Do Christians Have a Worldview?

He took the blade. It was bright silver. He loved the way it glistened. It felt good in his hand. He cut deep into her chest again and again. He showed no emotion, no recognition of her humanity. She lay motionless, her life gone. He made no attempt to cover the body. Later that night over a beer he openly talked to a stranger in the bar about what he had done. The stranger felt ill….

What are we to make of this? Should someone have called 911? Should he have been arrested? Is this a Hannibal Lecter story? It all depends. To make sense of it, this narrative fragment needs placing in a larger picture or frame of reference. Frames of reference are keys to reading the world of our experience. Examine how to assess frames of references like postmodernism and discover what makes a worldview Christian.

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What Makes a Worldview Distinctively Christian?

Graham A. Cole is Dean of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Vice-President of Education, and Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology. He is also Vice-President of Education for Trinity International University. He is the author of four books: Engaging with the Holy Spirit: Real Questions, Practical Answers and He Who Gives Life: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, God the Peacemaker: How Atonement Brings Shalom, and The God Who Became Human: A Biblical Theology of Incarnation. He has also authored over a hundred book chapters, articles, and book reviews. He is an ordained Anglican minister, and has taught theology and philosophy of religion on three continents.  
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