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Authors: Nancy Pearcey

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mind, idol of,
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83

personhood and,
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reason, idol of,
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reductionism, as consequence of,
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self-referential absurdity of,
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senses, idol of,
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testing of,
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49

unmasking of,
135
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36

The Illusion of Conscious Will
(Wegner),
107

image of God and image of an idol,
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imagination, idol of,
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85

impressionism,
260
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62

Islam,
129
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33

J

Jacobs, Alan,
84
,
201
,
204

Jeremiah, prophet,
29

John, the Baptist,
15
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16

Johnson, Thomas K.,
34
,
138
,
150
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224

Joshua,
35

just-war doctrine,
95

K

Kaiser, Christopher,
197

Kandinsky, Wassily,
263

Kant, Immanuel,
81
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83
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118
,
122
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159
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60

Kant’s Copernican revolution,
82

kardia
, Greek word for heart,
62

Kauffman, Stuart,
239

Keller, Timothy,
61

Kenny, Anthony,
83

kin altruism,
101

Kinnaman, David,
58

Kline, Morris,
198

knowledge, moral responsibility for,
33
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34

Koran
(that which is recited),
132

Koukl, Greg,
182

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L’Abri ministry, Switzerland,
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146
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47
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247

language games,
199
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200

Latour, Bruno,
206

“The Law of Life

(London),
259

leap of faith, secular,
155

Lennox, John,
196

Lentricchia, Frank,
205
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6

Letham, Robert,
131
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32

Lewis, C. S.,
22
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131
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191
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241
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Li Po,
127

liar’s paradox,
193

liberation theology,
267
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68

literary criticism, postmodern,
205
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6

literary naturalism,
259
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60

The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality
(Comte-Sponville),
236

logical positivism,
184
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85

London, Jack,
259

love

Christian view of,
243

reductionist view of,
100

Luther, Martin,
37
,
145
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46

Lynn, Barry,
253

Lyotard, Jean-François,
199
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200
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203

M

Mach, Ernst,
76

Malik, Kenan,
196

Mars Hill, Paul’s speech,
90
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91

Marx, Karl,
96

Marxism,
72
,
185
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86
,
205

Maslow, Abraham,
55

materialists and materialism

abstract art and,
263
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64

Christian response to,
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,
213
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definition of,
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eliminative materialism,
106

8

as idol,
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104
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165
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66

pantheism and,
128
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29

as philosophical family,
51
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52

physicalism and,
70
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71

reductionism and,
104
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5
,
122
,
146

as religion or faith,
71

self-referential absurdity of,
190
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92

mathematical order in nature,
198

The Matrix
(movie),
76

matter, idol of,
43
,
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5
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165
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66

maya
(illusion),
127

McGinn, Colin,
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160
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61

mechanistic worldview (world as machine),
45
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meditation, Eastern,
127

metanoia
, Greek word for repentance,
40

Middelmann, Udo,
132

Midgley, Mary,
227

Mill, John Stuart,
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76

Miłosz, Czesław,
181

mind (
nous
), Greek word for,
39
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40

mind, idol of,
81
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83
,
113
,
167

Mind and Cosmos
(Nagel),
230

Minsky, Marvin,
153
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54

“Missa Charles Darwin” (Brown),
238

missionary training, apologetics as,
250

Mitchell, Deborah,
141
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42

modernism,
79
,
124
,
210

Monet, Claude,
261

monotheism,
130

Moore, Lecrae,
272
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morality,
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100
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184

emotivism,
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relativism, moral,
19
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religions without morality,
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skepticism, moral,
100
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Moreland, J. P.,
141

multiculturalism,
117

mysticism, secular,
160
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61

N

Nagel, Thomas,
194
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229
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Nasr, Seyyed Hossein,
130

Native American religions,
67

naturalism and naturalistic,
26
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71
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156
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158
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192
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228
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259
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nature

as idol,
68

laws of,
95
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227
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mathematical order in,
198

Nazism,
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35

neo-orthodoxy,
266

neo-Platonism,
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neuroscience, reductionism and,
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New Atheists,
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Nietzsche, Friedrich,
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nirvana
(to become extinguished),
127

noetic effects of sin,
121

nous
, Greek word for mind,
39
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40

O

objective truth,
168
,
170

the one and the many,
210

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ontology,
212

origin of life,
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Origin of Species
(Darwin),
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origin of the universe,
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organic worldview, Romanticism,
112

Orwell, George,
152
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154

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paganism,
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pantheism,
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Parfit, Derek,
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Passmore, John,
116

Pavlov, Ivan,
51

Penner, Myron,
267

Percy, Walker,
113

performative contradiction,
200

personal, as philosophical term, definition of,
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144

personal beings and personhood, as evidence for a personal God,
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personal God, as explanation for personal beings,
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non-personal causes inadequate to explain personal beings,
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