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Predestination
Pregnancy, illegitimate
Premarital sex
Presbyterian Church of America
Preservation of the saints, doctrine of
Pride, Mary
books by
Princeton University
Private life, vs. public life, of religious leaders
Pro-choice advocates
and abortion, misuse of
See also Antiabortion movement
Progressives
“Pro-life” movement. See Antiabortion movement
Public life, vs. private life, of religious leaders
Public opinion, on abortion
Public schools, rejection of
Punishment
physical
of women
Puritan correctness
Puritan heritage
Purity regulations
Quiverfull Movement
Rape
Ratzinger, Joseph (cardinal)
Reagan, Ronald
and antiabortion book
and antiabortion movement
Reconstructionism (aka Theonomism)
impact of
and Islamic law, similarities between
mission of
origins of
and women
worldview of
Reconstructionist movement
leaders of(see also Chilton, David; North, Gary; Rushdoony, Rousas)
and patriarchy movement
Reconstructionists
and Bible, old vs. new testaments
and biblical law
extremism of
and humanity, lack of
influence of
“inside” theological/political code of
and politics
and Sermon on the Mount, version of
Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod
Regnery, Henry
Regnery Gateway Publishers
Rekers, George
Religion
and human intervention
vs. God
Religious leaders
children of
and politics
and sex scandals
Religious Right
agenda of
and Republican Party
Religious Right movement
Republican Party
and abortion, misuse of
and antiabortion movement
and corporate America
and Israel
and Religious Right
“Respecter of persons,”
Revelation
Rich, Frank
Ridge, Tom
Robertson, Pat
and Haitians, defaming of
Robinson, Gene
Rochester, MN
Rockefeller, Mrs. David
Rockefeller, Nelson A.
Roe v. Wade
criticism of
politicization of
reversal of
and U.S. Supreme Court
See also Abortion
Roman Catholic Church
and art
and child sexual abuse
and family planning
and graven images
and homosexuality
and idols
and natural law
sexual dysfunction in
Roman Catholics
Roosevelt, Franklin
Roosevelt, Kermit
Rove, Karl
Rudolph, Eric
Rushdoony, Rousas
and biblical law
and biblical law, imposition of
and secularism
Russell, Esther Rachel
Rutherford Institute
Salter, Mark
Salvation
Salvi, John
Same-sex marriage. See also Gay marriage
Sanford, Mark
Satan
“Saved,”
Schaeffer, Debby (sister)
Schaeffer, Edith (mother)
and “almost-affair,”
ancestors of
and artistic types
as author
compassion and decency of
and continuity
creative side of
and creativity
cult of
and dancing career
and daughter-in-law
double life of
energy/strength of
extroverted sexuality of
as grandmother
and husband/wife relationship
and indoctrination by missionary parents
and Jews
and miscarriage
as missionary, in Switzerland (see also L’Abri Fellowship ministry)
missionary parents of
and monogamy
and mother/son relationship
in old age
physical appearance of
as “respecter of persons,”
and scripture, interpretation of
and scripture, selective application of
and sex education
spiritual superiority of
and spousal abuse
and Talks for Girls
and “The Wife’s Method,”
wisdom of
as writer
Schaeffer, Francis (father)
and antiabortion movement
as author
burial of
children’s fear of
death of
and documentary films
and female temptation
as hero to Religious Right
illness of
as missionary in Switzerland (see also L’Abri Fellowship ministry)
and National Prayer Breakfast
as pastor, of small churches
and Republican Party
as screaming preacher
as seminary student
as spiritual inferior
spousal abuse by
violent moods of
“weaknesses” of
and wife/husband relationship
as writer
as youth
Schaeffer, Francis (son)
Schaeffer, Frank
and “almost-affair,”
and antiabortion crusade
as artist
as author
documentary films of
dyslexia of
early schooling of
and family, advice on
and father, fear of
as father
as filmmaker
as grandfather
homeschool experience of
as literary agent
and marriage, advice on
and Mayo Clinic checkup
and mother/son relationship
outside influences on
and polio/leg brace
siblings of
and Switzerland, early life in
as teenager
and unsolicited advice
and wife/husband relationship
and women, treatment of
Schaeffer, Genie (wife)
and gynecological problems
and mother-in-law
pregnancy of
as Roman Catholic
as San Francisco hippie
Schaeffer, Jessica (daughter)
and father/daughter relationship
and grandmother
Schaeffer, John (son)
Schaeffer, Priscilla (sister)
Schaeffer, Susan (sister)
Schaeffer V Productions
Schools, Christian
Schools, public, rejection of
Scripture
infallibility of
by inspiration of God
open interpretation of
See also Bible
The Second American Revolution (Frank Schaeffer)
Second Coming
Secular Humanists
Secularism
Secularists
Semen, emission of
Sermon on the Mount, Reconstructionist v
ersion of
Seville, George (grandfather)
Seville, Jessie (grandmother)
Sex
in the Bible
fear of
and God
and marriage
and pornography
premarital
Sex education
Sex scandals
congressional
Sexual awakening
Sexual dysfunction
Sexual extremism
Sexual hypocrisy
Sexual intercourse
Sexual politics
Sexual revolution
Sexuality, and Bible-believing views, damage of
Shame, Shanda, and Silence (documentary film)
Sheen, Fulton (archbishop of New York)
Six Day War
Slavery
Slepian, Barnett
Smith, Joseph
Solomon (king)
Southern Poverty Law Center
Spacing, of children. See also Family planning
Spousal abuse
Stack, Joseph
Stark, Thom
Stem cell research.
