Keyword Index
for the Journal of the
American Scientific Affiliation
and Perspectives on
Science and Christian Faith

This list includes all the (approximately 650) entries that may be found in the "Keys" field of the ASA Journal data base. The keywords are hyper-linked to the data base so that when the user clicks on the keyword the database is searched for that word and the search engine returns bibliographic data from Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith or from the Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation. Words in parentheses are not in the data base; they are only for clarification here.

Users should be cautioned that there is no guarantee of consistency in the assignment of these keywords to all relevant entries in the database; searches should therefore be done using several related keywords to assure an adequate search. Searches using other than the keywords listed here can be done from the Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith home page.

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abortion absolutes Abraham
accommodation Adam aesthetics
Africa afterlife Agassiz
age age of earth age of mankind
age of universe alienation altruism
America amino acids allegory
amorality analogy ancient history
angels animals animism
Anselm anthropic principle anthropocentrism
anthropomorphism anti-Christian views antinomies
anti-science antithesis apparent age
Apocrypha apologetics appropriate technology
Aquinas Aristotle
arms control art artifacts
artificial intelligence ASA Asia
atheism atmosphere atonement
Augustine Australia authority
authorship autonomy Babylon
Bacon (Francis) balance baptism
Barth being beginning
belief behavior behaviorism
Bible biblicism bibliography
birth control black people blood
body Bohr Bonhoeffer
Boyle brain breeding
Britain Brunner Buddhism
calendar Calvin Calvinism
calling Canada capital punishment
catastrophe catastrophism Catholicism
causality cause cave artifacts
cell certainty Chalcedon
chance chaos charity
children China Christ
Christian living Christian values Christianity
chronology church chromosomes
civil rights cloning coherence
commandments commitment common sense
communication community complementarity
compromise computers concordism
conditioning conflict conscience
consciousness conservation content
contingency continuous creation contraception
conversion Copernicus cosmogeny
cosmogony cosmology covenant
creation creation of universe creation of life
creation of mankind creationism Creator
creativity crime criticism
cults cultural relativism culture
cybernetics dating day
day-age Darwin Darwinism
David da Vinci death
de Chardin, Teilhard deduction deism
demons depression Descartes
description design determinism
Dewey (John) dialectic dialogue
dignity discovery disease
diversity DNA doctrine
dogmatism Dooyeweerd doubt
drugs dualism Durkheim
earth Eastern cultures ecosystems
education Einstein elements
elementary particles Ellul emergent properties
emotions empiricism energy
Enlightenment entropy environment
environmental ethics enzymes epistemology
equality errors (alleged in Bible) eschatology
ESP eternity eugenics
Europe euthanasia evangelicalism
evangelism Eve evidence
evil evolution evolutionism
existence exegesis existentialism
experience experiment explanation
extraterrestrials eye fact
faith family Fall
fallacies falsification Faraday
fate feedback fellowship
Flood Flood geology food
forces forgiveness fossils
Frankl freedom free enterprise
free will Freud function
functionalism fundamentalism future
games gaps galaxies
Galileo games Gamow
genealogy Genesis genes
genetic code geocentric universe geologic time
gifts Gilkey glory
goals God God of the gaps
Goedel Gospel grace
gravitation Greek language Greek philosophy
growth guilt handicaps
health healing heart
heaven Hebrew culture Hebrew language
Hegel Heisenberg hermeneutics
Hinduism history of science history of ASA
hoaxes holism holiness
Holy Spirit hominids homosexuality
hope Hoyle Hubble constant
human humanism humanities
human nature Hume humility
hunger Huxley (T.H.) hypnotism
hypothesis idealism identity
ideology image of God immanence
immortality incarnation indeterminism
India individual induction
inerrancy information theory inspiration
instrumentalism integration intelligence
intelligibility interpretation introspection
intuition irrationality Isaiah
Islam Israel Jaki
James (William) Japan Job
Judaism judgment Jung
justice justification Kant
Kepler Kierkegaard kinds
kingdom of God knowledge Kuhn
Lamarck Laplace land use
language Latin America leadership
legalism Leibniz levels
Lewis (C.S.) liberal theology life
limitations (of science) literalism literary criticism
loneliness long day (of Joshua) Lorentz
love Luther Lyell
Mach MacKay (Donald M.) magnetism
Malthus marriage Marx
Marxism Mary materialism
matter Maxwell meaning
mechanistic view medieval culture meditation
Mendel mental health mental illness
Mesopotamia metallurgy metaphor
metaphysics method microevolution
Middle East mind-brain problem minerals
miracles models modernism
molecules money monism
morality Mormons morphology
Morris (Henry) Moses motivation
murder mutation mystery
mysticism myth nationalism
natural evil natural selection natural theology
naturalism nature neo-orthodoxy
neurons neurosis New Age
new nature New Testament Newton
Niebuhr (H.R.) Noah nominalism
nuclear energy nuclear weapons nucleotides
numerology objectivity observation
oceans Old Testament ontology
order organic unity organism
organization origin of universe origin of life
origin of species pacifism Paley
Palestine parable paradox
paranoia parapsychology Pascal
Paul (Apostle) persecution personalism
personality personhood perspectives
phylogeny piety Planck
planets planning Plantinga
Plato platonism Plotinus
pluralism poetry Polanyi (Michael)
polarity pollution Popper
population postulates poverty
pragmatism prayer predestination
predictions prejudice presuppositions
pride probability problem
process theology progress progressive creationism
progressive revelation proof proofs (of God's existence)
prophecy protein Protestantism
providence pseudo-science psychoanalysis
psychology psychosis Ptolemy
public policy public schools punishment
purpose quantum physics quasars
races racism radioactivity
radioactive dating rationalism rationality
realism reality rebellion
reconciliation redemption reductionism
reformation regeneration relativism
relationships relativity religion
repression reproduction research
resources responsibility resurrection
revelation revolution righteousness
rights risks RNA
Russell (Bertrand) sabbath sacraments
salvation Satan Schaeffer (Francis)
schizophrenia scientism scientific community
scientific creationism scientific method Scopes trial
Second Coming secularism self
self-esteem self-reference selfishness
semantics Seventh-day Adventists sex
sexuality sin singleness
skepticism Skinner (B.F.) social Darwinism
social action social issues socialism
sociobiology soil Socrates
solar system Solomon soul
sovereignty (of God) Soviet Union space
special creationism species Spencer
Spinoza Spirit of God spirituality
spontaneous generation stars stewardship
stimulus-response stress structure
subconscious subjectivism suffering
supernatural supernova superstition
Sustainer (God as) symbols syncretism
teleology television temporality
terminology Tertullian theism
theistic evolution theodicy theory
thermodynamics thinking Third World
Tillich time TM
Torrance totalitarianism Tournier (Paul)
tradition traits transcendence
transcendental meditation transplants transportation
Trinity truth uncertainty
unconscious uniformitarianism unity
Ussher utilitarianism Utopia
vaccination values Van Til (Cornelius)
verification vestigial organs virgin birth
virtues viruses vitalism
vocation Vollenhoven von Rad
von Weizsaecker Wallace war
Warfield waste water
weather Weber (Max) Western culture
Wheeler (John A.) Whitehead whole and parts
will wisdom woman
work worship yoga
zen