| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Prologue: Uncle Andrew in C. S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew | 1 |
| 1 | The Wonder of Worldview I: Protestant Evangelicalism | 4 |
| Original Worldview Thinkers in Protestant Evangelicalism | 5 |
| 2 | The Wonder of Worldview II: Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy | 33 |
| Roman Catholicism | 33 |
| Eastern Orthodoxy | 44 |
| 3 | A Philological History of "Worldview" | 55 |
| Word Studies in Weltanschauung | 55 |
| The First Use of Weltanschauung in Immanuel Kant | 58 |
| The Use of Weltanschauung in German and Other European Languages | 59 |
| Weltanschauung and "Worldview" in the English-Speaking World | 64 |
| 4 | A Philosophical History of "Worldview": The Nineteenth Century | 68 |
| "Worldview" in G. W. F. Hegel | 68 |
| "Worldview" and "Lifeview" in Soren Kierkegaard | 73 |
| "Worldview" in Wilhelm Dilthey | 82 |
| "Worldview" and Perspectivism in Friedrich Nietzsche | 98 |
| 5 | A Philosophical History of "Worldview": The Twentieth Century I | 108 |
| "Worldview" in Edmund Husserl | 108 |
| "Worldview" in Karl Jaspers | 121 |
| "Worldview" in Martin Heidegger | 128 |
| 6 | A Philosophical History of "Worldview": The Twentieth Century II | 148 |
| "Worldview" and "World Picture" in Ludwig Wittgenstein | 148 |
| Donald Davidson on "Conceptual Schemes" | 162 |
| "Worldview" and Postmodernity | 173 |
| 7 | A Disciplinary History of "Worldview" I: The Natural Sciences | 187 |
| Michael Polanyi's Tacit Dimension and Personal Knowledge in the Natural Sciences | 188 |
| Thomas Kuhn's Paradigm Revolution in the Philosophy of Science | 196 |
| 8 | A Disciplinary History of "Worldview" II: The Social Sciences | 209 |
| "Worldview" in Psychology | 211 |
| "Worldview" in Sociology | 222 |
| "Worldview" in Cultural Anthropology | 238 |
| 9 | Theological Reflections on "Worldview" | 253 |
| Worldviews and "Worldview" | 253 |
| Christian Worldview and "Worldview" | 259 |
| 10 | Philosophical Reflections on "Worldview" | 291 |
| Worldview and Semiotics | 292 |
| Worldview and Narrative | 297 |
| Worldview and Reason | 303 |
| Worldview and Hermeneutics | 310 |
| Worldview and Epistemology | 321 |
| 11 | Concluding Reflections | 331 |
| Dangers of Worldview | 331 |
| Benefits of Worldview | 339 |
| Epilogue: Eustace in C. S. Lewis's The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" | 346 |
| App. A | Synopses of Additional Evangelical Worldview Contributions | 349 |
| App. B | A Bibliography of Books on the Christian Worldview Not Addressed in this Volume | 357 |
| Works Cited | 360 |
| Index | 378 |