cohort, 185n complementarity, gender, 201 Confucius, 98 consumerism, 202 continental divide between human and divine wisdom, 12, 146–47 conversion. See regeneration Council of Nicaea, 197 courage, 110, 199 cross, continental divide between human and divine wisdom, 12, 146–47 crucial role of thinking in saving faith, 19 culture, 16, 28, 109, 114–15, 119–20, 172, 186, 190, 200 cutting wood for the fire, 164–65 danger of poverty, 186–87 danger of pride, 185–86 deep help from a dead friend, 33–37 deferred gratification, 47–48 Denney, James, 183 Dennis, Lane, 211 Descartes, Renè, 108 Desiring God, 186 Dillenberger, John, 26n Dinky Town, 44 diversity, ethnic, 202 divine wisdom decreed that human wisdom would not find him, 144–45 divorce, 201 do unto authors, 45 education, not same as schooling, 48 Edwards, Jonathan, 18, 32, 33–37, 74, 76n9, 78, 79, 169, 188–89 egalitarianim, 201 Einstein, Albert, 194–95 either-or thinking, 15, 31, 64–65, 179 Elder Affirmation of Faith, 199, 202 election, divine, 161, 164 emotionalism, 37, 168 General Index 213 enflamed to preach by Romans 9, 27 enjoy the word of God, 183–84 ethnocentrism, 202 evangelical Christians, 18, 28–29, 110, 121, 124, 173–74, 184 evangelical pragmatism, 17 evangelical suspicion of education, 28 evangelicalism, 174 faith as peculiarly receiving grace, 70–71 faith receives Jesus, 71 faith, uniquely receiving grace, 69–71 Fee, Gordon, 158 feminism, 201 fiery thinking, not formal education, 127–28 Finally Alive, 77n, 169n1 Finney, Charles, 121 Free University of Amsterdam, 187 fruitful crutch, 50–51 Fuller, Andrew, 70–71 Fuller, Daniel, 205 fundamentalism, 29, 171 game professors play, 108–109 Geldenhuys, Norval, 154 glory of Christ, really there, 75; seen in the gospel, 74; seen through the facts of the gospel, 75–76; selfauthenticating, 75–76 God is most glorified in us . . . , 189, 203 God, 100 percent for us in Jesus, 203; gift of as ground of our effort, 65; gladness of all my joys, 89–90; hiddeness of and happiness of his people, 153; is most glorified in us . . . , 189, 203; Jesus as fullest revelation of, 80, 90–91, 137; not loved if Jesus not worshiped, 90–91; opposes humans finding him through their own wisdom, 148–49; our supreme pleasure, 87; rejoices to hide from
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