INDEX

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Abdalati, Hammudah, 240

absurdism, 14

Adams, Douglas, 85-86, 105

aestheticism, 269

Age of Reason, 52

agnosticism, 48, 58, 242, 280

Ahmadiyya, 260

Albee, Edward, 14

Ali ben Talib, 258

All in the Family, 283

Allen, Diogenes, 226

Anderson, Tawa J., x

animism, 168-170, 186, 197-198, 265, 268

apatheism, 58

Aristotle, 37, 48-49, 65

Arnold, Matthew, 1, 129-130, 220

Ash’ari, Abu Al-Hasan al-, 236

Ash’arite, 236, 243, 246

atheism, 48-49, 56, 58, 77, 105, 108-116, 120-126, 132-133, 134, 231, 269

Augustine, 4, 22

Ayer, A. J., 63

Bacon, Francis (artist), 104

Bacon, Francis, 37, 215

Barash, David P., 220

Barash, Nanelle, 220

Barrett, William, 61

Barth, Karl, 121, 131-132

Baudelaire, Charles, 44, 119

Bavinck, J. H., 10

Beckett, Samuel, 14, 85-86, 90, 104-105

Beiner, Ronald, 217

Bellah, Robert, 171

Bergman, Ingmar, 100, 104

Bergson, Henri, 176

Bernstein, Leonard, 269

Bertrand, J. Mark, x

Bhattacharya, Anupama, 165

Big Bang Theory, The, 283

bin Laden, Osama, 236

Blackham, H. J., 120-121

Blake, William, 170

Bloom, Allan, 69, 97, 105

Board, C. Stephen, xiv

Bogart, Humphrey, 269

Bohr, Niels, 91

Bréhier, Émile, 42, 45, 59-60

Bricmont, Jean, 225

Brierly, John, 61

Broad, C. D., 176

Bronowski, J., 37

Brunner, Emil, 121

Bube, Richard H., xiv, 74, 91

Buber, Martin, 124, 126-127

Bucke, Richard Maurice, 181-182

Buddha, 136, 148, 150-152, 162, 193

Buddhism, 136-138, 150, 152-153, 280

Bultmann, Rudolf, 130-131

Buescher, John B., 136, 154

Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges, 61, 110

Cage, John, 104

Calvin, John, 4, 74, 130

Calvinism, 127

Camus, Albert, 4, 14, 103, 107-109, 113, 116-120, 123, 132-133, 210

capitalism, 78, 80, 234

Capon, Robert Farrar, 97

Capone, Al, 127

Capra, Fritjof, 157, 165, 169

Carnell, Edward John, 121, 130

Cassirer, Ernst, 189

Castaneda, Carlos, 164-165, 170, 177-179, 183

Chapman, Colin, xiv, 262, 264

Chesterton, G. K., 29

Chopra, Deepak, 166, 168, 173, 177, 182-183, 193-195

Christian humanism, 74

Christian Research Institute, 157

Christian theism, 12-34, 35, 37, 41, 44, 46-48, 52, 65, 67, 71, 81, 122, 131, 133, 155, 198, 206, 235-237, 240, 247, 274-276, 279, 287-288

Churchland, Patricia Smith, 208

Churchland, Paul M., 208, 281

Cioran, E. M., 95

Clapp, Rodney, xiv

Clarke, Arthur C., 82, 167

Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 159

Cohen, Andrew, 161

conceptual relativism, 185, 187-190, 192, 202, 210, 270

Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de, 46

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 37

Copleston, Frederick, 38, 209

Corduan, Winfried, xii-xv, 138, 234

Crane, Stephen, 1-3, 84, 96, 102

critical realism, 224

Crossan, John Dominic, 131

cummings, e. e., 5

Dalai Lama, 136

Darwin, Charles, 70-72, 82, 93-94, 220

Dasgupta, Surendranath, 137

Daston, Lorraine, 280

Davies, Paul, 48

Dawkins, Richard, 49, 72, 99, 279, 281

Deddo, Gary, xiv

deism, xii, xv, 3, 35-54, 55-57, 59, 234, 269, 271, 273, 277, 287-288

De Mille, Richard, 165

Dennett, Daniel, 68, 70, 98, 279, 281

Denny, Frederick Mathewson, 244

Denton, Melinda Lundquist, 51

Derrida, Jacques, 205, 209, 217, 219-220, 233

Descartes, René, 56-57, 61, 206, 208-210, 227, 230

Dettmar, Kevin J. H., 218

D’Holbach, Baron, 68

Dick, Philip K., 167

Dick Van Dyke Show, The, 282-283

Disney, Walt, 102

Donald, Merlin, 281-282

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 113-114, 116

Duchamp, Marcel, 85

Dulles, Avery, Cardinal, 52-53

Eagleton, Terry, 224

Eckhart, Meister, 179

Einstein, Albert, 47, 89, 92, 98, 172

Eliot, T. S., 5

Ellis, John M., 220

Engels, Friedrich, 75

Englund, Harold, 125

Enlightenment, the, 51-52, 81, 96, 207-208, 219, 288

Erasmus, Desiderius, 74

Esposito, John L., 243, 249-250

Esslin, Martin, 14

Evans, C. Stephen, xiv

evolution, 7, 9, 60, 62, 65, 70-73, 82, 87, 90, 143, 160-161, 169, 184, 195-196, 216, 220, 222, 278, 282, 288

Ewer, William, 31

existentialism, 3, 103, 107-133, 134-135, 171, 206, 215-217, 234, 268-269, 273, 287

Fahd, king of Saudi Arabia, 263

Fairbridge, Rhodes W., 60

al Faruqi, Isam’il Ragi, 239, 242, 252

Fénelon, François, 40-41

Ferguson, Marilyn, 157, 173, 178, 182

Feuerbach, Ludwig, 76-77

Fish, Stanley, 219

Flew, Antony, 48-49

Foucault, Michel, 205, 212, 215-217, 219, 228-229, 233

Franke, John, 226

Franklin, Benjamin, 38-39, 46

Fredkin, Edward, 63

French Revolution, 47, 78

Freud, Sigmund, 101, 188, 212, 216, 219

Fuller, Buckminster, 39

fundamentalism, 232, 258

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 5

Galilei, Galileo, 37

Geering, Lloyd, 132

Geertz, Clifford, 165

Ghulam Ahmad of Qadiyan, 260

Gibbon, Edward, 46

Giddens, Anthony, 204, 207

Gilson, Étienne, 53

Gnostic texts, 162, 194

Gnosticism, 158, 194, 198, 231

Gottschall, Jonathan, 221

Govinda, 147-150

Graham, W., 93

Greer, Robert, 227

Gregory, André, 167

Grene, Marjorie, 126-128

Grenz, Stanley, 216, 226

Grof, Stanislav, 163, 184

Groothuis, Douglas, xiv, 157, 162-163, 227

Guinness, Os, xiv, 136, 168

Gurdjieff, George I., 180

Hadith, 236, 257, 261, 289

Haldane, J. B. S., 93

Hampton, Charles, xiv

Hanbalite school, 236, 257-258

Haneef, Suzanne, 251

Harris, Sam, 279, 281

al-Hassan, 258

Hassan, Ihab, 205, 231

Havel, Václav, 49-50, 231

Hawking, Stephen, 48, 59, 70

hedonism, 153, 269

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 76-77, 80, 209

Heidegger, Martin, 108

Heinlein, Robert, 167

Heisenberg, Werner, 86, 91

Heller, Joseph, 86

Hemingway, Ernest, 104-105, 269

Henry, Carl F. H., 226

Herrick, James A., 157-158

Hesse, Hermann, 134, 137, 145, 147-148, 150, 183, 269

Hinduism, 136, 137, 148, 150, 152-153, 280

Hitchens, Christopher, 279, 281

Holmes, Arthur F., xii

Homer, 212-213

Hoover, James, ix-x, xi-xv

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 12, 34, 268, 275

Horgan, John, 231

Houston, Jean, 159-163, 173, 181

humanism, 60, 66, 73-76, 231, 280. See also Chrisian humanism; secular humanism

Humanist Manifestos, 60-64, 66-67, 74-75

Hume, David, 46, 57, 209

al-Hussein, 258

Huxley, Aldous, 163, 175-179, 182-183, 186-187

Huxley, Julian, 62

Huxley, Laura Archera, 187

Huxley, T. H., 82

Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad, 236

Ibn-Hanbal, 236

Ichazo, Oscar, 173, 184, 191

individualism, 171

Ionesco, Eugène, 14, 86

Islam (Islamic theism), xiii-xiv, 3, 16, 81, 233, 234-267, 269, 274, 277, 289

Jaki, Stanley, 91-92, 96, 98

James, William, 163, 181

Jefferson, Thomas, 45-47

Jenkins, Keith, 223, 229

Jennings, Timothy R., 283

Jesus, x, 7, 17, 25-26, 28, 30-31, 33-34, 39, 42, 44-46, 60, 66-67, 121, 129-132, 149, 154, 157, 162, 173, 193-195, 199-200, 212, 237, 245, 253-254, 260, 274, 284-285

Jobling, David, 60

Johnson, Luke Timothy, 131

Johnson, Stuart D., 58

Joyce, James, 269

Jung, Carl G., 163, 216

Kafka, Franz, 86, 99-100, 104-105, 121, 130

Kant, Immanuel, xii, 4, 127, 209

Keen, Sam, 157, 173, 181, 184, 191

Kepler, Johannes, 37

Kierkegaard, Søren, 108, 121, 128-128, 132

Kitta, 152

Klassen, Norman, 74

Klimo, Jon, 164, 177, 191

Krupnick, Mark, 219

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, 184

Kubrick, Stanley, 167

Kurtz, Paul, 60

La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 56-57, 59, 61, 66-67

Laing, R. D., 192

Leary, Timothy, 162-163

Lemley, Brad, 163

Lenin, Vladimir, 79

Leonard, George, 161, 173

LeShan, Lawrence, 172-173, 176-177, 190-191

Lèvi-Strauss, Claude, 219

Lewis, C. S., xiii, 19, 44, 93-94, 136

Lilla, Mark, 205, 217, 230

Lilly, John, 156, 163-164, 169, 171-172, 177-184, 187-188, 192

Lindbeck, George A., 226

Lippmann, Walter, 68-69

Locke, John, 38-39, 41-42, 56, 209

Lodge, Sir Oliver, 187

Lovelock, J. E., 165-166

Lowrie, Walter, 126

Lucas, George, 167

Lyotard, Jean-François, 205, 214, 218-219, 224, 227

MacIntyre, Alasdair, 128

MacLaine, Shirley, 48, 159, 161, 167, 172-174, 177, 179, 181-185, 187, 193, 196

Madonna, 173

Magee, Bryan, 231, 281-282

Mahdi, 260

Mahesh (Yogi), Maharishi, 137, 142, 166

Marcuse, Herbert, 128

Martel, Yann, 213

Martin, Richard C., 245

Marx, Karl, 75-81, 83, 219

Marxism, xiv, 85-81, 83

Mascaró, Juan, 145, 150

Maslow, Abraham, 163, 181

Masters, Robert, 163, 181, 189

Maugham, Somerset, 269

Max, D. T., 220

McCallum, Dennis, 222

McCracken, Samuel, 201-202

McGrath, Alister, 228

Mecca, 237, 250, 258, 263, 266

Medawar, Peter, 38

Middleton, J. Richard, 226

Millet, Kate, 219

Milton, John, xiii, 36, 74

Mitchell, Joni, 173

Molière, Jean Baptiste, 6

Monod, Jacques, 72, 90-92

Moody, Raymond J., Jr., 184

Moucarry, Chawkat, xiv

Muhammad, 234, 237, 243, 250, 253-254, 257-258, 260, 263

Mumma, Howard, 120

Murad, Mahmoud, 246

Mu’tazilites, 243, 246, 264

Myocho, Zen master, 151

mysticism, 3, 156, 168-169, 181, 183, 196, 232

Nagel, Ernest, 60, 62-63

National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 279-280

naturalism, 3, 35, 38, 41, 55-83, 86-87, 92-97, 99, 102, 108-111, 134-135, 142, 156, 160, 164, 168-169, 171, 190, 196-197, 206, 208, 217, 227, 232-234, 269, 271-274, 277, 279-280, 287-289

Naugle, David, xii, xv

Nayef, prince of Saudi Arabia, 263

neo-Kharijite, 258

neo-orthodoxy, 121, 130-131

New Age, xi, 3, 48, 156-202, 209, 221, 232, 269-271, 277, 287-289

new consciousness, xi, 3, 156, 158-159, 165, 168, 202

Newman, Margaret A., 174

Niebuhr, Reinhold, 121, 130

Nielsen, Kai, 230-231

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 4, 87-88, 97, 100, 105, 108, 130, 203-204, 206-207, 209-211, 216, 230-231, 233

nihilism, 3, 10, 14, 41, 82, 84-106, 107-108, 110, 113, 120-121, 130, 132-135, 168, 191, 196, 201, 268, 270, 274, 277, 287

Oates, Joyce Carol, 165

Oden, Thomas, 226-227

Oliver, Joan Duncan, 158

Olson, Carl, 193-194

Olthuis, James H., 4-5

Paine, Thomas, 39, 47

Paley, William, 56-57

panentheism, 48

pantheism, 48, 73, 136, 138, 144, 146, 155, 168, 287, 289

Paramahamsa, Sri Ramakrishna, 136, 139, 141, 146

Pascal, Blaise, 22

Pater, Walter, 269

Paul, apostle, 4, 24, 28, 30, 92, 162, 200, 256

Pauli, W., 91

Peraino, Carl, 87

Picasso, Pablo, 269

Pinter, Harold, 14

Plantinga, Alvin, 93

Plato, 4, 36, 212

Platt, John, 67-68, 89, 112, 126

pluralism, xi, 204

Pollard, Nick, 99

Pope, Alexander, 35, 42-46, 53, 196

postmodernism, xi-xii, 3, 52, 65, 82, 108, 173, 191, 202, 203-233, 277, 287

Potthapada Sutta, 152

Protagoras, 23

al-Qaeda, 235-236

Quine, Willard Van Orman, 212-213

Radhakrishnan, Sarvapalli, 137

Ramm, Bernard, 74

Reformation, the, 226

Reimarus, H. S., 46

reincarnation, 9, 29, 32, 146, 148, 185, 289

relativism, xi, 98, 106, 116, 187-190, 205, 210, 213, 217, 270. See also conceptual relativism.

Renan, Ernest, 129, 131

Rorty, Richard, 191, 210, 212, 216-217, 229-230, 233

Rosen, Winifred, 162

Rosenfeld, Albert, 177

Roszak, Theodore, 164, 170

Russell, Bertrand, 63-64, 190, 230-231

Sagan, Carl, 57-58, 73, 230-231, 281

Said, Edward, 211

Salafi, 258

Sanborn, Sara, 39

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 4, 14, 107-112, 114-116, 119, 132, 210, 215

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 219

Schaeffer, Francis A., 93, 128

scientism, 58

Schrödinger, Erwin, 191

Scotus, Duns, 128

secular humanism, 60, 73-76

Seznec, Jean, 14

Shakespeare, William, 14, 74

Shankara, 137

Shi’ite Islam, 160

Showalter, Elaine, 219

Siddhartha, 134, 137, 145-150, 183

Sidney, Sir Philip, 22

Simpson, George Gaylord, 67-68, 72, 81-82

Skinner, B. F., 67-68, 90, 112, 197, 272

Smith, Christian, 51

Smith, James K. A., 226

Socrates, 102, 204

Sokal, Alan, 190, 225, 232

Spangler, David, 173

Spenser, Edmund, 74

Spielberg, Steven, 167

Stavans, Ilan, 220

Stenger, Victor J., 190

Stevens, Bonny Klomp, 219

Stevens, Wallace, 269

Stewart, Larry L., 219

Strauss, D. F., 129

Sufism, 241, 264

Sunni, 243, 247, 257

Suzuki, D. T., 136, 152

syncretism, xi, 136, 265

Synnestvedt, Dan, xiv-xv, 46

Taimni, I. K., 180

Taliban, 235-236, 258, 262, 267

Tart, Charles, 191

Taylor, Charles, 6, 35, 74, 153, 229

Taylor, Eugene, 163

Taylor, Mark C., 226

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 3

Thaxton, Charles, 37

theism, Christian. See Christian theism.

Thielicke, Helmut, 23, 103, 191, 201

Thomas Aquinas, 4, 25, 208

Thomas, Lewis, 165-166

Thompson, Keith, 165

Thompson, William Irwin, 164, 169, 173, 176, 182, 196-197

Toland, John, 46

Tolle, Eckhart, 168

Transcendental Meditation, 137, 155, 156, 166

transhumanism, 278

Trevethan, Thomas, xiv

Turkle, Sherry, 61-62

Upanishads, 137, 139-140, 142-145

Updike, John, 55, 64

Vanzant, Iyanla, 168

Veith, Gene Edward, Jr., 226-227

Vivekananda, Swami, 136, 139

Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet, 38

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 86, 101, 105

Wahhabism, 236

Walsh, Brian, 226

Watson, Peter, 231

Watts, Alan, 136

Weber, Max, 97

Weil, Andrew, 162-163, 166, 169, 173, 180-181, 191

Weinberg, Steven, 190

Wellhausen, Julius, 129

Wells, David F., 226

Westminster Confession, 15, 17

Westminster Shorter Catechism, 32-33

Westphal, Merold, 226-227

Whitehead, Alfred North, 56-57

Whorf, Benjamin, 189

Wilber, Ken, 157, 161-162, 164, 174, 176-177, 181-182, 191, 197, 200

Williams, Bernard, 230

Williams, Jeffrey J., 221

Williamson, Marianne, 168

Wilson, E. O., 220, 231-232

Wilson, James Q., 68

Wilson, Woodrow, 164

Winfrey, Oprah, 168

Witherington, Ben, 131

Woltjer, Lodewijk, 70

Woodward, Bob, 159

Woodward, Thomas, 71

World War I, 108

World War II, 284

worldview, defined, xi-xv

Wright, N. T. (Tom), 131, 194, 224

Wright, Robert, 48

Yandell, Keith, xiv, 103, 137, 271

Yusuf Ali, 237-238, 259-260

Zaehner, R. C., 180

Zen, 136, 151-153, 174, 181

Zimmerman, Jens, 74

Zoroaster, 162

Zukav, Gary, 160, 165, 168-169