Perspectives: Understanding and Evaluating Today's World Views

by Norman L. Geisler and William D. Watkins

If you desire to undestand people better, and to communicate the gospel more effectively in our diversified culture, theis book is essential. It will provide a solid foundation for building your... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898400732
• ISBN13: 9780898400731
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Here's Life Pub
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Assessing world views

This is an outstanding book in assessing various world and life views. One of its most practical chapters was, "Choosing a world view," which includes not only how not to choose a world view, but also some essential elements in choosing a world view. I found it to be a helpful summary of the main points to check when assessing any world view. A couple of the highlights of this chapter were: 1. "Rational inconsistencies are common kinds of cracks" in a world view (p. 232). 2. "Unless a world view can encompass in some meaningful way all the data of the world, it is not a world view. Each world view must be evaluated in terms of how it assimilates the facts of experience" (p. 237). Elsewhere Geisler & Watkins wrote: "God does not permit evil without a good purpose. Even physical evil has a moral impact. For 'God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world'[C. S. Lewis]" (p. 34). Highly recommended.