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"The Abolition of Man?"

"After Learning: The Liturgical Consummation of Worldviews" Part 1

"After Learning: The Liturgical Consummation of Worldviews" Part 2

"Der Anti-Christ"

"Trousered Apes, Urban Blockheads, Men Without Chests:
C. S. Lewis's Philosophy of Education in The Abolition of Man"

A lecture presented at the Inklings Conference,
First Baptist Church, Parker, Texas, April 30, 2005

"After the End of Art: A Kairos Moment for Christians in the Arts"
- Introduction to Findings, Winter 2002
- read it online

"Agapic Reading: How to Read the Bible and Other Literature to Enhance Love for God and Neighbor"
- for the SW Conference on Christianity and Literature, October 2-3, 1998

"The Age of the World Picture: Hermeneutics and the Weltanschauung Theory"

"The Apocalyptic Rhetoric of Dispensational Premillennialism"

"St. Augustine's Concept of Disordered Love and its Contemporary Application"

"Be on the Alert! An Advent Meditation"

"The Big Picture: Developing a Christian Worldview"
An indepth outline of four talks delivered at Laity Lodge, Kerrville, Texas,
May 13-15, 2005

"A Biblical Philosophy of Sport and Play”
- for the Friday Symposium, September 15, 1995

"Building Christian Academies: The Rediscovery and Recovery of Classic Traditions
in Christian Higher Education"

- for the Friday Symposium, September 7, 2001

"A Case for Higher Education that is Christian"

"Calvinism and Baptists: Friends or Foes?"
Dr. Naugle's remarks on "Calvinism and Baptists: Friends or Foes?" at the G5 Summit sponsored by the Center for Informed Faith, Houston, Texas, November 7, 2009

"The Christian College and Adult Education"

"A Christian Worldview and the Futures of Evangelicalism"
- A paper presented to the Midwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, March 20, 2004.
- Listen to the audio of this speech

"Christianity and Popular Culture"
- Introduction to Findings, Spring 2003
- read it online

"Clashing Civilizations, Culture Wars, and the Academy: The Illuminating Role
of 'Worldview'"

-A Lecture for Dallas Christian Leadership, SMU Luncheon Lecture Series,
September 30, 2003

Accompanying handout for lecture on "Clashing Civlizations, Culture Wars and the Academy"

“The Clash of Civilizations: A Theological Perspective”
-The Friday Symposium February 1, 2002

"R. G. Collingwood and the Hermeneutic Tradition"
- Spring 1993

"Competing Cultures of Advent "
- An Advent Meditation presented in Gaston Chapel at Dallas Baptist University, December 13, 2005

"Competing Cultures of Advent Part 2."
Read Dr. Naugle's recent DBU Advent Chapel Homily

"Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Other Worldviews" -The Outline.
-Listen to Dr. Naugle's recent lecture on "Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Other Worldviews" given on June 4, 2007 in the Theology Live! lecture series at the Ginger Man sponsored by the Uptown Church at Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, Texas. Listen to the podcast

"The Cosmic Christ of Colossians, Colossians 1: 15-23"

"Culture in Context and a Christian Mind"
- A talk given at the "Christian Mind and Crisis of Culture" retreat at Osprey Point Leadership Center, September 4, 2004.

"Developing a Christian Mind, Part I"
(Plenary address for The Society of Classical Learning, June 19, 2003,
Dallas, Texas
)

"Developing a Christian Mind, Part II"
(Second Plenary address for The Society of Classical Learning, June 19, 2003, Dallas, Texas)

"Developing a Christian Mind"
A presentation given by Dr. Naugle at the Wilberforce Forum's Centurions Conference, July 8, 2005 at the National Conference Center, Lansdowne, Virginia (includes an outline and a new version of a Screwtape Letter)

"Wilhelm Dilthey's Doctrine of World Views and its Relationship to Hermeneutics"
- Spring 1993

"John Donne's Poetic Philosophy of Love"

"An Introduction to a Reformational Worldview"

"Facing East: The Eastern Orthodox Worldview of Alexander Schmemann-
Creation, Fall, and Redemption in Sacramental Perspective"

