Engaging Our World

What difference does a worldview make?
These eclectic essays from twenty scholars show how embodying a biblical Christian worldview helps transform mere existence into fullness of life.
Read them to discover . . .
How Genesis answers the four most important human questions of pre-modern and post-modern times (W. Brouwer);
Why the concept "Christian worldview" fits the unique experience of reality Christianity affords, despite recent criticisms of the term and concept (R. Kurka);
How worldview competition in the global South differs from the West (D. Button);
How Western civilization lost its Christian mind and can find it again (M. E. Roberts);
How well the reasons celebrity scholar Bart Ehrman gives for his "deconversion" stack up (E. Meadors);
How higher education has abandoned its own source by expelling "religion of the heart" (R. Wenyika & W. Adrian);
How an "engineering mindset" helps evaluate worldviews and how a Christian worldview fares (D. Halsmer);
Christian Humanism as an exodus from the cultural wasteland for today's youth (R. Williams);
The worldview John Grisham's fiction expresses (J. Han & M. Bagley);
How Intelligent Design strengthens its status as science by using the concept of "design" in a new way (D. Leonard);
In the spirit of "The Screwtape Letters," a new epistle to Wormwood that praises compartmentalized Christianity (D. K. Naugle);
How an orphaned Japanese girl experienced "the American dream," God's way (K. Takeuchi);
How words, grammar, and style embody one's worldview, for good or ill (S. Robbins);
What happens to preaching-and the church-when emotional response to visual stimuli preempts thought (W. Wilson II);

. . . and much more.

"That which God has created and sin has divided Christ is reuniting . . . , and this includes the divisions generated by our . . . compartmentalizations. Our gracious, redeeming God is putting Humpty Dumpty back together again! For Christian scholars and teachers, this magnificent truth is fraught with implications for us . . . personally and professionally."

- David K. Naugle, "Squashing Screwtape: Debunking Dualism and Restoring Integrity in Christian Educational Thought and Practice"