摘要：In this essay, I respond Dale Cannon’s critique of my book, Worldview: The History of a Concept. I am surprised
that Professor Cannon, as a presumed devotee of Michael Polanyi, expected me to offer a scholarly objective
discussion of the history of the concept of worldview. That I did attempt to do in part, but I also had the goal
of rehabilitating the notion of worldview for use in a Christian context. I also respond to his criticism that I
need to offer a more precise description of the concept of worldview itself as either pre-reflective or reflective
in nature, and whether or not a worldview is epistemically representational or more Polanyian in character.
I see it in both/and terms rather than the either/or ways Cannon has offered to me as options. I address his
criticism that I neglect the place and role of the person in my resulting conception of worldview. While I could
have spent more time on this issue, I point out that I ground the notion of worldview in the biblical teaching
about the human “heart” as the seat and source of thought, affection, will and spirituality.
