The following works were referenced, cited, or influential in the development of this book. This is not an exhaustive academic bibliography. It is a record of the voices that shaped the framework, whether by agreement or by contrast.
The King James Version (KJV). All Scripture quotations in this book are from the Authorized Version of 1611.
Vermes, Geza. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. London: Penguin Books, 1997.
Wise, Michael, Martin Abegg Jr., and Edward Cook. The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.
Josephus, Flavius. Antiquities of the Jews. Book XIII, Chapter V, Section 9.
Clark, Gordon H. Religion, Reason, and Revelation. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 1961.
Edwards, Jonathan. The End for Which God Created the World. 1765. Edwards’ idealist ontology, largely ignored by his theological heirs, is the closest historical predecessor to operational idealism. See Appendix M.
Edwards, Jonathan. Notes on the Mind. Unpublished during Edwards’ lifetime. Contains his most explicit idealist commitments.
Gill, John. A Body of Doctrinal Divinity. London, 1769.
Luther, Martin. The Bondage of the Will. 1525.
Poythress, Vern S. In the Beginning Was the Word: Language - A God-Centered Approach. Wheaton: Crossway, 2009. The closest contemporary Reformed thinker to operational idealism, though Poythress never commits to the idealist position. See Appendix M.
Toplady, Augustus. The Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church of England. London, 1774.
Van Til, Cornelius. The Defense of the Faith. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 1955. Van Til’s insistence that “there are no brute facts” leans idealist, but he explicitly rejected idealism by name due to its association with Hegel.
Higby, Bob. “Dead Sea Scroll Evidence.” pristinegrace.org.
Higby, Bob. Various articles on sovereign grace theology. pristinegrace.org.
Kraft, Brandan. “Grace Gems from the Dead Sea Scrolls.” pristinegrace.org.
Kraft, Brandan. “Modified Covenant Theology.” pristinegrace.org.
Kraft, Brandan. Various articles on sovereign grace theology, 2005-2026. pristinegrace.org.
Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. 1710. Berkeley’s subjective idealism (esse est percipi) is distinguished from operational idealism in Appendix M. Perception is passive. Authorship is intentional.
Bostrom, Nick. “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?” Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 211, 2003. The secular simulation hypothesis is engaged in Appendix G and contrasted with operational idealism in Appendix M.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Phenomenology of Spirit. 1807. Hegel’s absolute idealism became the foundation of liberal Protestant theology and the reason the Reformed world rejected idealism entirely. See Appendix M.
Johnson, Phil. Correspondence regarding pristinegrace.org and the charge of “hyper-Calvinism.” See Appendix F.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost. 1667. Referenced in Chapter 13 regarding the literary tradition of Satan’s “fall.”
Plato. Republic. Circa 380 BC. The “law of Plato,” that the deity must never be proposed as the author of evil, is critiqued throughout this book.
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