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The universe next door : a basic worldview catalog / James W. Sire ; foreword to the sixth edition by Jim Hoover. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, (c)2020.Edition: Sixth edition.itionDescription: xv, 294 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780830849383
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • B823.3.S619.U558 2020
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Contents:
Foreword to the Sixth Edition / Jim Hoover -- Preface to the Fifth Edition -- A World of Difference: Introduction -- A Universe Charged with the Grandeur of God: Christian Theism -- The Clockwork Universe: Deism -- The Silence of Finite Space: Naturalism -- Zero Point: Nihilism -- Beyond Nihilism: Existentialism -- Journey to the East: Eastern Pantheistic Monism -- A Separate Universe: The New Age--Spirituality Without Religion -- The Vanished Horizon: Postmodernism -- A View from the Middle East: Islamic Theism -- The Examined Life: A Life Worth Living -- Building a Christian Worldview for the Twenty-First Century: A Work in Progress -- Appendix: Worldview diagrams and thumbnail sketches.
Summary: "For more than forty years, The Universe Next Door has set the standard for an introduction to worldviews. This sixth edition uses James Sire's widely influential model of eight basic worldview questions to examine prominent worldviews that have shaped the Western world, critiquing each worldview within its own frame of reference and in comparison to others"--
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Foreword to the Sixth Edition / Jim Hoover -- Preface to the Fifth Edition -- A World of Difference: Introduction -- A Universe Charged with the Grandeur of God: Christian Theism -- The Clockwork Universe: Deism -- The Silence of Finite Space: Naturalism -- Zero Point: Nihilism -- Beyond Nihilism: Existentialism -- Journey to the East: Eastern Pantheistic Monism -- A Separate Universe: The New Age--Spirituality Without Religion -- The Vanished Horizon: Postmodernism -- A View from the Middle East: Islamic Theism -- The Examined Life: A Life Worth Living -- Building a Christian Worldview for the Twenty-First Century: A Work in Progress -- Appendix: Worldview diagrams and thumbnail sketches.

"For more than forty years, The Universe Next Door has set the standard for an introduction to worldviews. This sixth edition uses James Sire's widely influential model of eight basic worldview questions to examine prominent worldviews that have shaped the Western world, critiquing each worldview within its own frame of reference and in comparison to others"--

- COPYRIGHT: covered - CIU has obtained rights for you to copy and share this title in electronic or print format with students, faculty, and staff.

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