Naming the Elephant: Worldview as a Concept (32 page)

Aeschylus, 178

Aquinas, Thomas, 78, 90, 101, 106

Arnold, Matthew, 158

Auerbach, Erich, 119

Augustine, 83, 90

Barth, Karl, 132, 136, 138

Barzun, Jacques, 169

Bashō, Matsuo, 94, 171-74

Bavink, Herman, 156

Beck, David, 16

Beckwith, Francis, 65, 68

Behe, Michael, 134, 180

Berger, Peter L., 129-30, 133, 137, 157

Bertrand, J. Mark, 38

Bettelheim, Bruno, 53

Bloom, Harold, 91

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 138

Bonzo, Matthew, 36

Brown, William E., 38

Burnett, David, 37, 41

Bush, Harold K., Jr., 178

Caird, Edward, 33, 45

Calvin, John, 23, 33-34, 46, 77, 89, 102-3, 105, 117, 126, 131, 147

Capernicus, Nicolaus, 177

Cassirer, Ernst, 53

Cervantes, Miguel de, 178

Clark, Gordon, 98

Clark, Gregory A., 49, 77, 98, 132, 138, 144

Clouser, Roy, 149

Colson, Charles, 64, 116, 161

Confucius, 164

Copleston, F. C., 18

Cottingham, John, 82, 84

Craig, William Lane, 65, 104, 178

Crouch, Andy, 14, 55-56, 61, 67

Dante, 178

Davidson, Donald, 86

Davies, Paul, 180, 187-88

Davis, Steven T., 104, 190

Dawkins, Richard, 130-35, 180

Dégh, Linda, 53

Descartes, René, 29, 43-44, 77-89, 99-100, 137, 141

Dickinson, Emily, 178

Dilthey, Wilhelm, 13, 23, 25-29, 43-45. 47, 53, 60, 97, 114, 116-17, 119, 125, 154

Dockery, David S., 38, 116, 178

Donne, John, 177

Dooyeweerd, Herman, 32, 34, 39, 60, 107-8, 143-44, 147

Dürrenmatt, Friedrich, 29

Eagleton, Terry, 177

Eco, Umberto, 53

Eliot, T. S., 55

Ermath, Michael, 25

Evans, C. Stephen, 178

Foucault, Michel, 31, 43-45, 56, 91-92, 177

Freud, Sigmund, 69, 99-104, 111-13,

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 53

Garber, Steve, 37, 118

Gaukroger, Stephen, 78

Geertz, Clifford, 16-17

Gilson, Ėtienne, 78, 99, 104, 106

Goldman, Alvin, 86

Goricheva, Tatiana, 161

Griffioen, Sander, 14, 23, 35, 38, 98, 108

Groothuis, Douglas, 37, 65

Hall, Everett W., 99

Hart, David Bentley, 106, 134, 145

Havel, Václav, 169-71

Hegel, G. F. W., 24, 29

Heidegger, Martin, 29, 104, 170

Henley, William Ernest, 142

Henry, Carl F. H., 98, 132

Heslam, Peter, 23, 34, 147

Hick, John, 18, 191

Hiebert, Paul, 41-42, 61, 68

Hodges, H. A., 26

Holmes, Arthur F., 13, 35, 49, 98-99, 120, 178

Homer, 178

Hunter, James Davison, 14, 56, 63-64, 183

Jeffrey, David Lyle, 120

Jellema, Harry, 178

Jesus, 27, 35, 47, 50, 51-52, 57-58, 65, 73, 76-77, 90, 92-93, 100, 121, 123, 133, 144, 149, 165, 176, 179, 183

Johnson, Paul, 169

Kant, Immanuel, 13, 23, 43, 49, 77, 140

Kearney, Michael, 41, 99-100, 107

Keene, Donald, 171, 173-74

Kierkegaard, Søren, 36-37, 104, 36

Klapwijk, Jacob, 35, 108

Kolakowski, Leszek, 82, 84

Kraft, Charles, 41-42, 61, 68, 97

Kreeft, Peter, 104

Kuyper, Abraham, 13, 23, 25, 32-35, 37-38, 46, 57, 60, 117, 126, 147

Levine, Peter, 28, 131

Lewis, C. S., 76, 92, 99, 152, 161

Locke, John, 16

Lovejoy, A. O., 97

Lu, Sixia, 161-68

Luckmann, Thomas, 129-30, 133, 137

Luzbetak, Louis, 41

Lyotard, Jean-François, 120

MacDonald, George, 76

Magee, Bryan, 169

Mannheim, Karl, 97

Marsden, George, 181

Marshall, Paul A., 14, 23, 35, 38, 98, 108

Mascall, E. L., 72, 88, 104, 106

May, Rollo, 53

Medawar, Peter, 90

Meng-Ji, 164

Middleton, J. Richard, 13, 32, 64, 67, 115-19, 123-34, 154-55

Moreland, J. P., 65, 104, 178

Mouw, Richard, 14, 23-24, 35, 38, 108

Nash, Ronald, 32, 35, 40, 46, 53, 68, 120

Naugle, David K., 13, 19, 23-55, 88, 91-93, 97, 100, 107, 112-15, 117, 120, 125, 132, 143, 154

