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What in the World Is Going On? - Identifying Hollow and Deceptive Worldviews
How does your Christian faith fit into the culture that we live in today? Non-Christian worldviews may be influencing your beliefs without you even realizing it.
Using Scripture passages and real-life examples, the author, Pastor David C. Thompson, explains the confessional Lutheran worldviews plus a number of truths about Secular Humanism, Pantheism, Modernism, and Postmodernism.
This book explains how other beliefs may creep into our lives through the media, college professors, and even popular books for children and teens. At the end of the book, there are study and discussion questions for each chapter. Read this book today and find out what is going on.
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Using Scripture passages and real-life examples, the author, Pastor David C. Thompson, explains the confessional Lutheran worldviews plus a number of truths about Secular Humanism, Pantheism, Modernism, and Postmodernism.
This book explains how other beliefs may creep into our lives through the media, college professors, and even popular books for children and teens. At the end of the book, there are study and discussion questions for each chapter. Read this book today and find out what is going on.
(From http://online.nph.net/p-1542-what-in-...)
99 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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March 21, 2024
Caring for Creation is commanded by Scripture, not a form of "Mother Earth" worship. This book is an absolutist view of one version of Lutheranism that puts the reader and author in judgement of others, which is very specifically not our place.
Oddly enough, despite Christ overturning the tables of the moneychangers in the temple, not one word in this book is dedicated to similar condemnation of the widespread problem in our society of financial exploitation, especially that of the poor and powerless.
Indeed, the writer seems uniquely blinded by their political views, warping their interpretation of Scripture to avoid critical examination of our failure to follow Christ's commands to heal and feed and serve. It's almost as if God needs to fit in the author's limited worldview rather than the author leaving room for the possibility that they do not indeed have all the right answers, as must be the case for we imperfect humans.
Oddly enough, despite Christ overturning the tables of the moneychangers in the temple, not one word in this book is dedicated to similar condemnation of the widespread problem in our society of financial exploitation, especially that of the poor and powerless.
Indeed, the writer seems uniquely blinded by their political views, warping their interpretation of Scripture to avoid critical examination of our failure to follow Christ's commands to heal and feed and serve. It's almost as if God needs to fit in the author's limited worldview rather than the author leaving room for the possibility that they do not indeed have all the right answers, as must be the case for we imperfect humans.
January 19, 2023
For confessional Lutherans. Such an important book. I am so glad that somebody put all of this into a short, accessible book! I spoke with my husband, who is a pastor, and I am going to buy one copy for each family with children in each of the four churches at which he is the pastor. Every confessional Lutheran should read this book!
February 4, 2015
I read this book on the heels of How Now Shall we Live and Total Truth, which both deal with Christianity as a worldview. Both of those books delve into the subject in a much greater depth than this book. This book, however, looks at the Christian worldview from a Confessional Lutheran perspective (whereas the others are Evangelical).
The author first looks at the Christian worldview and then looks at several false worldviews: modernism, postmodernism and spiritualism. I especially liked his explanation of how postmodernism has changed the definition of tolerance which is something that I see repeatedly in today's society.
I thought this book was decent and a good introduction to worldviews, which is something that is not often talked about in church or bible study, but should be. We often think that our private lives are separate from our spiritual life, but the truth is that we are more influenced by outside worldviews in our daily lives than we realize.
The only thing I would have changed about this book is the organization. The chapter on Christianity poses 8 questions that need to be answered in a worldview, however, the author seems to abandon this structure in all subsequent chapters.
The author first looks at the Christian worldview and then looks at several false worldviews: modernism, postmodernism and spiritualism. I especially liked his explanation of how postmodernism has changed the definition of tolerance which is something that I see repeatedly in today's society.
I thought this book was decent and a good introduction to worldviews, which is something that is not often talked about in church or bible study, but should be. We often think that our private lives are separate from our spiritual life, but the truth is that we are more influenced by outside worldviews in our daily lives than we realize.
The only thing I would have changed about this book is the organization. The chapter on Christianity poses 8 questions that need to be answered in a worldview, however, the author seems to abandon this structure in all subsequent chapters.
March 21, 2011
I had some big issues with this book. I thought there was a lot of good in it, don't get me wrong. But I completely disagreed with him about not letting your kids read Harry Potter books and had some issues with the way he talked about global pantheism. I think taking care of God's creation is a Christian attitude, and it doesn't necessarily mean that we worship "mother earth". And I fully intend to read the entire Harry Potter series with my daughter when she's older.
January 26, 2012
Very well done book. It worked well as a group Bible study. I just wish it were a bit longer.
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