James Sire (Buy on Amazon)
James Sire, a Christian author, has developed a fifth edition of ‘a basic worldview catalogue’; The Universe Next Door (2009). Everyone has a worldview, he explains, whether you know it or not. In the first chapter, an explanation of the term 'worldview' is given; something that we all need to know and that has, admittedly by Sire, been ever changing through time. Indeed, Sire reflects on the standpoint of the world in the twenty first century by comparing two poems:
One of Stephen Crane’s, written in 1899,
A man said to the universe:and a Psalm (Psalm 8) from the Bible which begins and ends,
“Sir, I exist.”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
O Lord, our God,
How majestic is your name in all of the earth!
