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Title: Worldviews in Conflict by Ronald H. Nash ISBN: 0-310-57771-3 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 10 August, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Decent Introduction to Apologetics
Comment: Ronald H. Nash comes across as someone who is a lot smarter than he's letting himself seem. I haven't read his other books, but I imagine they must be more philosophical and aimed at a more educated audience than is "Worldviews in Conflict."
This is a problem. There's nothing necessarily wrong with popular-level apologetics books--I enjoyed Lee Strobel's "Case for Christ" and "Case for Faith," for example--as long as the author is comfortable writing in this style. Nash can't seem to decide who he's writing for.
Still, if this is your first experience with naturalism, the New Age movement, and terms like "epistemology" and "world view," I imagine that "Worldviews in Conflict" is as good a place to start as any. It's not Nash's fault I've heard this all before. I don't think I'm his target audience anyway.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good for starters
Comment: This book is good for those starting out in understanding worldviews. Nash does his best at trying to help the novice understand the basics of worldview thinking explaining as much as he can in layman's terms. Resources for further study are endorsed in the footnotes.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Reasonable Introduction But Do Not Stop Here
Comment: For a person just becoming acquainted with the concept of a worldview this book is probably a reasonable place to start. For example, the definition that Nash gives at the beginning of Chapter 1 is quite a good brief definition. His discussion of the major elements of a worldview and his descriptions of the three worldviews that he considers in any detail, Christian theism, naturalism, and the new age movement, are all reasonable introductions.
I have concerns with Nash's attempts to logically 'prove' points in favor of Christian theism or against the other two worldviews, however. I am a believing Christian but reading a number of the 'proofs' left me shaking my head in wonderment. And, as other reviewers have pointed out, Nash tends to turn to quotes from C. S. Lewis and others in his proofs a bit too much for me.
Try this book as an introduction, but don't stop here. James Sire's book, "The Universe Next Door" has a very similar approach, but it covers more worldviews, presents an excellent exposition of how the worldviews covered evolved in response to previous worldviews, and it covers these topics in a bit more depth. Even so, some of Sire's arguments left me shaking my head also.
It is also informative to search deeper and read presentations of worldviews, such as naturalism, written by proponents of these worldviews. For example I recommend Sigmund Freud's 'The Question of a Weltanschauung' in his "New Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis."
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Title: The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog by James W. Sire ISBN: 0830818995 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by J. P. Moreland, William Lane Craig ISBN: 0830826947 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Worldview: The History of a Concept by David K. Naugle, Arthur Frank Holmes ISBN: 0802847617 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism by Douglas R. Groothuis ISBN: 0830822283 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: 28 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Primer on Postmodernism by Stanley J. Grenz ISBN: 0802808646 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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