Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption

by Mark L. Ward Jr.

Are your students prepared? Are they ready to view the world through biblical lenses? Are they equipped to engage the world with scriptural discernment? Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption is a tool that helps teachers equip 11th or 12th grade students with a Christian understanding of all major academic disciplines and cultural arenas. Course goals: Define worldview and demonstrate how worldviews influence the way people think about all of life; Analyze a Biblical worldview in terms of Creation, Fall and Redemption; Apply Creation, Fall and Redemption to real-life issues as well as to making positive contributions to life and culture. Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption Student Text was created to appeal to student interest and develop understanding. Application examples taken from history and recent events resonate with students, motivating them to apply Scripture to issues that are crucial to their spiritual growth. Apologetics is interwoven throughout the textbook, equipping students to defend the foundational teachings of the Bible against competing worldviews. At the same time, the framework of Creation, Fall, Redemption enables students to make distinctively Christian contributions to their culture.

Genres: Theology, Philosophy

473 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2015

About the author

Mark Ward (PhD, Bob Jones University) is a video Bible teacher at Ward on Words who also teaches on RightNow Media and in assorted schools. He has written hundreds of Bible-nerdy articles for various publications; he is also the author of multiple books and textbooks including Basics for a Biblical Worldview (BJU Press, 2021), and Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible (Lexham Press, 2018). His next books are Study to Shew Thyself Approved: How to Read the KJV When You Don’t Live in the 1600s and The Parallel King James New Testament, both forthcoming from Lexham Press.

Reviews

[John Brackbill · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is designed for Christian highschool students, but it would be a good discipleship tool in general. My children are still a few years away from being able to digest this, but as a pastor, I can see myself using this for general discipleship and also a general resource for leadership training. Because it is so thoughtful, concise, engaging, and comprehensive, it is uniquely a helpful broad introduction framework for new believers as well as those seeking to shepherd God's people. Get it, read it. Why? Because it will put the pieces of a biblical worldview together for you in a clarifying way that is so needed in the confusion of society and the landscape of Christianity today.

[Jeremy]

SharperIron review here. WORLD called it a "good textbook" for upper high school students.

[John Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book for young people and adults. I taught much of the material to young people in grades 7-10 and they enjoyed it. I really enjoyed the book for myself. This review is from the perspective of an adult reading for themselves. I would put the book on an introductory level. It gave me a solid understanding of worldview and a solid understanding of worldview from a conservative biblical perspective. It’s greatest aid to me is the “structure and direction” framework, the rest of the framework for doing biblical worldview, and seeing the application of the chapters 1-4 to the arts etc. I came sways feeling like I learned how to apply the concepts to my life. Many times as I read the section on science I thought how helpful this would be for me when talking with my fiends who are naturalists. It was extremely helpful.

[Brandon Boyd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful. Puts together seeming Christianity in all aspects of life. If you like James Sire, you will love and greatly benefit from this book.