Newbigin, Lesslie, 107, 110, 124-25

Newman, John Henry, 74, 181

Nicholi, Armand, Jr., 39, 99-100, 104

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 27-29, 44, 84-87, 91, 131, 162

Noll, Mark, 49, 178-79

Okholm, Dennis, 77

Olthuis, James, 32, 38, 45, 46, 53, 98, 120

Orr, James, 13, 32-34, 37, 45-46, 48, 51, 53, 68, 115-16, 119-24, 147, 151, 153-55, 163

Pascal, Blaise, 96, 99, 103, 127

Pearcey, Nancy, 116

Peirce, C. S., 53

Phillips, W. Gary, 38, 49, 787, 132, 144

Pieper, Josef, 75

Pierson, George, 36, 40

Plantinga, Alvin, 89, 102, 138-39, 141, 178

Plantinga, Cornelius, 64

Plantinga, Theodore, 112

Polanyi, Michael, 124, 140

Poplin, Mary, 38

Kok, John H., 40, 143

Redfield, Robert, 100, 114-16, 154-55

Rorty, Richard, 85, 86, 91

Russell, Bertrand, 18

Sagan, Carl, 18

Samples, Kenneth R., 65

Sanford, Mark L., 38

Schaeffer, Francis, 13, 23, 139

Schmemann, Alexander, 93

Schupach, Jonah M., 95

Searle, John, 144-45

Shakespeare, William, 177-78

Sire, James W., 44, 74, 104, 113, 138, 159-61, 169, 180

Smart, Ninian, 41

Smith, James K. A., 14, 55-56, 61-68, 93, 117, 126

Spier, J. M., 35

Spradley, Joseph, 49

Stark, Rodney, 180

Stevens, Michael, 36

Swinburne, Richard, 104

Tacelli, Ron, 104

Taylor, Charles, 14, 56, 59-67, 86, 98, 117-18

Thielicke, Helmut, 137

Thornbury, Gregory Alan, 38, 178

Tolkien, J. R. R., 178

Tozer, A. W., 148

Ueda, Makoto, 173

Unamuno, Miguel de, 85

Walsh, Brian, J., 32, 57, 64, 67, 115-19, 123-24, 154-55

Ware, Timothy, 93

Watson, Peter, 112

Whitehead, Alfred North, 19

Wieseltier, Leon, 135-36

Wilkins, Steven, 38

Willard, Dallas, 148

Williams, Bernard, 67, 79-80, 83

Williams, Clifford, 38

Wilson, James Q., 152

Wilson, Margaret Dauler, 78

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 23, 29-30, 44, 53, 86, 97-98

Wolters, Al, 32, 36, 39, 46, 53, 64

Wolterstorff, Nicholas, 178

Wood, Gordon, 62

Woolf, Virginia, 178

Wright, N. T., 14, 56-59, 65-66, 97-98

Yandell, Keith, 178

Zuang-Cuo, 164-65

Subject Index

(Page numbers refer to print edition)

argument, 53, 63, 66, 78, 96, 132, 136, 140, 152, 156

       
for God, 78-84, 102-4, 137, 145

       
ontological, 80-82

atheism, 12, 28, 134, 161, 181-82

Buddhism, 93-94, 120

       
Zen, 94, 171-174

cosmos, 18, 20, 26, 53, 70, 72, 74, 76, 140, 145, 156, 180, 188.
See
also
universe

cultural liturgy, 14, 56, 64, 66-68, 87, 111, 117, 126, 142

deism, 12, 131, 146, 175-76

Eastern pantheistic monism, 12, 175

epistemology, 20, 22, 29-30, 42, 54, 70, 77-82, 88-89, 95, 108, 116-17, 125, 138, 151, 153-54, 171

God

       
as creator, 18, 36, 45, 48, 64, 70, 74, 89, 105, 121-22, 173, 179

       
death of, 27, 162

       
existence of, 18, 21, 45, 48, 75-84, 89, 100-106, 138, 144-45, 148, 182, 190-91, 94

       
nature of, 12, 18, 20-21, 27, 45, 48, 53-54, 57, 63, 71-82, 84, 95, 102, 104-5, 138, 140, 164, 167, 176, 180-81

       
theistic, 40, 55, 71, 105

heart, 14, 35-36, 47-54, 98, 103, 122, 125, 128, 130, 132, 142-44, 147-48, 155-56, 159, 162, 165, 167, 180, 183, 194

