Greek vs Hebrew World Views

Assumptions That Affect Our Lives by Christian Overman

The visible actions of people are first shaped by invisible thoughts, deep in the unseen world of the human mind and heart. What factors influence those invisible ideas? For people who live in the Western world, the answers can be found by examining the two major roots of Western thought--the ancient Greeks and the ancient Hebrews. Assumptions That Affect Our Lives takes the reader back to the roots of the modern conflict between Christianity and secular humanism through a comparison of ancient Greek and Hebrew culture. What the reader will discover is, the current tension between evangelical Christians and the non-biblical ideas with which they are surrounded is an age old conflict. By viewing the current situation in the context of the ancient Greeks and Hebrews, contemporary Christians can be better equipped to deal with the challenges of living in a predominately Greek-based culture today. Paperback - 273 pages 1 edition (November 27, 1996) Micah 6:8; ISBN: 1883035503.

How Now Shall We Live? by Charles W. Colson, Nancy Pearcey

An excellent book on worldviews highly recommended as one of the best defenses of real-life, workable, defensible Christianity available. Similar to Schaeffers book How Then Shall We Live but easier to digest.The authors compare the two world views that affect which of the outcomes above will be realized - the naturalistic worldview, and the God-centered worldview. The former is presented as doomed to failure, with excellent arguments derived both from real life and from good logic. The latter is shown to be the only world view that can actually work, and that is consistent not only with logic and natural law, but also with human experience.

God's hand is actively at work within all of his creation, and in every aspect of our lives he can be seen to be intimately involved: In every topic we investigate, from ethics to ecology, the truth is found only in relationship to God and his revelation. God created the natural world and natural laws. God created our bodies and the moral laws that keep us healthy. God created our minds and the laws of logic and imagination. God created us as social beings and gave us the principles for social and political institutions. God created a world of beauty and the principles of aesthetics and artistic creation. In every area of life, genuine knowledge means discerning the laws and ordinances by which God has structured creation, and then allowing those laws to shape the way we should live. Christianity cannot be limited to only one component of our lives, a mere religious practice or observance, or even a salvation experience. We are compelled to see Christianity as the all-encompassing truth, the root of everything else. It is ultimate reality. (p. 15)

Loving Monday: Succeeding in Business Without Selling Your Soul by John D. Beckett

This is a book about preforming business in a Christian manner. It includes chapters about the Greek influence on the Western world. From the book "In Western culture, the lens through which we view the world has been colored by nearly three thousand years of Greek thought. You know the names. Homer. Thales. Socrates. Plato. Aristotle. What they thought and taught has had a profound impact on how we think. from these Greek thinkers came much that is good, including mathematics, the scientific method, the beautiful language of the New Testament.... But our inheritance from the Greeks also came with some serious baggage. The Greek thinkers, shunning the God of the Hebrews, came up with man-centered and mystical notions to define the world around them." You can read this book online. Hardcover - 176 pages 1 edition (May 1998) Intervarsity Pr; ISBN: 0830819266.