What's Your Worldview?
What does your teen actually believe—and why? This witty, thought-provoking guide uses a choose-your-own-path format to help students uncover and evaluate their worldview with clarity and depth.
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What's Your Worldview?
Everyone has a worldview—even if they have never stopped to define it. What's Your Worldview? helps your teen examine what he believes about life, truth, purpose, morality, and God through an engaging, interactive format.
Using a choose-your-own-path approach, the book guides your teen through a series of questions and decisions that gradually reveal the worldview most closely aligned with his current beliefs. Along the way, he is encouraged to think carefully about the assumptions behind his answers and the implications of different ways of viewing the world.
Once your teen arrives at a particular worldview, the book provides a clear explanation of its core beliefs, strengths, challenges, and practical consequences. Reflection questions encourage deeper thinking and help move the discussion beyond simple labels.
Written in a conversational style, the book introduces important concepts from philosophy, theology, and apologetics without becoming overwhelming. Short chapters and an interactive structure make it approachable for teens new to worldview studies, while still providing meaningful opportunities for discussion and analysis.
Whether used independently, as part of a Bible course, or alongside a study of apologetics, What's Your Worldview? helps your teen think more carefully about what he believes, why he believes it, and how those beliefs shape the way he lives.
How to Use What's Your Worldview?
- Have your teen begin at the start of the book and follow the path his answers create. Each choice leads to a new section, helping him discover the worldview that most closely aligns with his current beliefs and assumptions.
- Work through the book at a thoughtful pace. One or two sections each week gives your teen time to consider the questions, evaluate his answers, and reflect on the ideas being presented.
- Encourage honest responses rather than "correct" ones. The goal is not simply to reach a destination, but to better understand the beliefs and assumptions that shape your teen's view of the world.
- Once your teen arrives at a worldview, have him read the summary carefully and consider the reflection questions. Discuss the strengths, challenges, and implications of that worldview together.
- This book works especially well as a springboard for conversations about faith, truth, morality, purpose, and how beliefs influence everyday decisions. Thoughtful discussion often becomes the most valuable part of the experience.
Whether used as part of a Bible course, apologetics study, or independent reading assignment, What's Your Worldview? encourages your teen to think critically about what he believes and why it matters.
Publisher: Crossway
Author: James N. Anderson
Age Recommendation: 14-18
Grade Recommendation: 9th-12th
Faith-Based: Yes
Consumable: No
Pages: 112
Size: 5.25" x 7.75"
ISBN: 9781433538926
Format: Paperback
Copyright: Jan. 31, 2014
Awards and Endorsements:
“I can think of readers to whom I would not give this book: they like their reading material to be straightforward exposition. The notion of an interactive book, where readers are forced to choose distinguishable paths and interact with discrete lines of thought, finding their own worldviews challenged—well, that does not sound very relaxing, and it may be a bit intimidating. But James Anderson has written something that is as creative as it is unusual: he has written a book in clear prose and at a popular level that nevertheless challenges readers to think, and especially to identify and evaluate their own worldviews. If the style is akin to ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books, the content is at least as entertaining and far more important.”
— D. A. Carson, Cofounder and Theologian-at-Large, The Gospel Coalition
“This book will become ‘the book’ that will be used by campus ministers, students, and a host of others who are constantly being drawn into conversations concerning worldviews. The layout of this book is ingenious, helpful, and engaging. The information found in these short pages will provide accurate long-term care for those on a ‘worldview journey.’”
— Rod Mays, Adjunct Professor of Counseling, Reformed Theological Seminary; Executive Pastor, Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church, Greenville, South Carolina
“What’s Your Worldview? is a brilliant concept, because each generation stumbles into its own ways to learn about God. Francis Schaeffer spoke about truth to many now old. James Anderson speaks to the young who grew up with ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books, where the outcome depends on the choices readers make. A great gift for thoughtful teens who need to choose wisely.”
— Marvin Olasky, Editor in Chief, WORLD Magazine
“James Anderson’s What’s Your Worldview is a delightfully innovative apologetic. I know of nothing like it. It gets the reader to interact by asking crucial worldview questions. Depending on the reader’s answers, he is led to further questions, or to a conclusion. Animating the journey is a cogent Christian apologetic, showing that only the Christian worldview yields cogent answers to the questions. Anderson’s approach is both winsome and biblical, as well as being the most creative apologetic book in many years. I pray that it gets a wide readership.”
— John M. Frame, Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy Emeritus, Reformed Theological Seminary
“Thanks to James Anderson for filling a massive gap in apologetics and worldview thinking. This book is unique in that it is wholly and broadly accessible to readers of any background and educational level, and yet written by an accomplished Christian philosopher. Written with wit, clarity, cogency and simplicity, this book ingeniously guides the reader from a chosen worldview to its implications. Urging the reader to connect the conceptual dots of his own thinking, this book should lead its reader either to turmoil or to truth. This will now be the first book on my list for people who ask ultimate questions about Christianity and its relationship to other ways of thinking. Get this book, read it, then get more to give away to friends and family.”
— K. Scott Oliphint, Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Theology and Dean of Faculty, Westminster Theological Seminary
“What’s Your Worldview offers a uniquely interactive approach to finding answers to life’s biggest and most important questions. It makes identifying your worldview, and perhaps replacing it with a better one, an enjoyable adventure.”
— Tim Challies, blogger, Challies.com
“There has been a plethora of books written about worldview in the past 25 years, but Dr. Anderson has done something much better—he has written a book that helps you discern your worldview, and then ask yourself some penetrating questions about it. Is all as it should be in your worldview? Read on, and find out.”
— William B. Fullilove, Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Assistant Academic Dean, Reformed Theological Seminary, Atlanta
“For some time now, the church has been in desperate need of an accessible and practical tool that would help people evaluate the cogency and coherence of their worldviews. Finally, with this new book, that need is being met. James Anderson is one of the brightest new voices in the world of philosophical theology. You will not want to miss this book.”
— Michael J. Kruger, President and Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte
“Not the last word on worldviews, but quite possibly the first! What’s Your Worldview? is creative, clear, and fun, but with some ‘nice’ and necessary sharp edges. I hope and pray it will have the desired effect of making all those who read it stop and think (Isa. 44:19).”
— Daniel Strange, Academic Vice Principal and Tutor in Culture, Religion and Public Theology, Oak Hill Theological College, London
“Dr. James Anderson has provided the church with a unique new tool to help the next generation be prepared to give the reason for the hope that is within them.”
— Hugh Whelchel, Executive Director, The Institute for Faith, Work & Economics; author, How Then Should We Work?
- March 6, 2026
Interactive Read
Steph H.
This book has an interesting take on learning about worldviews. It is written in an interactive "choose your own adventure" style of writing which makes an important topic less dry to a teenage student compared to other books on the market. Thought-provoking reading, great to answer the students' questions, but also prepares them to discuss objections with others.
- August 15, 2023
Creative Worldview book!
Ryan T.
This is choose your own adventure approach to discover your worldview. It takes a really unique approach, and my 13 year old really enjoys that. This book covers many different worldviews and discusses a lot of the major questions people have about them.
- March 19, 2015
Different, interesting way to teach Worldviews!
Annie B.
I bought this to use with my two high schoolers. I read through this little gem and am so excited! It is a really unique book... More like a "Choose Your Own Ending" book. The reader answers a question, then based on their answer is led to another page. Ultimately you end up at a "Worldview". The info on each worldview is informative, but concise. Just enough to educate curious young minds without boredom. I've decided to use this with a class of high schoolers in our coop as well.
