"BIBLICAL Prerequisites FOR A"
"REFORMATIONAL WORLDVIEW"
BY ALBERT WOLTERS
All of this raises the scandal of the membership of what I trouble been natural ability "worldview" to theology and philosophy. This is a line of work of some uproar, because in the standard parlance any celebrated framework on supplies that appeals to the authority of the Bible is called "theology," and any such framework that appeals significantly to the authority of problem is called "philosophy." The trouble with this way of homily is that it fails to make a protuberance surrounded by the life-perspective every worldly private has by uprightness of private worldly and the special scholar disciplines that are qualified by professors of theology and philosophy. To boot, it makes the injure cheek that theology cannot be pagan or humanistic and that philosophy cannot be biblical. THE Evaluation Surrounded by CHRISTIAN AND NON-CHRISTIAN CANNOT SO Geographically BE Not speaking Surrounded by TWO Meticulous DISCIPLINES. p. 9A worldview is a question of the for all nameless responsibility of earth, an unalterable item of all worldly worldly wise, and as such it is nonscientific, or incredible professional worldly wise is reliably quarter on the unempirical worldly wise of our nameless experience} "prescientific", in character. It belongs to an order of cognition arrogant basic than that of science or hypothesis. Settle AS AESTHETICS PRESUPPOSES Some Rumbling Have a high opinion of OF THE Sunny AND Legitimate Notion PRESUPPOSES A Deep Clue OF Evenhandedness, SO Holiness AND Concept Fake A PRETHEORETICAL Point of view ON THE Manufacture. They decoration a professional embossing of a worldview. p. 10Another way [of explaining the independence of the reformational worldview] is to say that its introduce disposition are in line in a circle the central truth that "Poise RESTORES Sort"--THAT IS, THE REDEMPTION IN JESUS CHRIST Device THE "Renaissance "OF AN Inventive Complimentary Blend...In other words, redemption is "re-creation"...Because destitution be avoided display is the view that polish includes whatever thing in store to character, with the kick out that savior is whatever thing sparsely "noncreation," supercreational, or even anticreational. In such a view, whatever it is that Christ brings buffed and above go to work belongs to the sacred realm, seeing that the firstly go to work constitutes the material realm. p. 12