See also Life issues
Stevens, John Paul
Strange Women.
See also Women
Submission, to male authority
Success
vs. family
worldly
Suicide, assisted. See Assisted suicide
Sunstein, Cass
Suver, Katie
Switzerland. See also L’Abri Fellowship ministry
The Tale of Two Bad Mice (Potter)
Talks for Girls
Target America: The Influence of Communist Propaganda on U.S. Media (Tyson)
Tea Party movement
Temptation
Tertullian
Testimony
Theological Liberalism
Theology of not knowing
Theonomism. See Reconstructionism
Theory, and practice
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Tiller, George
A Time for Anger: The Myth of Neutrality (Frank Schaeffer)
Tonsure
Total depravity, doctrine of
Tracts
Traditional roles, for “other” women
Transvestites
Tribe, Laurence
“True Woman Conference,”
“True Woman Manifesto,”
Turnidge, Bruce
Turnidge, Joshua
Tyndale House
Tyson, James L.
Uganda, homosexuality in
Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels (Winston)
Uncleanness
of men
of women (see also Menstruation)
Unconditional election, doctrine of
U.S. Congress
and the Family
and sex scandals
U.S. government
anger/hatred toward–
and antiabortion movement
delegitimizing of
and the Family
U.S. Supreme Court
Viability, of the fetus
Victimhood
Walt Disney Company
The Way Home (Pride)
Westminster Theological Seminary
What Is A Family? (Edith Schaeffer)
Whatever Happened to the Human Race? (documentary film)
Whitehead, John
“The Wife’s Method,”
Winston, Hella
Winthrop, John
Witnessing
Witnessing aids
Womanhood
Women
in Afghanistan
biblical
body of
fear of
and God
and Islam
Jewish Orthodox
and male authority, submission to
and Moses
punishment of
purity regulations for
and Reconstructionism
and Strange Women
traditional roles for
uncleanness of (see also Menstruation)
as unofficial head of church
Women’s rights
Word Books
Wright, Jeremiah
Zondervan
1 By “affirms,” I mean the overall message of redemption rather than all the details, like the exact dimension of Noah’s Ark or the actual numbers of hours it took God to create the world, which the more diehard fundamentalists take literally, as did my parents in the early days of their ministry.
2 Actually (as best as I remember), on that Diaphragm Vacation Susan was already away from home studying in England. But I’ve combined the memory of that year’s vacation with previous ones when we were all together. Everything is as I remember it, only spread over several summers: The big “Catholic family” was next to us one summer, and the diaphragm revelation happened another year when only Debby was with Mom, Dad, and me.
3 “A Family at Cross-Purposes: Billy Graham’s Sons Argue over a Final Resting Place,” Washington Post, December 13, 2006.
4 Ibid.
5 Dave Andrusko while reviewing Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars by Cynthia Gorney (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997) and Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War by James Risen and Judy Thomas (New York: Basic Books, 1997) in First Things 78 (November 1998): 32–36.
6 Endorsements of Dad and his books as quoted on Amazon.com, www.amazon.com/How-Should-We-Then-Live/dp/1581345364/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285237692&sr=1–1.
7 Left Behind is a series of sixteen best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins dealing with Christian End Times prophecies, the eschatological viewpoint of the “end of the world,” and the Return of Christ to kill and/or judge all “unbelievers.”
