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Authors: Nancy Pearcey
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Douglas, Mary,
65
Druidism,
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dualism and dual consciousness,
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5
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Dupré, Louis,
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72
“Dylan’s” story,
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57
E
Eagleton, Terry,
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114
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15
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235
Edwards, Jonathan,
25
Egnor, Michael,
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eliminative materialism,
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–
8
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as self-refuting,
106
Ellis, Albert,
51
emergentism,
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–
10
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
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15
emotivism,
184
empiricism
Christian response to,
87
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,
214
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15
as idol,
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74
impressionist art and,
260
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62
logical positivism,
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85
practical test and,
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62
mentalism and,
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77
rationalism and,
77
The End of Apologetics
(Penner),
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68
Enlightenment,
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79
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112
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34
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167
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Epicurus,
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epistemology, biblical,
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125
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26
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169
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90
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99
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214
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16
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epistemological sin,
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35
equality and human rights,
224
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26
Erickson, John,
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96
evolution,
115
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18
,
208
,
238
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41
.
See
also Darwinism
evolutionary epistemology,
192
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97
,
230
evolutionary psychology,
100
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101
evolutionary religion,
239
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41
“exchanged” the glory of God (Romans
1
:
23
,
25
),
35
,
41
,
44
,
98
,
256
existentialism, impact on theology,
266
Ezekiel, idols of the heart,
61
F
Fales, Evan,
109
Fawlty Towers
(British television show),
157
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58
feminist theology,
267
fine-tuning problem,
25
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26
Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler,
267
Flesh and Machines
(Brooks),
164
Fletcher, Joseph,
94
foolish, Greek word for,
163
forms, Platonic,
69
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70
Foucault, Michel,
208
free will and freedom,
45
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46
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48
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49
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89
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102
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104
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107
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142
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144
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50
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152
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154
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156
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158
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61
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165
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166
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173
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176
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194
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225
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229
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246
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259
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60
predestination and,
145
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46
“free-loading” from Christianity,
49
,
50
,
190
,
192
,
220
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41
,
257
free-will defense,
141
Fromm, Erich,
51
futile, Greek word for,
163
G
Galileo,
262
Gellner, Ernest,
171
general revelation “what can be known about God is plain to them … in the things that have been made” (Romans
1
:
19
,
20
),
24
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25
,
28
,
30
,
31
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32
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38
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39
,
134
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170
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172
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180
known by undeniable experience,
46
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47
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110
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11
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142
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43
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146
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149
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172
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73
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176
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181
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208
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9
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224
as source of philosophies,
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81
as test for truth claims,
46
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48
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51
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103
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4
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142
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44
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148
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69
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173
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189
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90
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209
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222
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24
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230
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31
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241
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256
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57
genetic information,
26
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27
Gnosticism,
213
The God That Failed
(Koestler),
136
The God Who Is There
(Schaeffer),
161
God “gave them up” (Romans
1
:
24
,
26
,
28
),
39
,
96
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97
,
99
,
135
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36
,
161
,
164
Goldilocks dilemma,
26
Gould, Stephen Jay,
195
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96
Greek polytheism,
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67
Greenstein, George,
26
Gutiérrez, Gustavo,
267
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68
H
Hadot, Pierre,
236
Hall, A. R.,
227
Hamlet,
138
Hank the Cowdog (Erickson),
96
Harries, Karsten,
173
heart (
kardia
),
Greek word for,
62
,
biblical meaning of,
62
Heathenry,
67
Hegel, G. W. F., and Hegelian evolutionary worldview,
115
-
18
,
124
,
208
,
240
,
266
Heidegger, Martin,
235
Heraclitus,
68
Herder, Johann Gottfried,
84
hermeneutics of suspicion,
186
-
87
,
216
Hesse, Hermann,
65
as self-refuting,
116
homosexual behavior,
41
Horgan, John,
47
“horrid doubt,” Darwin’s,
194
-
95
human rights,
95
,
101
,
136
,
224
-
26
,
249
humanism,
229
-
34
Humphrey, Nicholas,
106
Huxley, Aldous,
135
I
idealism, philosophy of,
Hegelian,
115
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17
Kantian,
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83
Romantic,
112
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15
identity politics,
117
idols and idolatry
community, idol of,
117
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23
,
209
–
12
as deification of something in creation,
35
,
42
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44
,
61
,
82
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83
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83
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85
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113
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115
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16
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135
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137
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150
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187
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256
as God substitutes,
35
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37
,
61
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62
,
79
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81
good gifts of God as,
37
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38
of the heart,
61
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62
as human inventions,
124
imagination, idol of,
83
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85
matter, idol of,
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,
45
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48
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5
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109
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11
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165
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190
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