- for the Friday Symposium, February 6, 1998

"Engaging God's World: Your Life, your Culture and Your Worldview"
- A talk given to teenage leaders at the Student Leadership University, July 21, 2004, Orlando, Florida
Outline version of Engaging God's World

"Fragrance of Christ"
- A Commencement Speech presented at the graduation ceremony of Coram Deo Academy, Flower Mound, Texas, May 8, 2004

"The Great Conversation: Liberal Arts Education and Dallas Baptist University"
- for the Friday Symposium

"The Gospel of the Kingdom of God"
- A chapel talk delivered at Dallas Baptist University during the Worship Formation Program on April 2, 2004

"Happiness in the Fourth Epistle of Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man"

"How the Church Lost Her Story and What She Can Do To Get It Back: Helping Churches Develop a Biblical Worldview" (Plus a New Screwtape Letter for Pastors!)
- A keynote addressed delivered at the Talking Points Seminary at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary September 20, 2004

“How to be Transformed in College: The Role of the Christian Worldview”

"Image and Text: A Theology of Byzantine Icons with Emphasis on the Sixth-Century Tapestry Panel Icon of the Virgin"

"The Intellectual and Religious Development of T. S. Eliot Reflected in Selected Readings of His Poetry with Emphasis on Ash Wednesday"

"Is Wisdom Really Better Than Gold? Reflections on Proverbs 2 and Its Educational Implications"
- A paper presented at the Friday Symposium, Dallas Baptist University, September 10, 2004.

"Søren Kierkegaard’s Interpretation of Mozart’s Opera Don Giovanni: An Appraisal and Theological Response"

"Language, Liturgy and Life: Towards a Christian Vision of Education"
- An address delivered at Lexington Christian Academy "Cultivating Inquiry"

"Life, Learning, and the Christian Mind: Matters of Consequence"
- Cambridge Preparatory Academy Lecture, February 21, 2002

"Longing, Expecting, Preparing"
- An Advent Homily, December 7, 2004

"The Lordship of Christ Over the Whole of Life: An Introduction to the Thought of Abraham Kuyper"
- for the Friday Symposium, February 2, 2001

"The Lordship of Christ Over the Whole of Life"
- An Introduction to the Thought of Abraham Kuyper; A presentation made to the Centurion's program, Wilberforce Forum, October 11, 2005
- A Fact Sheet on Abraham Kuyper
- A Power Point Presentation on the Abraham Kuyper Lecture

"The Mega-Church Mistake" from the Friday Symposium lecture on February 1 2008.

“David Naugle and the Quest for a Theory of Everything: A Response"
(This is Dr. Naugle's response to a review of his book on worldview by
Theodore Plantinga of Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario)

"Narrative and Life: The Central Role of Stories in Human Experience"
- for the Friday Symposium, February 5, 1999

"Neo-Classical Poetics in Pope’s An Essay on Criticism"

"A New Screwtape Letter

"No Adult Left Behind: The Christian College and Adult Education," A paper given to the faculty at Southwestern College, Phoenix, Arizona on August 12, 2008.

"Of Hospitals and Universities: Comparing the Work of Medical Doctors with Patients and University Doctors with Students"

"Of Hospitals and Universities: Lessons for Professors By Comparing Medicine and Education" A presentation to the faculty of Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, February 25, 2005

"A Paideia Proposal: The Educational Power of Great Tradition Christianity" (Unabridged version)
A paper presented at Baylor University on October 31, 2004 at the conference
“The Schooled Heart: Moral Formation in American Higher Education”

"A Paideia Proposal: The Educational Power of Great Tradition Christianity" (Abridged version)

"Paradigms of Happiness in the Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Saint Augustine"

"The Platonic Concept of Love: The Symposium"

"Pope John Paul II, Cultural Change, and Christian Scholarship"
- for the Pew College Society Spring Student Conference, April 7-8, 2000

"Postmodern Anthropology"

"Alvin Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology: Analysis and Critique"
- for the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, Texas, March 18-19, 1994

"The Pursuit of Happiness"
Commencement Address given at DBU's December 19th, 2008 Graduation Ceremonies

"Recovering Integrity in Education: A Biblical Response to the Problem of Compartmentalization"
- An address delivered at the Annapolis Area Christian School Summer Institute for Teachers, Osprey Point Leadership Center, June 21-25, 2004

"Recovering the Lost Tools of Learing"
A Lecture and Powerpoint presentation given by Dr. Naugle at Mountain View College, October 26, 2006, Dallas, Texas.

