By Any Other Name

by Abernathy, James G.; Weatherly, Jon A.

• ISBN13: 9781556352041
• ISBN10: 1556352042
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

Have you ever wondered . . . . . . what a worldview is, and why it's so important? . . . how liberal and conservative Christians both claim the Bible as their foundation? . . . why different worldviews attempt to solve the same problems in different ways? . . . how two people who formally espouse different worldviews can agree on so many issues? . . . why secularism is just as religious as Christianity? . . . why secularism has its own mythology? . . . why secularists want to silence Christianity in America's legislatures, courts, schools, and churches? . . . why education is nearly always offered as a solution to society's ills (and why it won't work)? . . . how to formulate positions on contemporary issues not directly mentioned in the Bible? . . . why Christians are often ineffective at influencing culture?Abernathy answers these questions (and many more) by examining the relationship between ideas and their real-world consequences. This foundational relationship is key to understanding secularism, to understanding why its attempts to solve society's problems produce disastrous real-world consequences, and how its ideas infiltrate the biblical principles of even the most committed Christians.Abernathy sifts through the deceptive language of secular orthodoxy and shows how secularism by any other name still has tragic real-world consequences. Ideologies such as humanism, postmodernism, and liberal Christianity are exposed as repackaged havens of a failed worldview. Seemingly well-intentioned notions such as progressive education, pacifist foreign policy, tolerance, and wealth redistribution are debunked as deceptive myths peddled by an impoverished faith.By Any Other Nameshatters the secular barrier erected to exclude Christianity from the marketplace of ideas and lays the groundwork for engaging a culture contaminated by secular mythology.

Author Biography

James G. Abernathy taught courses on worldview, apologetics, and ethics at Cincinnati Christian University, at The Potter's School

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The Battlefield
The Issue at Hand: What is the Real Issue?	p. 3
Connecting the Dots: All History is Natural History	p. 19
A Worldview by Any Other Name The Christian Left: Infiltrated Christianity	p. 38
Secular Gnosticism
Gnosticism: Ancient Humanism	p. 77
Secular Gnosticism: Analyzing Secular Mythology	p. 87
Closing Thoughts: So What Does Jesus Think about All This?	p. 129
Takeover
Worldview: Painting the Big Picture	p. 149
Education: Institutionalized Indoctrination	p. 212
The Judiciary: Circumventing the People	p. 238
Terrorism and War: Secular Foreign Policy	p. 259
Random Ideas: A Few Observations	p. 275
A Bit of Theology: Civil Government and Narnia's Ancient Magic	p. 301
Bibliography	p. 311
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