THE OTHER WORLDVIEW

exposing christianity’s greatest threat

PETER JONES

foreword by

R.C. SPROUL

The Other Worldview: Exposing Christianity’s Greatest Threat

Copyright 2015 Peter Jones

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Contents

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1 A Ticket to Ride—But to Where?

Part 1 Coming Apart

Chapter 2 The Rise and Fall of Secular Humanism

Chapter 3 Carl Jung’s Dream for a “New Humanity”

Chapter 4 The Perennial Philosophy—The Origin of Contemporary Spirituality

Chapter 5 The Sixties Spiritual and Sexual Revolution

Chapter 6 A Destructive Generation

Part 2 Given Over

Chapter 7 A Cosmology of Radical Egalitarianism

Chapter 8 Pagan Cosmology of Synthesis: The Joining of Reason and Spirit

Chapter 9 Salvation by Shaman

Part 3 Not Giving Up

Chapter 10 Christian Compromise with Culture

Chapter 11 A Whole or Holy Cosmos?

Chapter 12 Blowing the Mind

Chapter 13 Gospel Power: A Given-Over Savior

Subject and Name Index

Scripture Index

Foreword

Wait just a minute. How in the world did we get to the place where we are? The sun has set on the British Empire and the grand experiment of America has blown up in the laboratory.

We can ask about the grisly impact of two world wars on Western civilization. We can look to the impact of the Holocaust, where the battle-hardened commander of the Allies, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, wept when he beheld the ghost-like, emaciated survivors of Hitler’s death camps and the Final Solution to the “Jewish problem.” We can read our resultant culture through the lens of Nietzsche’s nihilism or Jean Paul Sartre’s assessment ...

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About The Other Worldview: Exposing Christianity’s Greatest Threat

A cataclysmic change has occurred over the past few decades. Our culture as a whole has switched worldviews.

According to Peter Jones, all the religions and philosophies of the world can be divided into two basic worldviews. These two perspectives differ on the fundamental nature of reality. Is everything essentially one? Or does an irreducible distinction exist between creation and Creator?

In The Other Worldview, Jones explains the difference between what he calls “Oneism” and “Twoism.” He exposes the pagan roots of Oneism, and he traces its spread and influence throughout Western culture. Most importantly, he shows us why Oneism is incapable of saving anyone or truly changing the world for the better.

“For bodily holiness and transformed thinking … we depend entirely on one amazing thing: the incredibly powerful message of the Gospel to a sinful world, which is the ultimate expression and goal of Twoism. The only hope is in Christ alone.”

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