JHYoder in "'Patience' as a Method in Moral Reasoning" identifies "corrective" patience. It is "the right use of wrong theology." "They use concepts which if absolutized become false, yet serve as part of a valid process. Examples of such concepts listed by Yoder are: Reformers' appeal to "the scriptures"; "the exact meaning of a text" in biblical studies; historicism claim to find "what really happened"; relativism's claims that "all meanings are community dependent"; the appeal to "objectivity"; just about any dichotomy; appeals to levels of generality and specificity in moral debates.
This gets at my take on the idea of a "worldview." It probably had a place, but if absolutized sinks in even calm waters.
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