Making Sense of Your World

Making Sense of Your World

  • Submitted By: skhhassan
  • Date Submitted: 04/27/2009 6:38 PM
  • Category: Religion
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“Making Sense of Your World” is an interesting introduction to contemporary Christian philosophy and apologetics. The goal of the authors is an explication and provision of a Christian worldview in light of competing religious and philosophical positions. Making Sense grapples with a number of historic problems and human responses including anthropology, ontology, pluralism, evil and the development of a Christian point of view. The material is readable and creatively presented and interspersed with quotations from experts in a variety of fields and relevant case studies. It can be loosely placed in the current tradition of evangelical self-critique alongside such works as David Wells's No Place for Truth. The work is divided into two sections: Part 1, "A View of the World" and Part 2, "A View for the World." The first section deals primarily with an analysis of competing worldviews, for example, a comparison of naturalism, transcendentalism and theism and their prospective impact upon peoples' religious ideology. In naturalism we discover the roots of atheism, humanism and hedonism, while transcendentalism represents a cover term for New-Age spirituality including pantheism, panentheism and polytheism. A theistic perspective, on the other hand, lends itself to deistic explanations as well as a more traditional God concept. In this way, Making Sense is a book about gaining perspective; it is the stuff of religious philosophy comprehending roots and influences including societal and even subconscious populist positions which subtly oppose a biblical Weltanschauung. Consider the following: "The array of worldview options present in the United States is vast and confusing. Nowhere is this more clearly seen than in the world of entertainment, especially Hollywood films. The big box office draws offer a kaleidoscope of worldviews that no doubt contributes to the desultory quality of intellectual life in America. Atheistic view of life and world is rarely treated as...

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