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Is Reality Secular?

Is Reality Secular? Part 1

December 26, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV 1 Comment

Is reality secular? Is adequate knowledge secular? And is that something that has been established as a fact by thorough and unbiased inquiry? Is this something that today's secular universities thoroughly and freely discuss in a disciplined way? (11) Mary Poplin  wastes no time in establishing the centrality of Dallas Willard's questions to  Is Reality Secular? What is the nature of reality?  (InterVarsity Press, 2014).  Early in Chapter 1: Truth and Consequences, she  relates the story of a seminar in which she asks, … [Read more...] about Is Reality Secular? Part 1

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Is Reality Secular?

December 23, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

I am glad to call attention to this book by Mary Poplin of Claremont Graduate University.  Is Reality Secular? is a challenge, by an insider to the secularism that is now assumed, with no significant evaluation, to be the height of intellectual respectability and that dominates the most elevated and the most inclusive levels of higher education. From there it pervades professional, social and official life in our world, with effects that severely diminish human aspirations of the type that have traditionally been upheld … [Read more...] about Is Reality Secular?

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