Today, Christianity is often described as a ‘worldview’, especially among Reformed evangelicals in the USA. In this article I return to the 1890 lectures where Scottish theologian James Orr adapted the concept of Weltanschauung for Christian purposes. Although it was coined by Immanuel Kant in 1790, and primarily used in subsequent decades to theorise cultural difference and evaluate aesthetic expression, Orr nevertheless claims that the idea of a worldview is ‘as old as the dawn of reflection’ and thus appropriate to articulating Christianity. I examine Orr's engagement with the Kantian and emerging historicist context, paying particular attention to his epistemological and aesthetic citations and showing how Orr both adopts and departs from the characteristic features of the Kantian subject. I conclude by assessing the philosophical and theological costs of this project that, among other things, positions Christianity for perpetual culture war within secular societies similarly shaped by the post-Kantian subject.

今天，基督教经常被描述为一种“世界观”，尤其是在美国的改革宗福音派人士中。在本文中，我将回到1890年的演讲中，苏格兰神学家詹姆斯·奥尔（James Orr）运用了韦尔丹肖翁（Weltanschauung）的概念出于基督教的目的。尽管它是由伊曼纽尔·康德（Immanuel Kant）于1790年创造的，并在随后的几十年中主要用于理论化文化差异和评估审美表现，但奥尔仍然声称世界观的思想“与反思之初一样古老”，因此适合于表达基督教。我考察了奥尔对康德和新兴历史主义者背景的参与，特别关注了他的认识论和美学引文，并展示了奥尔如何既采用又偏离了康德主题的特征。最后，我通过评估该项目的哲学和神学成本来得出结论，该成本除其他因素外，将基督教带入了由后康德时代的主体所塑造的世俗社会中的永久文化战争。