Building a Christian World View: Vol. 1, God, Man, and Knowledge

by W. Andrew Hoffecker (Editor)

Clearly sets forth the key elements of a biblical view of the world and life, contrasting them with prominent notions of God, man, and truth throughout history.

Genres: Christianity

343 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1986

Reviews

[Francesko Kola · Rating 4 out of 5]

The authors believe that the knowledge of God is the foundation for reason, sense experience, intuition, and authority. Analyzing the nature of God, man, and knowledge, the authors probe into the Old and New Testaments, Classical Greek Humanism, the Council of Nicea, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, the Reformation etc. This volume would make an excellent companion text for an introductory philosophy or a history of psychology class.
The Reformation is almost like the golden age of faith. The Church today needs to go back rather than forwards.

[Douglas Wilson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good.

[Liam Marsh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I highly enjoyed "Building a Christian Worldview"- it was clear in its formation of epistemology, but it read more like a Systematic Theology of a Worldview then a cohesive summary. One theme that is constant throughout is pre-supposing the Doctrine of the Trinity to not fall into unbiblical Transcendence or unbiblical Immanence. It is clear that perhaps a Van-Tillian Pre-Suppositional apologetics influenced the authors (not a surprise since all the writers come from a Reformed Background). In the end, I immensely enjoyed the book as a reference to understanding the basics of the Christian Worldview.

[Jerome · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every Christian should have a biblical worldview. One of the reasons we (Christians) have such a hard time sharing and defending our faith is because we buy into the presuppositions of non-biblical worldviews (e. g. "natural science"), not understanding that they are espousing the presuppositions of their worldview. this book is a needed corrective for every Christian wanting to understand the perennial issues in worldview analysis.

[goei.shimon · Rating 5 out of 5]

a volume 1 might be a great introductory reading to a 2nd volume. It talks about:
1. Theology (the knowledge of God) as a foundation of knowing the cosmology - the beginning of the universe. It dissects many opinions, thinking of many late philosophers from the ancient to modern time.
2. Anthropology (the knowledge of human) as a foundation of establish a society
3. Epistemology (the knowledge of perceiving) as a foundation of knowing ethics.

The three were mentioned and discussed thoroughly to give the idea how a presupposition (pre: before, presupposition: principles before all thinking), drives all our understanding and way of perceiving the world. It shows how a wrong presupposition will give wrong interpretation or perhaps any difficulties in making one.

this is a very good comprehensive study of worldview based on philosophy and Christianity view.

[Shelby Stafford · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was very good. I told my mom so many times how good it was along with reading quotes aloud, that I am afraid I started sounding like a broken record. The part on classical Greek would be especially good to read before reading "The Odyssey" and the like.
Now I need to get volume 2!

[Anthony Lawson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this interesting book many years ago.