Brendan K. O'Rourke
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Why You Think the Way You Do
- The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home
- By: Glenn S. Sunshine
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of the worldviews that underpin the Western world. Professor and historian Glenn S. Sunshine demonstrates the decisive impact that the growth of Christianity had in transforming the outlook of pagan Roman culture into one that—based on biblical concepts of humanity and its relationship with God—established virtually all the positive aspects of Western civilization.
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2 out of 5 stars
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"Christian's view of the western world"
- By Bradley on 03-21-10
- Why You Think the Way You Do
- The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home
- By: Glenn S. Sunshine
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Erudite but polemical tour de force
Reviewed: 10-06-11
This is a fun listen, especially if you are an leftist atheist like me and want to get a feel for where conservative Christians are coming from. Sunshine takes us on a tour from ancient Greek and Roman thought to the hot button issues of the American culture wars. The tour is an increasingly embattled one as Sunshine, using his keen mind and writing skills, to provide a defensive worldview that promotes the greatness of a particular view of Christianity by crudely summarizing and belittling its critics. Along the way there is much to be learned from Sunshine, especially if you have read alternative readings of similar subjects and can put Sunshine's interpretations alongside others (e.g. Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy). Sunshine also seems genuinely passionate about some real moral problems such as modern slavery and while I find his worldview troubling, he does try to link his philosophy to these problems. I suspect Sunshine would be even more interesting, and probably a better proponent of his worldview if he raised more questions and admitted more doubts into his discourses. BKOR, Dublin
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