Description
Book SynopsisThis brief but comprehensive introduction to Christian worldview helps readers understand the Christian faith as the substance of Spirit-filled living and as a knowledge tradition stemming from the global Pentecostal movement. Using beauty, truth, and goodness as organizing principles, the authors delineate a Christian worldview by tracing each category historically, comparing and contrasting each with alternative Christian expressions, and constructing fresh takes on each as read through the lived Pentecostal experience. Unlike other worldview books, the authors' approach emphasizes beauty (relating to experience) rather than truth (involving knowledge acquisition); that difference in emphasis flows naturally from the Pentecostal perspective, which has traditionally centered the experience of the Spirit. Pentecostal Christians will find this volume indispensable for thinking lucidly about their worldview from a renewal perspective.
Table of ContentsIntroduction:
Seeking Renewal amid Competing WorldviewsPart 1: Renewing Beauty
1. Aesthetic Formation:
How Perceptions Shape Us2. A Historical Survey of Beauty and Aesthetics
3. Contemporary Christian Aesthetics:
Begbie, Balthasar, and Hart4. A Renewal Perspective on Beauty, Aesthetics, and Embodied Spirituality
Part 2: Renewing Goodness
5. Civic Engagement:
How to Be Salt and Light in the World6. A Historical Survey of Goodness and Ethics
7. Contemporary Christian Ethics:
Niebuhr, MacIntyre, and Hauerwas8. A Renewal Perspective on Goodness, Ethics, and Civic Engagement
Part 3: Renewing Truth
9. Cultural Apologetics:
How to Speak Truth to Culture10. A Historical Survey of Truth and Knowledge
11. Contemporary Christian Epistemologies:
Plantinga, Zagzebski, and Lindbeck12. A Renewal Perspective on Truth, Epistemology, and Holistic Knowledge
Epilogue:
Living Renewed in a Pluralistic WorldIndex