hermeneutics, 46, 54, 91-93, 177

Hinduism, 93-94, 120

human

       
nature, 26-27, 33, 41, 43, 62, 115, 129, 167, 178.
See also
image of God

       
reason, autonomy of, 12, 43, 47, 74, 78, 89, 95

image of God, 28, 100, 129, 151, 178.
See also
human

intuition, 39, 79, 82, 97-98, 102-3, 109, 111, 117

Islam, 120, 169, 176-77

knowledge, 9, 12, 30-31, 40, 44, 46, 49, 62, 73, 76-86, 109, 111, 120, 138, 140, 147, 159-60, 162-63, 167, 179, 190, 192

       
of God, 52, 78, 80, 84, 89, 103, 109, 138-39, 149

       
pragmatic, 12

       
pretheoretical, 89

       
religious, 74

       
secular, 74

       
self-knowledge, 82, 86

       
sociology of, 129-30, 133, 137, 193

New Age, 12, 37, 69, 133, 135, 161, 175, 182, 191

nihilism, 12, 21, 23, 27, 45, 137, 145, 161, 175-76, 194

ontology, 22, 29-30, 42, 48, 54, 71-77, 80, 88-89, 91, 94-95, 108, 114, 117, 121, 125, 138, 148, 153-54, 160

pantheism, 12, 54, 93-94, 112, 131, 175,

perception

       
direct, 84, 101, 172

       
in general, 26-27, 41, 43, 85, 89, 109, 127-28, 171

postmodernism, 12, 29, 42-44, 85, 90-91, 93, 95, 119-20, 123, 136, 139-40, 166, 175, 179, 192

pragmatism, 12

presupposition

       
as commitment, 18, 51, 98, 179

       
in culture, 128-29, 147

       
definition of, 18-20, 51, 98, 100-107, 149-50

       
ontological, 48, 138, 146

       
vs. pretheoretical, 37, 97-98, 104, 107, 109

       
and reality, 42, 56

       
vs. story, 141, 145

       
and theology, 91, 107-8

       
vs. theoretical, 97, 104

       
and thought, 37

       
true, 19, 41, 148-49

       
and worldview, 15, 19-20, 22, 24, 42, 53, 57, 91, 97-98, 107, 120, 141

pretheoretical

       
category, 43, 92, 99-100

       
commitment, 35, 179

       
knowledge, 89

       
vs. presuppositional, 37, 56, 97-98, 178

       
reality, 16, 56, 104, 141

       
vs. theoretical, 7, 23-24, 96-109, 65, 60

       
thought, 39, 60, 91, 99-109

       
truth, 99

       
worldview, 97-98, 101, 108, 130, 143

prime reality, 14, 16, 20, 22, 48, 71, 74-75, 94, 104, 106, 113, 128, 130, 139, 147, 154, 159, 169, 171, 173, 175-76

really real.
See
prime reality

reason 12, 25, 31, 35, 37, 47, 74, 103, 106, 138, 190

       
natural, 106

       
sufficient, 18, 81, 106

Scripture, 22, 35, 72, 88-89, 120-21, 124, 143, 150, 191

       
Christian (NT), 49-50, 52, 56, 72, 75-76, 109

       
Hebrew (OT), 47, 49, 54, 58, 72, 109, 122-23

social imaginary, 14, 60-68, 98, 117-18, 194

sensus divinitatus
, 46, 89, 101-3, 105, 138

Taoism, 164-65

theism, 12, 18-19, 27-28, 54-55, 62, 68, 70-72, 74, 89, 104-5, 112, 116, 131, 134, 139, 145-46, 170-71, 175-76, 180, 190, 192

theoretical

       
definition of, 35, 38-39, 41, 59, 96-97, 99, 108

       
commitment, 35-36

       
vs. nontheoretical, 40

       
philosophy, 38

       
vs. presuppositional, 100, 168

       
vs. pretheoretical, 7, 23-24, 96-109

       
reality, 16, 109

       
thought, 34-35, 37, 40, 46, 59, 99, 101, 108-9, 115, 144

       
worldview, 97, 111

transcendence, 43, 46, 54, 74, 95, 99, 102, 104-5, 109, 141, 144-45, 149, 152

universe, 17, 18, 20, 33, 48, 53-54, 70, 72, 74-76, 80, 90, 98, 104, 111, 114-17, 120, 128, 145-48, 155, 159, 165, 171, 177, 179-81, 183, 187.
See also
cosmos

worldview, basic definition of

in
The Universe Next Door
(1976), 19

refined, 141, 183

Praise for
Naming the Elephant

“I highly recommend this book to others who seek to think in worldview terms.”

Cheryl Doss,
Mission Studies
, 2008

About the Author

James W. Sire
(PhD, University of Missouri), formerly a senior editor at InterVarsity Press, is an active speaker and writer. He has taught English, philosophy, theology, and short courses at many universities and seminaries. He continues to be a frequent guest lecturer in the United States and Europe.