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    <title>universe next door</title>
    <subTitle>a basic worldview catalog</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Sire, James W.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>InterVarsity Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2004</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2004</dateIssued>
    <edition>4th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>293 p. ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Preface to the fifth edition -- A world of difference : introduction -- A universe charged with the grandeur of God :  Christian theism -- The clockwork universe : deism -- The silence of finite space : naturalism -- Zero point : nihilism -- Beyond nihilism : existentialism -- Journey to the east : eastern pantheistic monism -- A separate universe : the New Age--spirituality without religion -- The vanished horizon : postmodernism -- A view from the Middle East : Islamic theism -- The examined life : conclusion.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">James W. Sire.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Ideology</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Apologetics</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Theology, Doctrinal</topic>
    <topic>Popular works</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Ideology</topic>
    <topic>Religious aspects</topic>
    <topic>Christianity</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">B823.3 .S56 2009</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">140</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0830827803 (pbk. : alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2004000474</identifier>
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