Having the World in View: An Alternative to Worldview
My Contribution to American Reformer's Symposium on Worldview
At Worldview Camp, there were few s’mores but many seminars on what the Christian worldview entailed for politics, science, art, and dating. A young camper named Nicholas learned there “something that I never realized: Jesus had one clear opinion on everything.”1
While the instructors undoubtedly intended to teach the implications of Christianity for all of life, what they actually communicated was that Christians must have a narrow range of opinions on all things.
So begins my contribution to American Reformer’s symposium on the notion of Christian worldview.
My article, “Having the World in View: An Alternative to Worldview,” was published today at American Reformer.
In it, I detail my objections to the epistemology that often accompanies talk of worldview: Christian Coherentism.
I explain the contradiction between Christianity as a lens through which we interpret reality and Christianity as revealed in the things that have been made.
These are arguments I first formulated here on Substack and, recently, discussed with the author of Against Worldview, Simon P. Kennedy, another contributor to the symposium.
Instead of having a Christian worldview, let us aspire to have the world in view.
Also check out the introduction to the symposium, by Timon Cline, and Simon P. Kennedy’s contribution, “W-w Reformed.”
If every reference to "worldview" were replaced by "worldview as abused by presuppositionalism" then the whole series of posts you have written would make a lot more sense. It is obvious that the presuppositionalist abuse of the concept of worldview has been your primary or only experience of worldview thinking. That is not my experience (in fact I try to avoid presuppositionalism entirely), so a lot of this does not connect with me.
Hugely helpful on the distinction between Bavinck and Kuyper on common grace. I had no idea but it makes so much more sense to me, at least intuitively.