Hidden Worldviews: Eight Cultural Stories That Shape Our Lives

by Steve Wilkens

Other authorsMark L. Sanford (Author)
Paperback, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

261

Publication

IVP Academic (2009), 218 pages

Description

Why do we buy what we buy, vote the way we vote, eat what we eat and say what we say? Why do we have the friends we have, and work and play as we do? It's our choice? Yes, but there are forces, often unseen, that shape every decision we make and every action we take.These hidden, life-shaping values and ideas are not promoted through organized religions or rival philosophies but fostered by cultural habits, lifestyles and the institutional structures of society. Steve Wilkens and Mark Sanford shine a spotlight on the profound challenges to Christianity and faithful Christian living that come from worldviews that comprise the cultural soup we swim in.The authors show how to detect the individualism, consumerism, nationalism, moral relativism, scientific naturalism, New Age thinking, postmodern tribalism and salvation as therapy that fly under our radar. Building on the work of worldview thinkers like James Sire, this book helps those committed to the gospel story recognize those rival cultural stories that compete for our hearts and minds.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

9 inches

ISBN

0830838546 / 9780830838547

UPC

884424994592
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