Bethany House, 2006, 251 pp., $11.99,
www.blahblahbook.com
“Not everyone has a religion, but everyone has a worldview—that core set of beliefs through which you interpret your world.” How many of your students could define “worldview” so clearly? This book was way more fun to read than those columned comparison charts! In well-paced chapters, Taylor explains major worldviews simply and sensibly without being either condescending or PC. He gives examples of where we might hear or see certain worldviews within movies, academia or water-cooler chatter.
Taylor talks up humility in understanding biblical and other worldviews, not to “offer conversation-stopping responses that amount to ‘I’m right and you’re wrong,’” but to be prepared for the “coming intellectual onslaught against the core of their faith,” and be able to ask smart questions, opening the door to share faith with others.
Bonus: Any worldview book that uses words like “stuff” and paragraph headings like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Worldview and The Dueling Yodas Worldview is all right by me. The author goes the extra mile on his Web site, with a blog and college forum, www.blahblahblahbook.com.
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Danette Matty, freelance writer and 18-year youth ministry volunteer in Minnesota.
