Review: What's Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life's Big Questions

What's Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life's Big Questions by James N. Anderson

A brilliant and unique primer on worldview. There has never been a book quite like What's Your Worldview? It's kind of like a cross between the old "Choose Your Own Adventure" books and "Philosophy 101." Anderson interactively introduces all of the basic worldviews that exist in terms that are easy to grasp and constructively critiques each one. He shows how ideas are connected and have consequences.

Readers answer each question for themselves and process through the maze (of course, you can read the book sequentially, as well) finding out the answer the title question and learning about how other people see the world at the same time. I think that adherents would say that Anderson is careful and fair in his descriptions of their worldviews even as he advocates for the claims of gospel-centered Christianity. He also writes concisely and with humor generously sprinkled throughout. So well done!

When I was a young Christian, I read James Sire's The Universe Next Door which gave me these same categories. This book is a Universe Next Door primer for this generation. I can't recommend it highly enough and have 3 people I want to give copies to right now.