IS THE WORLD RUNNING DOWN?
Other books by Gary North Marx5 Religion of Revolution, 1968 An Introduction to Christian Economics, 1973 Unconditional Surrena!q 1981 Successfid Investing in an Age of Envy, 1981 The Dominion Covenant: Genesis, 1982 Governrn.mt By Emergeruy, 1983 The Last Train Out, 1983 Backward, Christian Soldiers?, 1984 75 Bible Questions lbur Instructors Pray &u Won’t Ask, 1984 Coined Freedom: Gold in the Age of the Bureaucrats, 1984 Moses and Pharaoh: Dominion Religion V2ZSUS Power Religion, 1985 Negatrends, 1985 Conspiracy: A Biblical View, 1986
[email protected] Spirits: Occultism and New Age Humanism, 1986 Honest Moruy, 1986 Fighting Chance, 1986 [with Arthur Robinson] Dominion and Common Grace, 1987 Inherit the Earth, 1987 The Pirate Economy, 1987 Liberating Planet Earth, 1987 Healer of the Nations, 1987 The Scourge: AIDS and the Coming Bankrupt~, 1988 Tools of Dominion, 1988
Books edited by Gary North Foundations of Christian Scholarsh$, 1976 Tatics of Christian Resistance, 1983 The Theology of Christian Resistame, 1983 Editor, Journal of Christian Reconstruction (1974-1981)
IS THE WORLD RUNNING DOWN? Crisis in the Christian Worldview
Gary North
Institute for Christian Economics Tyler, Texas
Copyright 01988 by Gary North All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles. Published in Tyler, Texas by Institute for Christian Economics Distributed by Dominion Press 7112 Burns Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76118 Typesetting by Thoburn Press, Tyler, Texas Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-930464-13-3
This book is dedicated to Arthur Robinson who pushed me into an intellectual corner, thereby decreasing my intellectual entropy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 1 1. The Unnaturalness of Scientific Natural Law . . . . . . . . . 13 2. The Pessimism of the Scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 3. Entropy and Social Theory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 4. The Entropy Debate within Humanistic Science . . . . . . . 91 5. Christianity vs. Social Entropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...104 6. The Question of Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...117 7. Mysticism vs. Christianity.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...131 8. Dominion and Sanctification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...145 9. Resurrection and Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..175 APPENDIXA –The Disastrous Quest for Scientific Common Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...187 APPENDIX B–The End of Illusions: “Creationism’’in the Public schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...206 APPENDIXC –Comprehensive Redemption: A Theology for Social Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...219 APPENDIX D–Are Postmillennialists Accomplices of the New Age Movement?. . . . . . . . . . . . . ...257 APPENDIX E – The Division within Dispensationalism. . . . ..281 APPENDIX F – Time for a Change: Rifkin’s “New, Improved” Worldview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...305 SCRIPTURE INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...325 GENERAL INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...329
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PREFACE But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain