James N. Anderson - Whats Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Lifes Big Questions

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I can think of readers to whom I would not give this book: they like their reading material to be straightforward exposition. The notion of an interactive book, where readers are forced to choose distinguishable paths and interact with discrete lines of thought, finding their own worldviews challengedwell, that does not sound very relaxing, and it may be a bit intimidating. But James Anderson has written something that is as creative as it is unusual: he has written a book in clear prose and at a popular level that nevertheless challenges readers to think, and especially to identify and evaluate their own worldviews. If the style is akin to Choose Your Own Adventure books, the content is at least as entertaining and far more important.

D. A. Carson, Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

This book will become the book that will be used by campus ministers, students, and a host of others who are constantly being drawn into conversations concerning worldviews. The layout of this book is ingenious, helpful, and engaging. The information found in these short pages will provide accurate long-term care for those on a worldview journey.

Rod Mays, National Coordinator, Reformed University Fellowship

Whats Your Worldview? is a brilliant concept, because each generation stumbles into its own ways to learn about God. Francis Schaeffer spoke about truth to many now old. James Anderson speaks to the young who grew up with Choose Your Own Adventure books, where the outcome depends on the choices readers make. A great gift for thoughtful teens who need to choose wisely.

Marvin Olasky, Editor in Chief, World News Group

James Andersons Whats Your Worldview? is a delightfully innovative apologetic. I know of nothing like it. It gets the reader to interact by asking crucial worldview questions. Depending on the readers answers, he is led to further questions or to a conclusion. Animating the journey is a cogent Christian apologetic, showing that only the Christian worldview yields cogent answers to the questions. Andersons approach is both winsome and biblical, as well as being the most creative apologetic book in many years. I pray that it gets a wide readership.

John M. Frame, J. D. Trimble Chair of Systematic Theology and Philosophy, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando

Thanks to James Anderson for filling a massive gap in apologetics and worldview thinking. This book is unique in that it is wholly and broadly accessible to readers of any background and educational level, and yet written by an accomplished Christian philosopher. Written with wit, clarity, cogency and simplicity , this book ingeniously guides the reader from a chosen worldview to its implications. Urging the reader to connect the conceptual dots of his own thinking, this book should lead its reader either to turmoil or to truth. This will now be the first book on my list for people who ask ultimate questions about Christianity and its relationship to other ways of thinking. Get this book, read it, then get more to give away to friends and family.

K. Scott Oliphint, Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary

Whats Your Worldview? offers a uniquely interactive approach to finding answers to lifes biggest and most important questions. It makes identifying your worldview, and perhaps replacing it with a better one, an enjoyable adventure.

Tim Challies, blogger, Challies.com; author, The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

There has been a plethora of books written about worldview in the past 25 years, but Dr. Anderson has done something much betterhe has written a book that helps you discern your worldview, and then ask yourself some penetrating questions about it. Is all as it should be in your worldview? Read on, and find out.

Rev. William Fullilove, Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Assistant Academic Dean, Reformed Theological Seminary, Atlanta

For some time now, the church has been in desperate need of an accessible and practical tool that would help people evaluate the cogency and coherence of their worldviews. Finally, with this new book, that need is being met. James Anderson is one of the brightest new voices in the world of philosophical theology. You will not want to miss this book.

Michael J. Kruger, President and Professor of New Testament, Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte; author, Canon Revisited

Not the last word on worldviews, but quite possibly the first! Whats Your Worldview? is creative, clear, and fun, but with some nice and necessary sharp edges. I hope and pray it will have the desired effect of making all those who read it stop and think (Isa. 44:19).

Daniel Strange, Academic Vice Principal and Tutor in Culture, Religion, and Public Theology, Oak Hill Theological College, London

Dr. James Anderson has provided the church with a unique new tool to help the next generation be prepared to give the reason for the hope that is within them.

Hugh Whelchel, Executive Director, The Institute for Faith, Work & Economics; author, How Then Should We Work?

WHATS YOUR WORLDVIEW?

Whats Your Worldview? An Interactive Approach to Lifes Big Questions
Copyright 2014 by James N. Anderson

Published by Crossway
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Cover design: Tyler Deeb, Pedale Design

First printing 2013

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Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible ( The Holy Bible, English Standard Version ), copyright 2001 by Crossway. 2011 Text Edition. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-3892-6
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PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-3893-3
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Anderson, James N., 1973

Whats your worldview? : an interactive approach to life's big questions / James N. Anderson.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN 978-1-4335-3893-3 (pdf) ISBN 978-1-4335-3894-0 (mobi) ISBN 978-1-4335-3895-7 (epub) ISBN 978-1-4335-3892-6 (tp)

1. PhilosophyMiscellanea. 2. ReligionsMiscellanea. I. Title.

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To John Frame

Contents

Have you ever read one of the Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) books? The basic idea behind them is ingenious. Rather than telling a story from a traditional third-person perspective, with a linear storyline and a pre-determined ending, a CYOA book has an interactive storyline in which the reader acts as the main character and determines the plot by making decisions at key points. CYOA books are sometimes called game books because reading one is like playing a game. Each book has many possible endingssome happy, some not so happybut the outcome always depends crucially on your choices.