"Regaining Integrity: A Christian Worldview and Public Life"
- A talk given at the "Christian Mind and the Crisis of Culture" retreat at the
Osprey Point Leadership Center, September 4, 2004.

"Renewing Integrity: A Christian Worldview and Educational Practice"
- An address delivered at the National Faculty Leadership Conference, Washington, D. C, June 24-27, 2004

"Reordered Love, Reordered Lives,"
A talk given on July 1, 2008, as a part of the Theology Live! series sponsored by the Uptown Church at the Church of the Incarnation in Dallas.

"Re-Thinking Ecclesiology: The Worldview-Driven Church (A Critique of Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Church)"
- for the Friday Symposium, February 14, 2003

Re-Thinking Ecclesiology: The Worldview Driven Church: The Theological Vision, Part Two
- for the Friday Symposium, September 12, 2003

Re-Thinking Ecclesiology: The Worldview Driven Church: The Ministerial Vision, Part Three
- for the Friday Symposium, February 13, 2004

The Reviving of the Light: The Educational Vitality of a Christian Worldview
- a presentation to the faculty of Charleston Southern University, August 12, 2004

Dorothy L. Sayers's "The Lost Tools of Learning and the Art of Critical Thinking"

"Schooled But Uneducated? A Transforming Vision of Christian Higher Education: The Pew College Society Vision and Program at Dallas Baptist University"
- a paper presented at the Christianity and the Soul of the University Conference at Baylor University, March 26, 2004.

"Scrutinizing a Scandal"

"Skoold but Ineducatd? How to Get an Education Even Though You're in College!"
- for the Friday Symposium, September 10, 1999

"Solomon the Scholar"

"Stoic and Christian Conceptions of Happiness"

"Ten Lectures of the Concept of Worldview"

"Towards a Christian Perspective of Adult Education"

“A Vision of the Heart — A Biblical Worldview and Christian Higher Education”
- Oral Roberts University Faculty Assembly, 2001 Summer Summit

"Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, and Fredrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy"

"Time, History, Advent: A Meditation on the Meaning of the Advent Season"

"Trousered Apes, Urban Blockheads, Men Without Chests:
C. S. Lewis's Philosophy of Education in The Abolition of Man"

A lecture presented at the Inklings Conference,
First Baptist Church, Parker, Texas, April 30, 2005
Read "A Vision for Campus Ministry"
This is a recently edited version of the vision statement of the campus
ministry that Dr. Naugle directed at UT-Arlington in the mid-1980s.
 

"What Does it Really Mean to Know Something? The Contribution of Michael Polanyi to Science and Education"
- for the Friday Symposium, September 13, 2002

"What Would Jesus Think? Developing a Christian Worldview"
(a sermon by Dr. Naugle)
Duration:48 mins.14 sec. (requires Real Player)

"Who Made, Who Marr'd, and Who Has Ransom'd Man: Worldview and the Work of William Cowper"
- Dr. Naugle's keynote address presented at the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, September 28, 2006, Abilene Christian University.

"Who Made, Who Marr'd, and Who Has Ransom'd Man: Worldview and the Work of William Cowper"
Dr. Naugle's keynote address presented at the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, September 28, 2006, Abilene Christian University.

"Whose Faith? Which Worldview? Human Nature and the Academic Enterprise"
- a presentation to the faculty of Charleston, Southern University, August 12, 2004

"WithoutWax: Reflections on Dr. Naugle's Trip to China"

"The Works of Love"
- a wedding homily for Russell and Christi Hemati, May 15, 2004

"The Complete Hemati-Williams Wedding Service"

A Worldview Bibliography

A Worldview: History, Theology, Implications
- A paper presented at the After Worldview Conference, Cornerstone University,
Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 17, 2004


"Worldview, Worship, and Way of Life"
- A paper presented at the Calvin College Symposium on
Worship: Word, Music, Vision, Action, January 27-29, 2005


 

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