilthey Dilthey's divine doctrine Dooyeweerd epistemic epistemology evangelical existence existential experience fact faith Freud Friedrich Friedrich Nietzsche fundamental God's Grand Rapids heart Hegel Heidegger Heidegger's Herman Dooyeweerd hermeneutic history of worldview human Husserl idea intellectual interpretation Jaspers Jaspers's Karl Karl Jaspers Kierkegaard kind Kuhn Kuyper language lifeview Luckmann Martin Heidegger meaning metaphysical mind modern moral narrative nature Nietzsche objective objective idealism paradigms perspective philosophy Polanyi postmodern presuppositions question rational reality reason relativism religion religious says scientific semiotic social Søren Kierkegaard spiritual structure term theme theology theoretical theory things thinkers thinking thought tion tradition trans translated truth understanding University Press vision Weltanschauung Weltbild Wilhelm Dilthey Wittgenstein Wolters words world pictures York