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305 To See or Not to See: A Review Essay of Michael Palmer's Elements of a Christian Worldview1 Amos Yong The appearance in 1976 of James Sire's book on worldviews ' marked the beginning of an intensive study of the topic among Christian thinkers and intellectuals which shows no signs of dissipa- tion.2 Books on worldviews that have appeared since can be broadly classified into three categories. The first may best be termed apolo- getic. Under this heading are efforts to compare and contrast the Christian worldview with and against its chief competitors: naturalism, secularism, cults and New Age movements, and Eastern philosophies and religions.3 A second, emerging model of worldview studies is comparative, deriving primarily from the discipline of comparative religion. Paradigmatic here is the work of religious studies scholar Ninian Smart who does not so much argue for the superiority of one worldview over another, but strives to lay out diverse worldviews side- by-side in order to facilitate comparison, dialogue, and understanding.4 The third genre of worldview studies-what I call formative-has been devoted to the analysis either of how worldviews are constructed, Michael Palmer, editor and contributing author, Elements of a Christian Worldview (Springfield, MO: Logion
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Published: Jan 1, 1999
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