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Two Competing Worldviews
A cataclysmic change has occurred over the past few decades. Our culture as a whole has switched worldviews.
According to Peter Jones, all the religions and philosophies of the world can be divided into two basic worldviews. These two perspectives differ on the fundamental nature of reality. Is everything essentially one? Or does an irreducible distinction exist between creation and Creator?
In The Other Worldview, Jones explains the difference between what he calls “Oneism” and “Twoism.” He exposes the pagan roots of Oneism, and he traces its spread and influence throughout Western culture. Most importantly, he shows us why Oneism is incapable of saving anyone or truly changing the world for the better.
“For bodily holiness and transformed thinking . . . we depend entirely on one amazing thing: the incredibly powerful message of the Gospel to a sinful world, which is the ultimate expression and goal of Twoism. The only hope is in Christ alone.”
Paperback, 272 pages
Publication Date: April 2015
Endorsements
A must-read for every concerned American—and especially for every Christian who weeps at the graveside of his culture.
From the foreword by R.C. Sproul, founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries
In The Other Worldview, Peter Jones argues that the ills of modern culture stem from its denial of the biblical creator-creature distinction. Peter has made this case before, but here he presents his most substantial, detailed, and illuminating account of this modern consciousness, from ancient paganism and Gnosticism to such modern thinkers as Carl Jung. In the end Peter shows how the biblical gospel of salvation from sin in Christ provides the only adequate challenge to neo-pagan “oneism” and the only way for us to know God as he really is.
—John M. Frame, J.D. Trimble Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy, Reformed Theological Seminary
For over two decades, Peter Jones’s work has proven indispensable for any Christian who wants to understand how to reach the pagan West with the gospel of Jesus Christ. In The Other Worldview, he helps readers see that there really are only two options available for how we view reality; Christianity and everything else. With the rare and enviable gift of being able to make complex ideas accessible, Dr. Jones shows that the other worldview, in its varied expressions, cannot withstand intellectual scrutiny.
—Gabriel Fluhrer, Senior Minister, Shiloh Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Table of Contents
Foreword by R.C. Sproul
A Ticket to Ride—But to Where?
Part 1: Coming Apart
The Rise and Fall of Secular Humanism
Carl Jung’s Dream for a “New Humanity”
The Perennial Philosophy—The Origin of Contemporary Spirituality
The Sixties Spiritual and Sexual Revolution
A Destructive Generation
Part 2: Given Over
A Cosmology of Radical Egalitarianism
Pagan Cosmology of Synthesis: The Joining of Reason and Spirit
Salvation by Shaman
Part 3: Not Giving Up
Christian Compromise with Culture
A Whole or Holy Cosmos?
Blowing the Mind
Gospel Power: A Given-Over Savior
Endorsements
A must-read for every concerned American—and especially for every Christian who weeps at the graveside of his culture.
Two Competing Worldviews
A cataclysmic change has occurred over the past few decades. Our culture as a whole has switched worldviews.
According to Peter Jones, all the religions and philosophies of the world can be divided into two basic worldviews. These two perspectives differ on the fundamental nature of reality. Is everything essentially one? Or does an irreducible distinction exist between creation and Creator?
In The Other Worldview, Jones explains the difference between what he calls “Oneism” and “Twoism.” He exposes the pagan roots of Oneism, and he traces its spread and influence throughout Western culture. Most importantly, he shows us why Oneism is incapable of saving anyone or truly changing the world for the better.
“For bodily holiness and transformed thinking . . . we depend entirely on one amazing thing: the incredibly powerful message of the Gospel to a sinful world, which is the ultimate expression and goal of Twoism. The only hope is in Christ alone.”
Paperback, 272 pages
Publication Date: April 2015
Endorsements
A must-read for every concerned American—and especially for every Christian who weeps at the graveside of his culture.
From the foreword by R.C. Sproul, founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries
In The Other Worldview, Peter Jones argues that the ills of modern culture stem from its denial of the biblical creator-creature distinction. Peter has made this case before, but here he presents his most substantial, detailed, and illuminating account of this modern consciousness, from ancient paganism and Gnosticism to such modern thinkers as Carl Jung. In the end Peter shows how the biblical gospel of salvation from sin in Christ provides the only adequate challenge to neo-pagan “oneism” and the only way for us to know God as he really is.
