Worlds Apart: A Handbook on World Views [Paperback]

Norman L. Geisler (Author), William D. Watkins (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 307 pages
• Publisher: Baker Pub Group; 2 Sub edition (January 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801038294
• ISBN-13: 978-0801038297
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,114,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Norman Geisler (PhD, Loyola University) is president of Southern Evangelical Seminary and author or coauthor of over fifty books including Decide for Yourself, Baker's Encyclopedia of Apologetics, and When Skeptics Ask.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Popular Geisler, July 13, 2004

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Trent Dougherty "Socratic" (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Worlds Apart: A Handbook on World Views (Paperback)

The basic structure and content of this book is taken from the middle section of his legendary textbook _Christian Apologetics_. However, it is written in a more accessible way and has handy charts and illustrations to help the reader. Amazon has done well in offering it along side Sire's _Universe Next Door_. If you liked that you'll also like this. Norm points out strengths and weaknesses of each view before moving on to the next. Logic guides the journey. First, there is either something supernatural or there isn't. The fist option is atheism, which is investigated first. If there is something supernatural, then it is either finite or infinite. If the supernatural is infinite, then it is either identical with the world (pantheism) or it isn't. If there is an infinite transcendent supernatural being, then it either interacts with humans (theism) or it does not (deism). His discussion of panentheism foreshadows his current work on what he has called "neotheism" which includes the movement which calls itself "open theism". If you only buy one Giesler book, this should be it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, August 13, 2011

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This review is from: Worlds Apart: A Handbook on World Views (Paperback)

The best book on worldviews I have ever read. was in mint condition when I got it But I have read it several times since.