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Philip Johnson on Worldview

Posted By Paul on February 14, 2005

One of the books that I am currently reading is Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity by Nancy Pearcey.

In the forward, by Phillip Johnson, I found this quote to be very enlingtening to me. I’ve kept coming back to it in my mind; I think it’s important that I fully understand it…

It would be an understatement to say that worldview is an important topic. I would rather say that understanding how worldviews are formed, and how they guide or confine thought, is the essential step toward understanding everything else. Understanding worldview is a bit like trying to see the lens of one’s own eye. We do not ordinarily see our own worldview, but we see everything else by looking through it. Put simply, our worldview is the window by which we view the world, and decide, often subconsciously, what is real and important, or unreal and unimportant.