Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, by Jeff Myers and David A. Noebel, Manitou Springs, Colorado: Summit Ministries, 2015 ed., 510 pages, hardcover.

Understanding the Times is an extremely impressive book that is intended to enlighten readers about the nature of the world in which we now live, from the standpoint of the ongoing battle of ideas. In this updated and expanded edition, the authors see the world as one in which six major worldviews contend with one another to win the hearts and minds of men: Secularism, Marxism, Postmodernism, New Spirituality (or “New Age”), Islam, and Christianity. There are indeed other worldviews, but these six are today the most active.

Having defined the six major competing worldviews, the authors examine each of them by dividing the principal characteristics of each worldview into 10 categories so the reader can clearly understand what these outlooks represent insofar as an individual person or a society is concerned, that is, what different ways of life they dictate or envision. Those 10 categories are as follows: theology, philosophy, ethics, biology, psychology, sociology, law, politics, economics, and history. The authors state that these are “ten ways of looking at the world.”

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