Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Foreword to the Sixth Edition / Jim Hoover --Preface to the Fifth Edition --A World of Difference: Introduction --A Universe Charged with the Grandeur of God: Christian Theism --The Clockwork Universe: Deism --The Silence of Finite Space: Naturalism --Zero Point: Nihilism--Beyond Nihilism:Existentialism --Journey to the East: Eastern Pantheistic Monism --A Separate Universe: The New Age--Spirituality Without Religion --The Vanished Horizon: Postmodernism --A View from the Middle East: Islamic Theism --The Examined Life: A Life Worth Living --Building a Christian Worldview for the Twenty-First Century: A Work in Progress --Appendix: Worldview diagrams and thumbnail sketches.