Lord of All: Developing a Christian World-and-Life View

321 Pages·2005·1.43 MB·English

by  D. James Kennedy

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CROSSWAY B OOKS
A MINISTRY OF
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WHEATON, ILLINOIS
Lord of All
Copyright © 2005 by D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe
Published by Crossway Books
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First printing, 2005
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To our wives,
ANNEKENNEDYANDKIRSTINEWCOMBE,
for their ceaseless encouragement and patience,
without which this book would never have been written.

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ONTENTS
Acknowledgments 9
Introduction: The Christian World-and-Life View 11
PART I: THE SPHERE OF THE WORLD
1 The Root of the Problem 23
2 “This Is My Amoeba’s World” 33
3 The Collapse of Evolution 47
4 A Noble Origin, a Noble Destiny 61
PART II: THE SPHERE OF HUMANITY
5 The Bible and Life 73
6 Lessons from the Nazis Regarding Human Life 85
7 Cloning and the Stem-Cell Research Debate 93
8 Suicide Is Not a Viable Option 103
PART III: THE SPHERE OF THE NATION
9 A Christian View of Politics 115
10 Christian Statesmanship 123
11 A Nation Built on Christian Principles 133
12 The Bible and the Economy 147
PART IV: THE SPHERE OF THE SCHOOL
13 A Teaching Religion 161
14 Who Stole the Truth? 173
15 The Humanists and Education 185
16 Violence in the Schoolyard 195
PART V: THE SPHERE OF THE CHURCH
17 The Bible and the Soul 205
18 The Old Lamplighter 217
19 Will the Church Forget? 225
20 The Fight for God’s Word 237
PART VI: THE SPHERE OF THE FAMILY
21 A Christian View of the Family 251
22 Christian Marriage 261
23 Christian Parenting 273
24 The Single Life: Heaven or Hell? 285
Conclusion: Where There Is No Vision 293
Notes 301
Index 314
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CKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Special thanks are due to a handful of people who helped make this book
possible. This includes:
Chip MacGregor of Alive Communications.
Lane Dennis and Marvin Padgett of Crossway Books.
Kirsti Newcombe, who helped edit several early versions of the
manuscript.
Nancy Britt, who helped edit a later version.
Mary Anne Bunker, my ever-efficient secretary.