Really basic level worldview material
At Amazon on Kindle there's a book titled Handbook on World Views by Norman Geisler. It's $5.99.
I know Geisler is not a Calvinist and all that, but this particular book is not effected by that.
It is very basic. Just seven chapters based on types of religions. Theism, Deism, Atheism, Finite Godism, Pantheism, Panentheism, Polytheism.
What intrigues me about the book is even though its pretty much a run-through of the basics, sometimes the basics can give you very deep impressions.
For instance I could see in these chapters deep impressions of the Kingdom of Satan. Not so much the bloody hell of it, but more the illusions it casts. I could see it in works of art and literature too. The lure of the false religions. I guess mostly in the three that begin with 'P' listed above.
Deep in the foundation of western civilization are the Homeric epics and Greek myth in general with all of its variant on polytheism. I.e. we don't just get that as a fairly recent import from the east.
Calvinists were dealing with such things from the Native Americans they were in conflict with in the dark, antedeluvian-like forests of the New World...
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