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Worldview: The History of a Concept
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Overview
Conceiving 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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780802847614 |
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Publisher: | Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company |
Publication date: | 07/16/2002 |
Pages: | 406 |
Sales rank: | 893,728 |
Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.84(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword | xiii | |
Preface | xv | |
Prologue: Uncle Andrew in C. S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew | 1 | |
1. | The Wonder of Worldview I: Protestant Evangelicalism | 4 |
Original Worldview Thinkers in Protestant Evangelicalism | 5 | |
James Orr | 6 | |
Gordon H. Clark and Carl F. H. Henry | 14 | |
Abraham Kuyper | 16 | |
Herman Dooyeweerd | 25 | |
Francis A. Schaeffer | 29 | |
Conclusion and Questions | 31 | |
2. | The Wonder of Worldview II: Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy | 33 |
Roman Catholicism | 33 | |
Catholicism as Worldview | 34 | |
A "Worldviewish" Pope | 38 | |
Eastern Orthodoxy | 44 | |
Orthodoxy and Worldview | 44 | |
A Sacramental Worldview | 46 | |
Conclusion | 52 | |
3. | A Philological History of "Worldview" | 55 |
Word Studies on Weltanschauung | 55 | |
The First Use of Weltanschauung in Immanuel Kant | 58 | |
The Use of Weltanschauung in German and Other European Languages | 59 | |
Weltanschauung and "Worldview" in the English-Speaking World | 64 | |
Conclusion | 66 | |
4. | A Philosophical History of "Worldview": The Nineteenth Century | 68 |
"Worldview" in G. W. F. Hegel | 68 | |
"Worldview" and "Lifeview" in Soren Kierkegaard | 73 | |
"Worldview" in Wilhelm Dilthey | 82 | |
"Worldview" and Perspectivism in Friedrich Nietzsche | 98 | |
Concluding Implications | 104 | |
5. | A Philosophical History of "Worldview": The Twentieth Century I | 108 |
"Worldview" in Edmund Husserl | 108 | |
"Worldview" in Karl Jaspers | 121 | |
"Worldview" in Martin Heidegger | 128 | |
Concluding Implications | 146 | |
6. | A Philosophical History of "Worldview": The Twentieth Century II | 148 |
"Worldview" and "World Picture" in Ludwig Wittgenstein | 148 | |
Donald Davidson on "Conceptual Schemes" | 162 | |
"Worldview" and Postmodernity | 173 | |
Concluding Implications | 185 | |
7. | A Disciplinary History of "Worldview" I: The Natural Sciences | 187 |
Michael Polanyi's Tacit Dimension and Personal Knowledge in the Natural Sciences | 188 | |
Thomas Kuhn's Paradigm Revolution in the Philosophy of Science | 196 | |
Concluding Implications | 206 | |
8. | A Disciplinary History of "Worldview" II: The Social Sciences | 209 |
"Worldview" in Psychology | 211 | |
Sigmund Freud: "The Question of a Weltanschauung" | 212 | |
C. G. Jung: "Psychotherapy and a Philosophy of Life" | 218 | |
"Worldview" in Sociology | 222 | |
Karl Mannheim: "On the Interpretation of Weltanschauung" | 222 | |
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann: The Sociology of Knowledge and Sacred Canopy | 227 | |
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Worldview and Ideology | 233 | |
"Worldview" in Cultural Anthropology | 238 | |
Michael Kearney: Worldview | 239 | |
Robert Redfield: The Primitive and Modern Worldviews | 245 | |
Concluding Implications | 249 | |
9. | Theological Reflections on "Worldview" | 253 |
Worldviews and "Worldview" | 253 | |
Christian Worldview and "Worldview" | 259 | |
Issues of Objectivity | 260 | |
Issues of Subjectivity | 267 | |
Issues of Sin and Spiritual Warfare | 274 | |
Issues of Grace and Redemption | 284 | |
Summary and Conclusion | 289 | |
10. | Philosophical Reflections on "Worldview" | 291 |
Worldview and Semiotics | 292 | |
Worldview and Narrative | 297 | |
Worldview and Reason | 303 | |
Worldview and Hermeneutics | 310 | |
Worldview and Epistemology | 321 | |
Summary and Conclusion | 329 | |
11. | Concluding Reflections | 331 |
Dangers of Worldview | 331 | |
Benefits of Worldview | 339 | |
Final Conclusion | 344 | |
Epilogue: Eustace in C. S. Lewis's The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" | 346 | |
Appendix A | Synopses of Additional Evangelical Worldview Contributions | 349 |
James H. Olthuis | 349 | |
Brian J. Walsh and J. Richard Middleton | 350 | |
Albert M. Wolters | 352 | |
Arthur F. Holmes | 352 | |
James W. Sire | 354 | |
Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey | 355 | |
Appendix B | A Bibliography of Books on the Christian Worldview Not Addressed in This Volume | 357 |
Works Cited | 360 | |
Index | 378 |