Subscribe to Posts
the problem with cheap worldview talk
Thirty years ago, evangelicals started talking about “worldviews.” I first remember hearing it from Francis Schaeffer. It began innocently enough–as an attempt on the part of evangelicals to become a little more thoughtful about the faith. But a hundred years of separating the head from the heart, as if there are two homes within which to house your faith–and we know which one is superior–had taken their toll. Soon “worldview” was reduced to another piece of the evangelical apologetic armor, a little pop anthropology to go with our pop psychology. People sent their high school kids away for a month to learn about “the Christian worldview” and its nemesis “the secular humanist worldview.”
Read the rest of this entry »