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Is Reality Secular? – Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews

Is Reality Secular? – Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews


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What is the nature of reality? At the root of our society's deepest political and cultural divisions are the conflicting principles of four global worldviews. While each of us holds to some version of one of these worldviews, we are often unconscious of their differences as well as their underlying assumptions. Mary Poplin argues that the ultimate test of a worldview, philosophy or ideology is whether it corresponds with reality. Since different perspectives conflict with each other, how do we make sense of the differences? And if a worldview system accurately reflects reality, what implications does that have for our thinking and living? In this wide-ranging and perceptive study, Poplin examines four major worldviews: naturalism, humanism, pantheism and Judeo-Christian theism. She explores the fundamental assumptions of each, pressing for limitations. Ultimately she puts each perspective to the test, asking, what if this worldview is true? If reality is secular, that means something for how we orient our lives. But if reality is not best explained by secular perspectives, that would mean something quite different. Consider for yourself what is the fundamental substance of reality.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Dallas Willard

Part 1: Is Reality Secular?
1 Truth and Consequences
2 Confessions of a Professor
3 Worldviews as Operating Systems of the Mind
4 Tracing History up to Now

Part 2: Material Naturalism
5 Everything Is a Thing
6 Science as the Only Truth
7 The Purposeless Universe Emerged from Nothing
8 No Miracles Allowed
9 The Ethics of Things upon Things
10 Countering God as Creator

Part 3: Secular Humanism
11 Man Makes Himself and His World
12 Radical Individual Freedom
13 Varieties of Secular Humanism
14 Principles of Secular and Christian Psychology
15 Finding Moral Truth in Human Dialogue
16 Exorcising Sin
17 Contesting Jesus as Divine

Part 4: Pantheism
18 Immanence - The Spirit Within Us
19 To Eliminate Suffering, Jettison Desire
20 Pantheism?s Many Faces
21 Western Pantheism - Spiritual, Not Religious
22 SpiritualTransactions in People, Nature and Nations
23 Contesting the Holy Spirit

Part 5: What If Judeo-Christianity Is True?
24 A Wider Rationality
25 The Triune God
26 Jesus, Perfect God/Man: Redeemer of Man and the World
27 Signposts of Reality

Acknowledgments
Notes
Name Index
Subject Index



About the Author :

Dallas Willard (1935–2013) was a renowned teacher, an acclaimed writer and one of our most brilliant Christian thinkers. He was as celebrated for his enduring writings on spiritual formation as he was for his scholarship, with a profound influencein the way he humbly mentored so many of today's leaders in the Christian faith. His books include The Divine Conspiracy (a Christianity Today Book of the Year), The Spirit of the Disciplines, Hearing God, Renovation of the Heart, and others.


Mary Poplin (PhD, University of Texas) is professor of education at Claremont Graduate University in California, where she has served as director of the teacher education program and dean of the School of Educational Studies. She is a frequent speaker at Veritas Forums and the author of Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service.



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"This is the best book I've read since 2002. . . . I recommend it highly to all church libraries." "Mary Poplin's well-documented, insightful book delivers far more than is promised by its subtitle." "This volume stands as proof for (religious) experience as a source of knowledge. Every Christian who wants to make sense of her or his faith needs to read this book. It is easily readable; although the topics are highly philosophical."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780830844067
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Inter-Varsity Press,US
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0830844066
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jan 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 526 gr


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