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Birth of a Worldview is a groundbreaking intellectual history of the making of the worldview that came to define western Christian culture for two millennia. Using a broad range of primary sources, Robert Doran narrates the story of how early thinkers wrestled with philosophical and cultural questions in order to form a view that would make sense of their place in the world.
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Doran (Amherst College) explores how early Christian intellectuals expressed their understanding of the cosmos. His concern is not with their ethical codes of behavior, but with how their lifeways distinguished them from other religious groups, and how they thought about God and God's relationship with the earth and the humans on it. The treatment is an intellectual history rather than a description of events. It includes a chronology and a map. First published in 1995 by Westview Press as part of the Explorations series. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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