Quotes about Perspective

When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

Frank Sheed once said, "The secular novelist sees what is visible; the Christian novelist sees what is there.

Reductionism is like a kid who argues that whatever does not fit into his toy box is not a toy.

Biblical worldview'. The term means literally a 'view of the world', a biblically informed perspective on all of reality. A worldview is like a mental map that tells you how to navigate the world effectively. It is the imprint of God's objective truth on our inner life.

Many of us don't even know what it means to have a Christian perspective on our work. Oh, we know that being a Christian means being ethical on the job- as Saly put it, "no lying and cheating." But the work itself is typically defined in secular terms as bringing home a paycheck, climbing the career ladder, building a professional reputation.

postmodernists are just as concerned about objective truth as anyone else. Dallas Willard comments, "I have noticed that the most emphatic of Postmodernists turn coldly modern when discussing their fringe benefits or other matters that make a great difference to their practical life." 35 If we use the metaphor that a worldview is a mental map, postmodernists keep walking off their map. It is too small to account for the full geography of who they are.

You can be utterly confident that any non-biblical worldview will be too "small" to account for all of reality.

Learning critical thinking is important not only for speaking to people outside the church but also for educating people on the inside

A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.

if everything is historically relative, then so is the idea of historicism itself.

It urges us to set our minds "on things that are on earth," not on things above (Col. 3:2).

We must reject the presumption that holding Christian beliefs disqualifies us as "biased," while the philosophical naturalists get a free pass by presenting their position as "unbiased" and "rational." Most of all, we need to liberate Christianity from the two-story division that has reduced it to an upper-story private experience, and learn how to restore it to the status of objective truth.