James W. Sire

Naming the Elephant

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this companion volume to The Universe Next Door, James W. Sire offers his refined definition of a worldview and addresses key questions about the history of worldview thinking, the existential and intellectual formation of worldviews, the public and private dimensions of worldviews and how worldview thinking can help us navigate an increasingly pluralistic universe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: InterVarsity Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780830840731
• ISBN-10: 0830840737
• Artikelnr.: 40868879

Autorenporträt

James W. Sire (Ph.D., University of Missouri), formerly a senior editor at InterVarsity Press, is the author of many books, including The Universe Next Door, Why Should Anyone Believe Anything at All?, Habits of the Mind and Apologetics Beyond Belief

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Camel, Kangaroo and Elephant
2. Worldview Definitions: From Dilthey to Naugle
3. First Things First: Being or Knowing
4. Flesh and Bones: Theoretical and Pretheoretical
5. Rational System, Way of Life and Master Story
6. Worldviews: Public and Private
7. Worldview: A Refined Definition
8. Intelligent People Who Clash by Day: Worldviews as a Tool for Analysis
Index