The Case for the Psalms: why they are essential

by N.T. Wright

to neglect the church’s original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy.

A “worldview” in this sense is like a pair of spectacles: it is what you look through, not what you look at. Worldviews, in this sense, are complex and consist of the swirling combination of stories, symbols, habitual praxis, and assumed answers to key questions (Who are we? Where are we? What’s wrong? What’s the solution? and What time is it?).