Loading…

Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does conversion to Christ entail? A change in behavior? A change in beliefs? These were the leading indicators for missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, respectively, that conversion had occurred. But each of these on its own is insufficient for a gospel understanding of conversion. And even when both are in evidence, it is possible that the result is merely syncretistic...

actions, but the two are not the same. Our behavior is determined not only by our norms and ideals but also by the conflicting forces and changing circumstances that pressure our everyday lives. Furthermore, mental blueprints do not account for idiosyncratic variations. Worldviews serve a number of important cultural and social functions. First, as Brian Walsh notes (2006, 244–45), worldviews are our plausibility structures that provide answers to our ultimate questions: Where are we (what is the
Page 29
Buy this book at Logos.com