My criticisms of the now-vacuous concept of worldview are legion (here and here for two recent ones). But you can go here to read the master's thesis of Jeremy Hexham, "The Appropriation of the Dutch Neo-Calvinist Concept of 'Worldview,' and the Way It Was Popularized Among American Evangelical Christians by Francis Schaeffer." Quite a mouthful.
In 81 tightly argued but well-written pages, Hexham provides a painstaking historical account to reach a conclusion that the "transformation of the concept of worldview from an analytic tool to an excuse for not engaging people and ideas that contradict one’s prejudices, is the tragedy of the American evangelical worldview as it exists today." In other words, worldview as Critical Theory for white evangelicals.
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