This primer begins by introducing the basic concepts of worldview. It then outlines Christianity's answers to the worldview questions of origins, purpose, and destiny. As a primer is wider than it is deep, this one sets forth only broadly those concepts that shape the Christian worldview. It seeks to provide a bird's eye view of the story of God's revelation for those who have begun their faith journey without necessarily having had the benefit of an in-depth instruction in the faith. It m...

Bringing to a close his 'Marseille' trilogy, César (1936) was one of Marcel Pagnol's most significant projects. This text reviews the questions that Pagnol posed in the film, looking at how he reflected the contemporary and artistic culture of the city, around which the trilogy was based. Above all, Stephen Heath looks at César's relation to the contemporary artistic and cultural-historical reality of Marseille, the defining locality of the trilogy and in many ways its ma...

In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of 'literature' has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. It takes as its starting point Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, from which it then travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. Among its many concerns are the legacies of Goethe's idea, variable understandings of the term 'literature' itself, cross-cultural encounters,...