The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 71): So, How Should We Then Live?
In his book, The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark said the following in regards to Christianity and Western Civilization: “Christianity created Western Civilizat...
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The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 70): The 21st Century: Mounting Pressures and Crumbling Foundations
Forty years ago, Francis Schaeffer came out with How Should We Then Live? in which he provided an overview of western culture from the time of ancient Rome, up ...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 69): Postmodernism and Michel Foucault–Systems of Power
In his book, Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?, James K.A. Smith discusses three major postmodern thinkers, and (in my opinion) not only successfully articulates h...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 68): Enter the Postmodernists–Jacques Derrida and Jean-Francois Lyotard
If you have grown up within Evangelicalism over the past few decades, the term “postmodernism” is probably somewhat of a boogeyman—the catch-all term that symbo...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 67): Israel is Not God’s People; the Middle East Problems are not all the United States’ Fault
In light of the previous two posts, in which I tried to sketch out a brief overview of both the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the past hundred years, and wh...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 66): The Complicated Mess that is the US Involvement in the Middle East
Most Americans know something about America’s involvement in the Middle East. Most Americans know vaguely, or have at least heard about, the Israeli-Palestinian...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 65): US Involvement in the Middle East–The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
One of the hot-button issues in America today that normally divides among political party lines is that of the United States military involvement throughout the...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 64): 20th Century Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism (You’re going to learn a few things you didn’t know)
In the past few Worldview posts, we have taken a look at some of the most influential people and events in the first part of the 20th century: Vladimir Lenin, M...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 63): Margaret Mead and Alfred Kinsey–Sex is on the Menu
In this post, I focus on two people from the first half of the 20th century who have had a rather profound effect on modern attitudes toward sex, although you m...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 62): Sigmund Freud, and His Scientific Claims that Religion is an Illusion
Within a short span of ten years, not only did Lenin, Sanger, and Hitler all write their seminal works, but Sigmund Freud also contributed what was to be one of...