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 The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back: An Old Heresy for the New Age. He is the executive director of truthXchange and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America.
This is a key book for understanding the profound worldview shift
in all the West (not just North America, but Latin America
included). Peter Jones carefully analyzes its religious
underpinnings and, in light of the Scriptures, demonstrates that
there are only two choices. I highly recommend this work as the
mature reflections of a scholar who has dedicated the last 20 years
to this topic.
--Rev. Bill Green, Executive Secretary, Confraternidad
Latinoamericana de Iglesias Reformadas (CLIR), Costa Rica
I have worked as a legal campaigner in Great Britain for two
decades and witnessed the devastation of a politico-legal system
that embraces Oneism and denies Twoism. There is a suppression of
Christianity in the public sphere, robbing our nation of what is
good for all. Peter Jones brilliantly explains how and why we are
in such chaos, equipping us to speak and act relevantly in a
culture steeped in old paganism.
--Andrea Williams, Chief Executive, Christian Concern and Christian
Legal Centre, London, England
Dr. Peter Jones' new book is spot on! His historical, theological,
and cultural analysis is of the highest caliber, inspiring both
great concern for the Church of the 21st century and great hope.
The Other Worldview is a must read for all Christian leaders who
recognize and proclaim that God is the creator and we are his
creation!
--The Rt. Rev. Dr. Eric Vawter Menees, Anglican Diocese of San
Joaquin, Fresno, California
My good friend 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.
--Dr. John M. Frame, J. D. Trimble Professor of Systematic Theology
and Philosophy, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, Florida
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.
--Rev. Dr. Gabriel N.E. Fluhrer, Senior Minister, Shiloh Orthodox
Presbyterian Church, Raleigh, North Carolina
The velocity and intensity of the cultural death spiral is
overwhelming, yet its inevitable trajectory is affirmed in
Scripture. In The Other Worldview, Peter Jones, with careful
Biblical analysis, unfolds the inevitable embrace of paganism and
its assured dissipation--unless arrested by a God-exalting, Gospel
proclamation of both common grace and redeeming grace displayed in
word and deed.
--Harry L. Reeder, Senior Pastor, Briarwood Presbyterian Church,
Birmingham, Alabama
The Christian faith's battles are sometimes described as "culture
wars," but Peter Jones' new book shows them to be nothing less than
a war of worldviews. Peter is spot on when he identifies the
philosophia perennis as underlying the seductive paganisms, ancient
and modern, Eastern and Western. The monism and pantheism inherent
in such views fail to distinguish between the Creator and the
creature, the One and the many.
The Bible's worldview is quite distinct from the rest of the
ancient East, and the contemporary West's entanglement with
"Eastern spirituality" arises out of its rejection of the biblical
paradigm. Atheistic secularism is under pressure from the innate
human need for the spiritual--and this provides the opportunity for
myriad spiritualities that justify any and every promiscuity under
the guise of being "non-judgmental." Peter is absolutely right in
his trenchant criticism of the desire to reconcile opposites and
thus to obscure the difference between good and evil, right and
wrong--even, perhaps especially, when this is done in the name of
science.
Today, we need both a critique of the unexamined assumptions of
Western culture and a competent apologetic for the Christian
analysis of the human condition in a universe continually dependent
on its Creator, who cannot simply be identified with it. We are in
Peter's debt for providing such a critique and apologetic in this
book.
--Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, President of the Oxford Centre for
Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue (OXTRAD), and formerly
Bishop of Rochester, England
If the 21st century is looking more and more like the gnostic world
of the first two centuries, we should be grateful that God has also
provided another Irenaeus to go with it. Peter Jones has for
decades been a prophetic voice, and here he puts his wealth of
wisdom and insight into something of a magnum opus, an Against
Heresies for our time--although he would rightly insist on the
singular, "heresy," instead of its plural. The Other Worldview is a
must-read that brilliantly explains why.
--Dr. Brian Mattson, Senior Scholar of Public Theology, Center For
Cultural Leadership, Coulterville, California
What Francis Schaeffer did for so many in the second half of the
20th century--that is, opening eyes to issues behind the issues,
the deep worldview undercurrents that dehumanize and wreak havoc on
culture--Peter Jones has done for us in the first half of the 21st
century. The Other Worldview offers probing analysis of how Romans
1--the exchange of Creator for creation worship--has taken tragic
shape in Western culture. Where many books focus on
symptom-treating, Jones takes us to the disease and points us to
the only possible remedy--the Gospel of Twoism.
--Dr. Thaddeus Williams, Assistant Professor of Theology, Talbot
School of Theology, Biola University, La Mirada, California
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