Worldview : the history of a concept / David K. Naugle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naugle, David K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity.

Physical Description:

xxii, 384 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., [2002]

Summary:

Conceiving of Christianity as a worldview has been one of themost significant events in the church in the last 150 years. In thisnew book David Naugle provides the best discussion yet of thehistory and contemporary use of worldview as a totalizing approachto faith and life.This informative volume first locates the origin of worldviewin the writings of Immanuel Kant and surveys the rapid proliferationof its use throughout the English-speaking world. Naugle thenprovides the first study ever undertaken of the insights of majorWestern philosophers on the subject of worldview and offers anoriginal examination of the role this concept has played in thenatural and social sciences. Finally, Naugle gives the concept biblicaland theological grounding, exploring the unique ways that world-viewhas been used in the Evangelical, Orthodox, and Catholictraditions.This clear presentation of the concept of of worldview will beof value to a wide range of readers.

Contents:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dangers of Worldview 331

Benefits of Worldview 339

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-377) and index.

ISBN:

0802847617

OCLC:

49261290