In chapter two, before any type of analysis of current worldviews can be assessed, Sire takes the reader for a history lesson on how different people have defined (or used) worldview throughout history. His summary of worldviews is broken up into secular thinkers (e.g., Wilhelm Dilthey, Fredrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Michael Foucault), and Christian thinkers (e.g., James Orr, Herman Dooyeweerd, James Olthius, Al Wolters, Ronald Nash, and John Kok). After surveying secular and Christian thinkers in the past, Sire then moves on to what modern people have said about worldviews (e.g., N.T. Wright, Charles Taylor, James Davison Hunter, James K.A. Smith, and Andy Crouch). Sire spends a considerable amount of time reviewing David Naugle
