Coming later this week… a new article on worldview and story I wrote for The Worldview Church site (http://worldviewchurch.org/). In the meantime, I’ll share some of the research I did on worldview and story. These from N.T. Wright, from a cool website called The Ordinand.
’Worldviews are the basic stuff of human existence, the lens through which the world is seen, the blueprint for how one should live in it, and above all the sense of identity and place which enables human beings to be what they are. To ignore worldviews, either our own or those of the culture we are studying, would result in extraordinary shallowness.’
‘Worldviews, as I said earlier, are like the foundations of a house: vital, but invisible. They are that through which, not at which, a society or an individual normally looks; they form the grid according to which humans organise reality, not bits of reality that offer themselves for organisation
”Worldview are the lenses through which a society looks at the world, the grid upon which are plotted the multiple experiences of life.”
Worldviews may be studied in terms of four features; characteristic stories, fundamental symbols; habitual praxis; and a set of questions and answers.
http://ordinand.wordpress.com/
