P&R Publishing is committed to promoting biblical understanding and godly living in accordance with the Westminster Standards. As part of our mission, this web page and its links are designed to provide helpful material and resources about worldview issues—the Christian worldview, competing worldviews, and the concept of worldview. Specifically, this page and its links provide material and resources related to the content and teaching of W. Andrew Hoffecker’s Revolutions in Worldview: Understanding the Flow of Western Thought (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2007). The key concepts of this seminal book can be summarized as follows:

“All humans are committed to their basic beliefs; otherwise, these beliefs would not be basic. Our commitments to our basic beliefs are core commitments—we cling to them; they are nonnegotiable; we express them in every facet of our lives. Basic beliefs and core commitments are the fundamental aspects of a worldview, since, by definition, they determine how we understand the world and what aspects of that understanding are nonnegotiable. Thus, having and living out a worldview are inescapable aspects of being human. To be human is to have a worldview. So although we might associate worldview with complex philosophical systems—from Platonism to Cartesianism to postmodernist proposals—worldview also is fundamental to what it means to be human. Basic beliefs are religious in nature because they are basic beliefs; core commitments are religious in nature because they are core commitments. Religion is fundamentally a matter of basic beliefs and core commitments—a worldview. Thus all worldviews are religious, and all people are religious. All thinking and doing arise from or are motivated by our core commitments, our basic beliefs—what the Bible terms ‘the heart and describes as the center of our being.”—Revolutions, xi–xii

To look inside Revolutions in Worldview, click here:

Features & Highlights:
  • 7 x 10 format
  • Outlines
  • Pull Quotes
  • Graphics
  • Study Questions
  • Glossary
  • Subject Index
  • Scripture Index
  • Index of Personal Names and Titles
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • Recommended Resources for Worldview Bibliography
  • Turning Points in Worldview Timeline

For Further Discussion links to material and resources, organized by chapter.
Greeks Bearing Gifts—John M. Frame
  • Biographies
  • Discussions
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Primary Texts
  • For Further Reading
  • Quotations
  • Dedicated Web Sites

The Hebrew World-and-Life View—John D. Currid
  • Biographies
  • Discussions
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Primary Texts
  • For Further Reading
  • Quotations
  • Dedicated Web Sites

New Testament Worldview—Vern Sheridan Poythress
  • Biographies
  • Discussions
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Primary Texts
  • For Further Reading
  • Quotations
  • Dedicated Web Sites

Christianity from the Early Fathers to Charlemagne—Richard C. Gamble
  • Biographies
  • Discussions
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Primary Texts
  • For Further Reading
  • Quotations
  • Dedicated Web Sites

Medieval Theology and the Roots of Modernity—Peter J. Leithart
  • Biographies
  • Discussions
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Primary Texts
  • For Further Reading
  • Quotations
  • Dedicated Web Sites

The Renaissance—Carl Trueman
  • Biographies
  • Discussions
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Primary Texts
  • For Further Reading
  • Quotations
  • Dedicated Web Sites

The Reformation as a Revolution in Worldview—Scott Amos
  • Biographies
  • Discussions
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Primary Texts
  • For Further Reading
  • Quotations
  • Dedicated Web Sites

Enlightenments and Awakenings: The Beginning of Modern Culture Wars—W. Andrew Hoffecker
  • Biographies
  • Discussions
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Primary Texts
  • For Further Reading
  • Quotations
  • Dedicated Web Sites

The Age of Intellectual Iconoclasm: The Nineteenth-Century Revolt against Theism—Richard Lints
  • Biographies
  • Discussions
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Primary Texts
  • For Further Reading
  • Quotations
  • Dedicated Web Sites

Philosophy Among the Ruins: The Twentieth Century and Beyond—Michael W. Payne
  • Biographies
  • Discussions
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Primary Texts
  • For Further Reading
  • Quotations
  • Dedicated Web Sites