In the next few weeks/ months ... I shall be blogging through Bennie van der Walt's excellent new book:

 

The Eye is the Lamp of the Body: Worldviews and their Impact.
Potchefstroom: ICCA
ISBN 978-1-86822-55-2; iii +304 pages
 

Worldviews is a topic that South African philosopher-theologian B J van der Walt has dealt with before; this though is his first full book-length treatment of worldviews. 

This is a book of two halves.  The first deals with a theoretical reflection on what is a worldview, the second part deals with how worldviews influence life; the first deals with the what, the second with the how. This is a collection of articles that have mostly been published elsewhere, mostly in Afrikaans, notably in Koers and Tydskrif vir Christelike Wetenskap. Despite that the book hangs together as a coherent whole. 

Chapter 1 sets the scene by explaining the title of the book – the eye represents what a person looks like and the eye is a lamp illuminating the way.  This dual purpose is expressed in worldviews. He presents a fascinating structural analysis of worldviews using Dooyeweerd’s modal aspects.

 

I'll  post what he writes in the comments (sometime soon); in the meantime:

 

How would you analyse worldviews in terms of modal theory?

 

Is it appropriate to  apply modal theory to worldviews?

 

I've posted the modal analysis here .