Other Christians may use the word too, occasionally, rarely, in a way that conforms more closely to its usual dictionary definition or to the way the German sociologists used it when they coined the term weltanschauung. But when you hear it used frequently, the way it\u2019s employed by the BJU Press and the Worldview Weekend folks above, it is a signpost term. It helps to show where the user falls on the spectrum between typical Christianity Today\/Wheaton College\/Ned Flanders mainstream evangelicalism and the scary lunatic fringe of radical separatists, dominionists and third-generation homeschoolers. The more you hear someone talk about \u201cChristian worldviews\u201d or \u201cbiblical worldviews\u201d the further to the extreme right of that spectrum you can expect them to be.<\/p>\n
Use of the word in this sense tells you that the speaker is almost certainly a persecuted hegemon \u2014 someone who simultaneously believes that America is a \u201cChristian nation,\u201d founded on Christian principles and that Christians in America are a persecuted, um, majority. It suggests that the speaker distrusts public schools. That they\u2019re inclined to oppose the separation of church and state. That they likely believe in young-earth creationism, probably even believing that Josh McDowell and\/or Kirk Cameron has disproved evolution. They believe in moral absolutes \u2014 and have absolute confidence in their ability to know them absolutely. They believe that America\u2019s troubles trace back to Engel v. Vitale<\/em> and Roe v. Wade<\/em> and believe that God will bless America once those rulings are overturned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Use of the word in this sense tells you that the speaker is almost certainly a persecuted hegemon \u2014 someone who simultaneously believes that America is a “Christian nation,” founded on Christian principles and that Christians in America are a persecuted, um, majority. It suggests that the speaker distrusts public schools. That they\u2019re inclined to oppose the separation of church and state. That they likely believe in young-earth creationism, probably even believing that Josh McDowell and\/or Kirk Cameron has disproved evolution. They believe in moral absolutes \u2014 and have absolute confidence in their ability to know them absolutely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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