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Clark Coleman's avatar

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.

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Joel Carini's avatar

There are many for whom this is the case! My contention is that the presuppositionalist abuse is latent in the principles of worldview discourse.

However, it behooves me to spell out soon how worldview can be correctly and helpfully used, without coherentist epistemology. Thanks for the comment!

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Nicholas McDonald's avatar

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.

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Joel Carini's avatar

Thanks! Kuyper might be closer to Bavinck

In his treatment of common grace; I’d have to take a look again.

But Kuyperians and Van Tillians rely on common grace to do all the work that creation or nature ought to be doing. That’s why my Christian platen friend called it hocus-pocus. If secular moms loving their children is common grace, then it’s really just magic. 🙂

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