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• A Marxist would call it an “ideology”; the most prevalent label in the secular social sciences today is probably “system of values.”
• Third, it is important to note that worldviews have to do with basic beliefs about things. They have to do with the ultimate questions we are confronted with; they involve matters of general principle.
• In its new form Creation Regained now forms an excellent companion volume to Craig G. Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen, The Drama of Scripture. Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story (Grand Rapids, Baker, 2004).
• In recent years the works of Lesslie Newbigin, N. T. Wright, Brian Walsh, and Richard Middleton have deepened my understanding of the importance of narrative and mission for a right understanding of worldview. Originally this was impressed on me during my days at Westminster Theological Seminary, especially through reading the work of Herman Ridder...
• The redemptive-historical approach to Scripture of the Dutch reformational tradition, as exemplified in Herman Ridderbos, has always understood the Scriptures as one unfolding story of redemption. Furthermore, the missiologists within that same tradition, like J. H. Bavinck, have drawn the profound missional conclusions from understanding our place...