8 The Book of Mormon says “Lamanites,” dark-skinned indigenous Americans, fought light-skinned “Nephites.” Archaeologists and geneticists do not endorse the existence of Lamanites.
9 John Hagee, The One Jerusalem Blog, January 25, 2007, www.onejerusalem.org/blog/archives/2007/01/audio_exclusive_12.asp.
10 See Majmu’a Rasa’il Ibn Abidin, 1/84–85, www.shariahprogram.ca/islam-qa-women/tampons-permissible-marriage.shtml.
11 Joel Brinkley, “Afghanistan’s Dirty Little Secret,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 29, 2010, http://articles.sfgate.com/2010–08–29/opinion/22949948_1_karzai-family-afghan-men-president-hamid-karzai.
12 I tell this story in Faith of Our Sons: A Father’s Wartime Diary (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2004), and I draw on my experiences in my novel Baby Jack (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2006).
13 Sonali Kolhatkar, “Should We Worry Whether Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality?” Alternet, September 11,2010, www.alternet.org/media/148142/should_we_worry_whether_porn_has_hijacked_our_sexuality/?page=entire.
14 Gail Dines, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (Boston: Beacon Press, June 2010).
15 “Boys Who See Porn More Likely to Harass Girls,” Sunday Times, January 24, 2010, www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6999874.ece. According to this article, “Boys exposed to porn are more likely to indulge in casual sex and less likely to form successful relationships when they grow older, according to research carried out in a dozen countries,” and “the average age at which they first saw porn has dropped from 15 to 11 in less than a decade. The average amount of time they watch porn on the internet is 90 minutes a week.”
16 Benjamin Edelman, “Markets Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 23, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 209–220.
17 Frances A. Schaeffer, The Mark of the Christian (Chicago: InterVarsity Press, 1976).
18 David A. Patten, “Franklin Graham: Obama ‘Giving Islam a Pass,’ Warns of Persecution,” Newsmax.com, May 3, 2010, www.newsmax.com/Headline/franklin-graham-islam-obama/2010/05/03/id/357711.
19 Natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze morality. Some Church Fathers in the Wes
t incorporated natural law theory into Christian theology. Recently, conservative Roman Catholic intellectuals have used natural law to support their theological Far Right ideas. Here is a good definition by Elizabeth Anscombe, one of the leading Roman Catholic intellectuals of the twentieth century: “Any type of wrong action is ‘against the natural law’: stealing is, framing someone is, oppressing people is. ‘Natural law’ is simply a way of speaking about the whole of morality, used by Catholic thinkers because they believe the general precepts of morality are laws promulgated by God our Creator in the enlightened human understanding when it is thinking in general terms about what are good and what are bad actions. That is to say, the discoveries of reflection and reasoning when we think straight about these things are God’s legislation to us (whether we realize this or not).” G. E. M. Anscombe, “Contraception and Chastity” (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1975).
20 Vincent Bugliosi, Divinity of Doubt: The God Question (New York: Vanguard Press, 2011), 47.
21 Thom Stark, The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When It Gets God Wrong (and Why Inerrancy Tries to Hide It) (Eugene, OR: WIPF and Stock, 2010), 168.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid., 207.
24 Eddie Izzard, “Dress to Kill” San Francisco, Script-Dialogue Transcript, www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/e/eddie-izzard-dress-to-kill-script.html.
25 Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, the Reformed faith, or Reformed theology) is a theological system. This branch of Christianity is named for French reformer John Calvin. According to Calvin, God is able to save every person upon whom He has mercy and His efforts are not frustrated by the unrighteousness or the inability of humans. The system is based on Five Points: total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints. The doctrine of total depravity says that, as a consequence of the fall of humanity into sin, every person born into the world is enslaved to the service of sin. The doctrine of unconditional election maintains that God chose from eternity those whom He will bring to Himself. The doctrine of limited atonement asserts that Jesus’ substitutionary atonement was definite and certain in its design and accomplishment. This implies that only the sins of the elect were atoned for by Jesus’ death. The doctrine of irresistible grace says that the saving grace of God is effectually applied to those whom He has determined to save (that is, the elect) and, in God’s timing, overcomes their resistance to obeying the call of the gospel. The doctrine of perseverance (or preservation) of the saints asserts that since God is sovereign, His will cannot be frustrated by humans or anything else.