Worlds Apart: A Handbook on Worldviews
Overview
Worlds Apart is a compendium of the major world views, written from a Christian perspective. The authors introduce the meaning and function of a world view, and then explore the seven major world views of our day: theism, atheism, pantheism, panentheism, deism, finite godism, and polytheism.
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Key Features
- Suggestions for further reading
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Product Details
- Title: Worlds Apart: A Handbook on Worldviews
- Authors: Norman L. Geisler and William D. Watkins
- Publisher: Baker
- Publication Date: 1989
- Pages: 295
About Norman L. Geisler
Norman L. Geisler has taught at university and graduate levels for nearly 50 years and has spoken, traveled, or debated in all 50 states and in 26 countries. He holds a BA and MA from Wheaton College, a ThB from William Tyndale College, and a PhD in philosophy from Loyola University.
After his studies at Wheaton, he became the graduate assistant in the Bible-philosophy department at the college. He has since taught Bible, apologetics and philosophy at Detroit Bible College, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Dallas Theological Seminary, and was the dean of Liberty Center for research and scholarship in Lynchburg, VA. In 1992, he cofounded and served as the president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, until 2006. Currently, he is a professor of theology and apologetics at SES.
Top Highlights
“A world view is a way one views the whole world. And since people have vastly different views of the world, depending on the perspective from which they view the world, it is clear that one’s world view makes a world of difference. A world view is a way of viewing or interpreting all of reality. It is an interpretive framework through which or by which one makes sense out of the data of life and the world.” (Page 11)
“Socrates said, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ And the unexamined world view is not worth living by.” (Page 9)
“There are some differences, however, between a normal pair of glasses and a world view. For one thing, world-view glasses are worn continually. They are the enduring lenses by which one interprets everything he sees. A world view is not put on the bedstand at night. One even dreams within the framework of his world view. It is, in fact, the integrating center of one’s entire personality.” (Page 12)
“For now it is sufficient to note that world views do make a world of difference not only in how one thinks but also in how and why one acts.” (Pages 18–19)
“Chance does not explain the origin of all things; an intelligent cause is needed.” (Page 62)
- Title: Worlds Apart: A Handbook on World Views
- Authors: Norman Geisler, William D. Watkins
- Edition: 2nd ed.
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 1991
- Logos Release Date: 2002
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Cosmology; God
- ISBNs: 0801038294, 9780801038297
- Resource ID: LLS:42.20.33
- Resource Type: text.monograph.handbook
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T20:20:29Z