Authors: Randy Alcorn
335 W. Graham Scroggie,
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336 A. W. Tozer,
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337 C. S. Lewis,
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338 Ibid., 180.
339 Variously attributed to Henry Scott Holland and Henry Van Dyke; source uncertain.
340 C. S. Lewis,
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341 Calvin Miller,
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CHAPTER 46
ANTICIPATING THE GREAT ADVENTURE
342 Jack MacArthur,
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343 C. S. Lewis,
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344 Sir James M. Barrie,
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in
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345 Paul Helm,
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346 C. S. Lewis,
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APPENDIX A
CHRISTOPLATONISM'S FALSE ASSUMPTIONS
347 Luciano Floridi and Gian Paolo Terravecchia, eds.,
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348 Plato,
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349 Arthur E. Travis,
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350 James M. Campbell,
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351 John A. Sarkett, "How Did We Lose the Rest of the Story?" chap. 9 in
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352 Leon Morris,
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353 Leland Ryken, "The Rhetoric of Transcendence," in Wayne Martindale,
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354 C. S. Lewis,
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355 Paul Marshall with Lela Gilbert,
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356 Anthony A. Hoekema,
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357 Wayne Grudem,
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APPENDIX B
LITERAL A N D FIGURATIVE INTERPRETATION
358 Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang,
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359 Ibid., 82-83.
360 Ibid., 84.
361 Ibid., 89.
362 Randy Alcorn, "Additional Thoughts on the Millennium," Eternal Perspective Ministries,
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363 John Gilmore,
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