Understanding The Times Student Text Hardcover

The Collision of Today's Competing Worldviews


Understanding the Times will help students clearly understand the tenets of the Christian worldview and how it compares with the tenets of other leading worldviews of our day: Islam, Secular Humanism, Marxism, New Age, and Postmodernism.


Everyone has a worldview. Worldviews are shaped by
the people, ideas, and culture around us. Students have
worldviews, too. But do they have a biblical worldview, or
is their worldview being shaped by the onslaught of ideas
and values bombarding them from every direction?


The casualty rate in the battle of ideas is high, particularly
among Christian students. So we must be intentional
about their worldview development—from grades 1–12.
Summit Ministries offers a worldview educational
framework that trains students at all levels in biblical
Christian worldview thinking and discernment.



Some of the issues covered include: abortion, apologetics, the arts, biotechnology, critical thinking, cults, euthanasia, leadership, radical environmentalism, radical feminism, the problem of evil, religious pluralism, scriptural reliability, and more.



This softcover textbook (revised in 2006) systematically outlines the six major worlviews of our time: Christianity, Islam, Secular Humanism, Marxism, New Age, and Postmodernism — along ten academic disciplines — Theology, Philosophy, Ethics, Biology, Psychology, Sociology, Law, Politics, Economics, and History.