world view

“Therefore, I saw my own task especially in extracting those nuclear ideas from the extensive and unshaped substance of a general world view and remolding them into more or less dogmatic forms which in their clear delimitation are adapted for holding solidly together those men who swear allegiance to them.”

Mein Kampf

“If we are not only to defend Christianity against modern attacks," says Dr.S. G. Craig, "but to commend it with any hope of success to the modern world, we must undertake the task armed with a consistent and scientifically conceived life and world view that rests on Christian facts and principles.”

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination

“These two characteristics taken together made it both possible and necessary for Muslims to come to know the learning of earlier civilizations and to assimi - late those elements which harmonized with its world view into Islamic civilization.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas