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Abdalati, Hammudah, 240
absurdism, 14
aestheticism, 269
Age of Reason, 52
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
Arnold, Matthew, 1, 129-130, 220
Ash’ari, Abu Al-Hasan al-, 236
atheism, 48-49, 56, 58, 77, 105, 108-116, 120-126, 132-133, 134, 231, 269
Ayer, A. J., 63
Bacon, Francis (artist), 104
Barash, David P., 220
Barash, Nanelle, 220
Barrett, William, 61
Bavinck, J. H., 10
Beckett, Samuel, 14, 85-86, 90, 104-105
Beiner, Ronald, 217
Bellah, Robert, 171
Bergson, Henri, 176
Bernstein, Leonard, 269
Bertrand, J. Mark, x
Bhattacharya, Anupama, 165
Big Bang Theory, The, 283
bin Laden, Osama, 236
Blake, William, 170
Board, C. Stephen, xiv
Bogart, Humphrey, 269
Bohr, Niels, 91
Bricmont, Jean, 225
Brierly, John, 61
Broad, C. D., 176
Bronowski, J., 37
Brunner, Emil, 121
Bucke, Richard Maurice, 181-182
Buddha, 136, 148, 150-152, 162, 193
Buddhism, 136-138, 150, 152-153, 280
Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges, 61, 110
Cage, John, 104
Calvinism, 127
Camus, Albert, 4, 14, 103, 107-109, 113, 116-120, 123, 132-133, 210
Capon, Robert Farrar, 97
Capone, Al, 127
Carnell, Edward John, 121, 130
Cassirer, Ernst, 189
Castaneda, Carlos, 164-165, 170, 177-179, 183
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
Cioran, E. M., 95
Clapp, Rodney, xiv
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
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
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
Ferguson, Marilyn, 157, 173, 178, 182
Fish, Stanley, 219
Foucault, Michel, 205, 212, 215-217, 219, 228-229, 233
Franke, John, 226
Fredkin, Edward, 63
Freud, Sigmund, 101, 188, 212, 216, 219
Fuller, Buckminster, 39
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 5
Galilei, Galileo, 37
Geering, Lloyd, 132
Geertz, Clifford, 165
Ghulam Ahmad of Qadiyan, 260
Gibbon, Edward, 46
Gilson, Étienne, 53
Gnosticism, 158, 194, 198, 231
Gottschall, Jonathan, 221
Graham, W., 93
Greer, Robert, 227
Gregory, André, 167
Groothuis, Douglas, xiv, 157, 162-163, 227
Gurdjieff, George I., 180
Haldane, J. B. S., 93
Hampton, Charles, xiv
Hanbalite school, 236, 257-258
Haneef, Suzanne, 251
al-Hassan, 258
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 76-77, 80, 209
Heidegger, Martin, 108
Heinlein, Robert, 167
Heller, Joseph, 86
Hemingway, Ernest, 104-105, 269
Henry, Carl F. H., 226
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
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
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
individualism, 171
Islam (Islamic theism), xiii-xiv, 3, 16, 81, 233, 234-267, 269, 274, 277, 289
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
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
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
Lemley, Brad, 163
Lenin, Vladimir, 79
LeShan, Lawrence, 172-173, 176-177, 190-191
Lèvi-Strauss, Claude, 219
Lewis, C. S., xiii, 19, 44, 93-94, 136
Lilly, John, 156, 163-164, 169, 171-172, 177-184, 187-188, 192
Lindbeck, George A., 226
Locke, John, 38-39, 41-42, 56, 209
Lodge, Sir Oliver, 187
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
Mahdi, 260
Mahesh (Yogi), Maharishi, 137, 142, 166
Marcuse, Herbert, 128
Martel, Yann, 213
Martin, Richard C., 245
Masters, Robert, 163, 181, 189
Maugham, Somerset, 269
Max, D. T., 220
McCallum, Dennis, 222
McGrath, Alister, 228
Mecca, 237, 250, 258, 263, 266
Medawar, Peter, 38
Middleton, J. Richard, 226
Millet, Kate, 219
Mitchell, Joni, 173
Molière, Jean Baptiste, 6
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
Myocho, Zen master, 151
mysticism, 3, 156, 168-169, 181, 183, 196, 232
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
Nayef, prince of Saudi Arabia, 263
neo-Kharijite, 258
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
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
Oliver, Joan Duncan, 158
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
Platt, John, 67-68, 89, 112, 126
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
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.
Rorty, Richard, 191, 210, 212, 216-217, 229-230, 233
Rosen, Winifred, 162
Rosenfeld, Albert, 177
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
Seznec, Jean, 14
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
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
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
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
Upanishads, 137, 139-140, 142-145
Vanzant, Iyanla, 168
Veith, Gene Edward, Jr., 226-227
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
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, 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
Zaehner, R. C., 180
Zimmerman, Jens, 74
Zoroaster, 162