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Douglas, Mary,
65

Druidism,
67

dualism and dual consciousness,
104
-
5
,
113
,
151
-
65
,
168
-
73

Dupré, Louis,
171
-
72

“Dylan’s” story,
55
-
57

E

Eagleton, Terry,
61
,
114
-
15
,
204
,
235

Edwards, Jonathan,
25

Egnor, Michael,
177
-
81

Einstein, Albert,
43
,
158
-
59

eliminative materialism,
106

8
,

as self-refuting,
106

Ellis, Albert,
51

emergentism,
108

10

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
114
-
15

emotivism,
184

empiricism

Bacon and,
78
,
80

Christian response to,
87
-
88
,
214
-
15

as idol,
72
-
74

impressionist art and,
260
-
62

logical positivism,
184
-
85

practical test and,
261
-
62

mentalism and,
75
-
77

rationalism and,
77

The End of Apologetics
(Penner),
267
-
68

Enlightenment,
61
,
79
,
85
,
88
,
112
,
113
,
117
,
119
,
120
,
126
,
133
-
34
,
167
,
168
,
207
,
208
,
210
,
268

Epicurus,
77

epistemology, biblical,
49
,
125
-
26
,
169
-
70
,
188
-
90
,
192
,
197
-
99
,
214
-
16
,
223

epistemological sin,
34
-
35

equality and human rights,
224
-
26

Erickson, John,
93
-
96

evolution,
115
-
18
,
208
,
238
-
41
.
See
also Darwinism

evolutionary epistemology,
192
-
97
,
230

evolutionary psychology,
100
-
101

evolutionary religion,
239
-
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
-
58

feminist theology,
267

Ferry, Luc,
225
,
235
-
36

fine-tuning problem,
25
-
26

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler,
267

Flesh and Machines
(Brooks),
164

Fletcher, Joseph,
94

foolish, Greek word for,
163

forms, Platonic,
69
-
70

Foucault, Michel,
208

free will and freedom,
45
,
46
-
48
,
49
,
89
,
102
,
104
,
107
,
142
,
144
-
50
,
152
,
154
,
156
,
158
-
61
,
165
,
166
,
173
,
176
,
194
,
225
,
229
,
246
,
259
-
60

predestination and,
145
-
46

“free-loading” from Christianity,
49
,
50
,
190
,
192
,
220
-
41
,
257

free-will defense,
141

Freud, Sigmund,
51
,
55
,
180
,
186

Fromm, Erich,
51

futile, Greek word for,
163

G

Galileo,
262

Garcia, Robert,
266
,
268

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
-
25
,
28
,
30
,
31
-
32
,
38
-
39
,
134
,
170
,
172
,
180

known by undeniable experience,
46
-
47
,
110
-
11
,
142
-
43
,
146
,
149
-
69
,
172
-
73
,
176
,
181
,
208
-
9
,
224

as source of philosophies,
79
-
81

as test for truth claims,
46
-
48
,
51
,
103
-
4
,
142
-
44
,
148
-
69
,
173
,
189
-
90
,
209
,
222
-
24
,
230
-
31
,
241
,
256
-
57

genetic information,
26
-
27

Gilson, Étienne,
29
,
135

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
-
97
,
99
,
135
-
36
,
161
,
164

God’s-eye view,
80
,
86
,
119
,
125

Goldilocks dilemma,
26

Gould, Stephen Jay,
195
-
96

Gray, John,
135
,
193
,
229
,
237

Greek polytheism,
65
-
67

Greenstein, George,
26

Gutiérrez, Gustavo,
267
-
68

H

Habakkuk, prophet,
37
,
252

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

Hinduism,
64
,
127

historicism,
116
,
124
-
25
,
208

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

Hume, David,
73
,
76
,
223

Humphrey, Nicholas,
106

Huxley, Aldous,
135

I

idealism, philosophy of,

definition of,
82
-
83
,
167

Hegelian,
115
-
17

Kantian,
81
-
83

neo-Platonic,
114
-
15
,
130
,
213

Romantic,
112
-
15

identity politics,
117

idols and idolatry

community, idol of,
117
-
23
,
209

12

definition of,
42
-
43
,
85
-
86
,
256

as deification of something in creation,
35
,
42
-
44
,
61
,
82
-
83
,
83
-
85
,
113
,
115
-
16
,
135
,
137
,
150
,
187
,
256

as God substitutes,
35
-
37
,
61
-
62
,
79
-
81

good gifts of God as,
37
-
38

of the heart,
61
-
62

as human inventions,
124

identifying,
42
-
44
,
60
-
63

imagination, idol of,
83
-
85

matter, idol of,
43
,
45
,
46
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48
,
70
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72
,
104
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5
,
109
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11
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165
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67
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190
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92

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