My guest this week on The Flâneur and the Philosopher is Simon P. Kennedy, author of Against Worldview: Reimaging Christian Formation as Growth in Wisdom (Lexham Press).
In his book, Kennedy argues that the current understanding of worldview is faulty. It envisions a Christian worldview as something that can be downloaded and deployed at the outset of Christian education. On the contrary, Kennedy argues that a Christian worldview is something that is built gradually by the process of education and exploration of God’s world.
After reading and reviewing Kennedy’s book, I had to have him on to discuss where the idea of a Christian worldview goes wrong - and what it still gets right. We discuss its ties to philosophical idealism and presuppositional apologetics, try to sort through Kuyper’s contribution, and explore an alternative, which he and I agree is Christian realism.
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Simon P. Kennedy is a Resident Fellow at the University of Queensland and non-resident fellow at the Danube Institute. He writes on X at @spkenn1 and at Academia.edu at https://uq.academia.edu/SimonKennedy.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
7:16 The Presuppositionalist Phase
17:45 Where Worldview Goes Wrong
24:55 What’s Up w/ Kuyper?
32:46 A "Combat Concept"
40:05 Christian Realism
49:07 Simon's Secular Scholarship
57:14 Worldview in Negative World
1:01:42 Jordan Peterson
1:05:25 Reception in Moscow, Idaho
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to sort out whether there is such a thing as marriage and family idolatry and, if so, what it is.
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