The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes.
All of science is largely formalized common sense.
The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.
The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the details. Cut to the core by asking, What is its idol?' Whatever functions as its God substitute will shape everything else.