institutions—Stanford, the University of Rhode Island, and North Texas State, for example—and Christian colleges. Subsequent editions have been edited to acknowledge readers with other worldviews, but the Christian perspective has, without apology, not been changed. In fact, the continued interest of readers in this book continues to surprise and please me. It has been translated into nineteen languages, and each year it finds its way into the hands of many students at the behest of professors in
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