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Worldview Theory, Whiteness, and the Future of Evangelical Faith
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2021
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The twenty-first century has seen energy passing between religious and political worldviews, kicking up dust around the identity- and conviction-based fault lines in American society. While many evangelical Christians have developed and deployed a “worldview theory” to describe and locate themselves within the world’s ideological strife, Jacob Cook argues this approach has, in effect, compelled those listening to adopt the world’s divisive modes of dealing with difference rather than living out a compelling alternative. As a popular framework for theology in recent history, world-viewing has driven its white evangelical adherents to narrate human lives in this world (including their own) in ways that warp Christian identity as a personal, social, and theological reality. Through close studies of key white evangelical leaders who utilized the worldview concept for political engagement and cultural transformation over the last century, Cook reveals why worldview theory is inept for grasping real human complexity and, moreover, how it forms a barrier to genuine life together as creatures in a world only the living God can really “view.” In between these studies, he draws from current conversations in psychology, sociology, critical race studies, and other fields to deliver a vigorous critique of the worldview concept and its use as well as its underlying impulse—and to unmask what world-viewing shares with the history and spirit of whiteness. This book is for those wrestling with the relationship between Christianity and whiteness in America, how the dynamics of whiteness have become transparent and, thus, contentions, and where to go from here if one is to follow Jesus.
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2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0819-8
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978-1-9787-0820-4
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Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
330
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Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Studying White Evangelical World-Viewing No access
The Intertwined Histories of World-Viewing and Whiteness No access
The Task before Us No access
Notes No access
Placing Kuyper in Historical Context: World-View as Threat and Promise No access
The World-View Concept in Kuyper’s Theology No access
Politics in the Name of “Calvinism” No access
Preliminary Conclusions No access
Notes No access
W. E. B. Du Bois: A Brief Case in Counterpoint No access
Current Discourses in Psychology No access
Conclusions about World-Viewing Selves in View of Kuyper No access
Prospects for a Viable Theology of Identity135 No access
Notes No access
Placing Ockenga in Historical Context: A Very Present Help in Trouble No access
The World-View Concept in Ockenga’s Theology No access
Politics in the Name of “Evangelicalism” No access
Preliminary Conclusions No access
Notes No access
William E. “Bill” Pannell: A Brief Case in Counterpoint No access
Current Sociohistorical Studies of Race, Religion, and Politics No access
Noticing a White Christian Social Imaginary No access
Conclusions about Neo-Evangelical Identity Politics in View of Harold Ockenga No access
Prospects for a Viable Theology of Identity153 No access
Notes No access
Placing Mouw in Historical Context: Evangelicalism through Thick and Thin No access
The World-View Concept in Mouw’s Theology No access
Politics in the Name of “Evangelicalism” No access
Preliminary Conclusions No access
Notes No access
Paul Althaus: A Brief Case in Counterpoint No access
Theology Developed under Completely Different Circumstances No access
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Creation, Fall, and How We Know No access
Putting the Criticism to Work No access
On Marriage as a Mandate No access
Bridge No access
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Conclusions about World-View Security in Light of Bonhoeffer No access Pages 290 - 294
Prospects for a Viable Theology of Identity No access Pages 295 - 297