—John M. Frame, J.D. Trimble Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy, Reformed Theological Seminary
For over two decades, Peter Jones’s work has proven indispensable for any Christian who wants to understand how to reach the pagan West with the gospel of Jesus Christ. In The Other Worldview, he helps readers see that there really are only two options available for how we view reality; Christianity and everything else. With the rare and enviable gift of being able to make complex ideas accessible, Dr. Jones shows that the other worldview, in its varied expressions, cannot withstand intellectual scrutiny.
—Gabriel Fluhrer, Senior Minister, Shiloh Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Table of Contents
Foreword by R.C. Sproul
A Ticket to Ride—But to Where?
Part 1: Coming Apart
The Rise and Fall of Secular Humanism
Carl Jung’s Dream for a “New Humanity”
The Perennial Philosophy—The Origin of Contemporary Spirituality
The Sixties Spiritual and Sexual Revolution
A Destructive Generation
Part 2: Given Over
A Cosmology of Radical Egalitarianism
Pagan Cosmology of Synthesis: The Joining of Reason and Spirit
Salvation by Shaman
Part 3: Not Giving Up
Christian Compromise with Culture
A Whole or Holy Cosmos?
Blowing the Mind
Gospel Power: A Given-Over Savior
Endorsements
A must-read for every concerned American—and especially for every Christian who weeps at the graveside of his culture.
Two Competing Worldviews
A cataclysmic change has occurred over the past few decades. Our culture as a whole has switched worldviews.
According to Peter Jones, all the religions and philosophies of the world can be divided into two basic worldviews. These two perspectives differ on the fundamental nature of reality. Is everything essentially one? Or does an irreducible distinction exist between creation and Creator?
In The Other Worldview, Jones explains the difference between what he calls “Oneism” and “Twoism.” He exposes the pagan roots of Oneism, and he traces its spread and influence throughout Western culture. Most importantly, he shows us why Oneism is incapable of saving anyone or truly changing the world for the better.
“For bodily holiness and transformed thinking . . . we depend entirely on one amazing thing: the incredibly powerful message of the Gospel to a sinful world, which is the ultimate expression and goal of Twoism. The only hope is in Christ alone.”
Paperback, 272 pages
Publication Date: April 2015
Table of Contents
Foreword by R.C. Sproul
A Ticket to Ride—But to Where?
Part 1: Coming Apart
The Rise and Fall of Secular Humanism
Carl Jung’s Dream for a “New Humanity”
The Perennial Philosophy—The Origin of Contemporary Spirituality
The Sixties Spiritual and Sexual Revolution
A Destructive Generation
Part 2: Given Over
A Cosmology of Radical Egalitarianism
Pagan Cosmology of Synthesis: The Joining of Reason and Spirit
Salvation by Shaman
Part 3: Not Giving Up
Christian Compromise with Culture
A Whole or Holy Cosmos?
Blowing the Mind
Gospel Power: A Given-Over Savior
Endorsements
A must-read for every concerned American—and especially for every Christian who weeps at the graveside of his culture.
—From the foreword by R.C. Sproul, founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries
In The Other Worldview, Peter Jones argues that the ills of modern culture stem from its denial of the biblical creator-creature distinction. Peter has made this case before, but here he presents his most substantial, detailed, and illuminating account of this modern consciousness, from ancient paganism and Gnosticism to such modern thinkers as Carl Jung. In the end Peter shows how the biblical gospel of salvation from sin in Christ provides the only adequate challenge to neo-pagan “oneism” and the only way for us to know God as he really is.
—John M. Frame, J.D. Trimble Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy, Reformed Theological Seminary
For over two decades, Peter Jones’s work has proven indispensable for any Christian who wants to understand how to reach the pagan West with the gospel of Jesus Christ. In The Other Worldview, he helps readers see that there really are only two options available for how we view reality; Christianity and everything else. With the rare and enviable gift of being able to make complex ideas accessible, Dr. Jones shows that the other worldview, in its varied expressions, cannot withstand intellectual scrutiny.
—Gabriel Fluhrer, Senior Minister, Shiloh Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Author
Peter Jones(PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is the author of many books, including One or Two: Seeing a World of Difference, The God of Sex: How Spirituality Defines Your Sexuality, and Gospel Truth/Pagan Lies: Can You Tell the Difference? He is the executive director of truthXchange and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America.
