Endnotes
1 Eric Fromm, Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962), 3–11.
2 Quoted in Neil Postman, “Science and the Story That We Need,” First Things 69 (January 1997): 29.
3 Ibid., 30.
4 For an excellent study of the concept of a worldview see David K. Naugle, Worldview: The History of a Concept (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002).
5 Quoted in Richard Symonds, “The South Stoke Festival of Thought,” Philosophy Pathways 32 (2002), (accessed October 14, 2007).
6 Naugle, Worldview: The History of a Concept, 58–59.
7 Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (trans. Brian Massumi Geoff Bennington; Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1984).
8 William H. Halverson, A Concise Introduction to Philosophy (4th ed.; Boston: McGraw Hill, 1981), 414–15.
9 Ibid., 9–10 (his emphases).
10 John Warwick Montgomery, The Suicide of Christian Theology (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1970), 122.
11 Frank Morison, Who Moved the Stone? (London: Faber and Faber, 1944).
12 According to J. Gresham Machen, “The Bible offers news—not reflection on the old, but tidings of something new; not something that can be deduced or something that can be discovered, but something that has happened; not philosophy, but history; not exhortation, but a gospel” (“History and Faith,” available at http://journals.ptsem.edu/id/BR1915133/dmd002 [accessed October 23, 2013]).
13 Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (London: Bantam Press, 1988).
14 Blaise Pascal, Pensées (trans. A. J. Krailsheimer; Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1972), 34 (emphasis added).
15 C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (London: Collins, 1958), 118.
16 Quoted in Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1987), 93 (emphasis his).
17 Quoted in Paul Bloom, “Is God an Accident?” Atlantic Monthly 296/5 (December 2005): 105.
18 Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (vol. 2; trans. Thomas P. Whitney; New York: Harper & Row, 1974), 615.
19 Quoted in “Bertrand Arthur William Russell,” (accessed September 6, 2007).
20 Pascal, Pensées, 64.
21 Martin Buber, Between Man and Man (London: Fontana, 1961), 157.
22 Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer, eds., Bioethics: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), 4.
23 Harvey Cox, “The Warring Visions of the Religious Right,” Atlantic Monthly (November 1995): 59–68.
24 Augustine, Confessions (trans. R.S. Pine-Coffin; Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1977), 21.
25 Augustine, “De Doctrina Christiana,” in Augustine on Education (Chicago: Henry Regner, 1969), 359.
26 Émile Cailliet, Journey into Light (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1968), 16. Cailliet illustrates the conflict between naturalism and non-naturalism that Halverson addresses. Cailliet describes his early education as “naturalistic to the core” (11).
27 Fromm argues that a religion consists not only in a frame of reference but also an object of devotion (Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion [New Haven: Yale University, 1970], 21).
28 Roger Scruton, Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from Life (New York: Continuum, 2006), 1.
29 Quoted in Thomas Riggins, “Remembering Richard Rorty 1931–2007,” (accessed October 22, 2013).
30 Frederick Buechner, “The Good Book as a Good Book,” in The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992), 44.
31 Bloom, “Is God an Accident?” 110–11.
32 Francis S. Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (New York: Free Press, 2007).
33 Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006). Also see the spirited reply by Alister E. McGrath and Joanna C. McGrath, The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine (Downers Grove: IVP, 2007).
34 Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (2d ed.; Oxford: Oxford University, 1989), 2.
35 Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals (London: Jonathan Cape, 1976), 19. For a critique of Singer’s views see Gordon R. Preece, ed., Rethinking Peter Singer: A Christian Critique (Downers Grove: IVP, 2002).
36 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, part 1a, question 74.
37 Elton Trueblood, A Place to Stand (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), 14–15. In fact Trueblood had been arguing this thesis from the 1940s: see his The Predicament of Modern Man (New York: Harper & Row, 1944), 59–60.
38 Postman, “Science and the Story That We Need,” 31.
39 Isaiah Berlin, The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas, ed. Henry Hardy (New York: Knopf, 1991). Berlin is indebted to Kant for the crooked timber image.
40 Frank Furedi, “Making a Virtue of Vice,” The Spectator (January 12, 2002); repr., “The Seven Deadly Sins,” The Weekend Australian (February 2–3, 2002): 26.
41 Ibid., 27.
42 Pascal, Pensées, 82.
43 Ibid., 76.
44 Daniel L. Migliore, Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology (2d ed.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004), 139.
45 Pascal, Pensées, 76.
46 Quoted in Roy Clements, Masterplan: How God Makes Sense of Our World (Leicester: IVP, 1994), 43–44.
47 Quoted in Rex Warner, The Greek Philosophers (New York: Mentor, 1962), 24.
48 Pascal, Pensées, 103.
49 Dorothy L. Sayers, The Greatest Drama Ever Staged (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), 9–10.
50 Ibid., 43.
51 N. J. Dawood, The Koran (2d ed.; Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1980), Sura: “Women,” 4.158. 382–83.
52 William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 4, scene 1, lines 36–37.
53 Martin Luther, “The Freedom of the Christian Man,” in Martin Luther: Selections from His Writings, ed. John Dillenberger (Garden City: Doubleday Anchor, 1961), 60.
54 Quoted in E. M. B. Green, 2 Peter and Jude (London: IVP, 1974), 139. I am indebted to Green for these examples, but I have modernized the English.
55 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 5, scene 5, lines 19–28 (emphasis added).
56 Ellen Ullmann, “Programming the Post-Human: Computer Science Redefines ‘Life,’” Harper’s Magazine (October 2002): 60–70.
57 See David H. Wallace, “Oscar Cullmann,” in Creative Minds in Contemporary Theology: A Guidebook to the Principal Teachings of Karl Barth, G. C. Berkouwer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Emil Brunner, Rudolf Bultmann, Oscar Cullmann, James Denney, C. H. Dodd., Herman Dooyeweerd, P. T. Forsyth, Charles Gore, Reinhold Niebuhr, Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, and Paul Tillich, ed. Philip Edgcumbe Hughes (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1973), 169.
58 Joseph F. Kett, E. D. Hirsch Jr., James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (completely revised and updated ed.; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002), 224. The term “D-day” is used by the military to refer to the day when a strategic initiative is to begin. See Rebecca N. Ferguson, The Handy History Answer Book (Canton: Visible Ink, 2000), 158.
59 V-E stands for Victory in Europe.
60 Lesslie Newbigin, The Finality of Christ (Richmond: John Knox, 1969), 65–67.
61 See Leland Ryken, The Literature of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980), 22–23.
62 Quoted in E. L. Mascall, The Christian Universe (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1967), 55.
63 Bertrand Russell, “A Free Man’s Worship,” (accessed October 22, 2013; emphasis added).
64 H. J. Blackham, Objections to Humanism (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963), 105.
65 Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University, 1978), 25–32.
66 Scruton, Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from Life, 234.
67 Quoted in Henry S. Bettenson, ed., Documents of the Christian Church (2d ed.; London: Oxford University, 1967), 3.
68 Ignatius of Antioch, “Letter to the Magnesians,” in Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers, ed. Maxwell Staniforth (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1972), 90.
69 Quoted in Peter Henry, “Introduction and Brief Review Some Years Ago,” (accessed October 14, 2007).
70 Gregory A. Clark, “The Nature of Conversion: How the Rhetoric of Worldview Philosophy Can Betray Evangelicals,” in Evangelicals and Liberals in Conversation, ed. Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis Okholm (Downers Grove: IVP, 1996), 218.