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Worlds Apart: A Handbook on World Views

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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.

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.