Naming the Elephant: Worldview as a Concept by James W. Sire Page A

36, 45, 48, 64, 70, 74, 89, 105, 121-22, 173, 179
            death of, 27, 162
            existence of, 18, 21, 45, 48, 75-84, 89, 100-106, 138, 144-45, 148, 182, 190-91, 94
            nature of, 12, 18, 20-21, 27, 45, 48, 53-54, 57, 63, 71-82, 84, 95, 102, 104-5, 138, 140, 164, 167, 176, 180-81
            theistic, 40, 55, 71, 105
    heart, 14, 35-36, 47-54, 98, 103, 122, 125, 128, 130, 132, 142-44, 147-48, 155-56, 159, 162, 165, 167, 180, 183, 194
    hermeneutics, 46, 54, 91-93, 177
    Hinduism, 93-94, 120
    human
            nature, 26-27, 33, 41, 43, 62, 115, 129, 167, 178. See also image of God
            reason, autonomy of, 12, 43, 47, 74, 78, 89, 95
    image of God, 28, 100, 129, 151, 178. See also human
    intuition, 39, 79, 82, 97-98, 102-3, 109, 111, 117
    Islam, 120, 169, 176-77
    knowledge, 9, 12, 30-31, 40, 44, 46, 49, 62, 73, 76-86, 109, 111, 120, 138, 140, 147, 159-60, 162-63, 167, 179, 190, 192
            of God, 52, 78, 80, 84, 89, 103, 109, 138-39, 149
            pragmatic, 12
            pretheoretical, 89
            religious, 74
            secular, 74
            self-knowledge, 82, 86
            sociology of, 129-30, 133, 137, 193
    New Age, 12, 37, 69, 133, 135, 161, 175, 182, 191
    nihilism, 12, 21, 23, 27, 45, 137, 145, 161, 175-76, 194
    ontology, 22, 29-30, 42, 48, 54, 71-77, 80, 88-89, 91, 94-95, 108, 114, 117, 121, 125, 138, 148, 153-54, 160
    pantheism, 12, 54, 93-94, 112, 131, 175,
    perception
            direct, 84, 101, 172
            in general, 26-27, 41, 43, 85, 89, 109, 127-28, 171
    postmodernism, 12, 29, 42-44, 85, 90-91, 93, 95, 119-20, 123, 136, 139-40, 166, 175, 179, 192
    pragmatism, 12
    presupposition
            as commitment, 18, 51, 98, 179
            in culture, 128-29, 147
            definition of, 18-20, 51, 98, 100-107, 149-50
            ontological, 48, 138, 146
            vs. pretheoretical, 37, 97-98, 104, 107, 109
            and reality, 42, 56
            vs. story, 141, 145
            and theology, 91, 107-8
            vs. theoretical, 97, 104
            and thought, 37
            true, 19, 41, 148-49
            and worldview, 15, 19-20, 22, 24, 42, 53, 57, 91, 97-98, 107, 120, 141
    pretheoretical
            category, 43, 92, 99-100
            commitment, 35, 179
            knowledge, 89
            vs. presuppositional, 37, 56, 97-98, 178
            reality, 16, 56, 104, 141
            vs. theoretical, 7, 23-24, 96-109, 65, 60
            thought, 39, 60, 91, 99-109
            truth, 99
            worldview, 97-98, 101, 108, 130, 143
    prime reality, 14, 16, 20, 22, 48, 71, 74-75, 94, 104, 106, 113, 128, 130, 139, 147, 154, 159, 169, 171, 173, 175-76
    really real. See prime reality
    reason 12, 25, 31, 35, 37, 47, 74, 103, 106, 138, 190
            natural, 106
            sufficient, 18, 81, 106
    Scripture, 22, 35, 72, 88-89, 120-21, 124, 143, 150, 191
            Christian (NT), 49-50, 52, 56, 72, 75-76, 109
            Hebrew (OT), 47, 49, 54, 58, 72, 109, 122-23
    social imaginary, 14, 60-68, 98, 117-18, 194
    sensus divinitatus , 46, 89, 101-3, 105, 138
    Taoism, 164-65
    theism, 12, 18-19, 27-28, 54-55, 62, 68, 70-72, 74, 89, 104-5, 112, 116, 131, 134, 139, 145-46, 170-71, 175-76, 180, 190, 192
    theoretical
            definition of, 35, 38-39, 41, 59, 96-97, 99, 108
            commitment, 35-36
            vs. nontheoretical, 40
            philosophy, 38
            vs. presuppositional, 100, 168
            vs. pretheoretical, 7, 23-24, 96-109
            reality, 16, 109
            thought, 34-35, 37, 40, 46, 59, 99, 101, 108-9, 115, 144
            worldview, 97, 111
    transcendence, 43, 46, 54, 74, 95, 99, 102, 104-5, 109, 141, 144-45, 149, 152
    universe, 17, 18, 20, 33, 48, 53-54, 70, 72, 74-76, 80, 90, 98, 104, 111, 114-17, 120, 128, 145-48, 155, 159, 165,