Modern Philosophy and Modern Theology Thesis: Modern people have put various things “upstairs” in the area of nonreason in a desperate attempt to find some optimism about meaning and values.
How Should We Then Live? (8)
The Breakdown in Philosophy and Science Theme: if there are no absolutes, then the particulars, the individual things, have no meaning. What is meant by universal? What is meant by particular? Examples? Clear place we see this is in morals: “Who are you to be judge over us?”
How Should We Then Live? (7)
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. Alas, so much to be done, so little time. Here is the next set of notes and quotes from our study through Frances Schaeffer’s How Should We Then Live? What gave rise to modern science? The rise of modern science did not conflict with what the Bible […]
How Should We Then Live? (6)
Here are my notes from our continuing discussion on How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer where he makes the ultimate point that the Enlightenment was an attempt at a Reformation without the biblical worldview. What resulted was about what you would expect. From what stream did the Enlightenment develop, the Reformation or the […]
How Should We Then Live? (5) (Reformation, pt. 2)
Here are my notes from a previous discussion from our Friday night series on How Should We Then Live? Chapter 5 continues the discussion on the Reformation, but focuses on the the impact of the Reformation on the relationship between government and its citizens. People looking back 500 years later get bent out of shape that […]
How Should We Then Live? (4)
I’m really thinking about changing the titles to this series to “Friday’s with Francis.” Even so, here’s what hit me during my read of Chapter 4 on the Reformation. It is interesting that Renaissance and Reformation were dealing with the same question and were going on about the same time. I forget about that. They […]
How Should We Then Live? (3)
In the last chapter, Schaeffer pointed out how the Middle Ages saw a split of the disciplines of theology and philosophy. In the Renaissance, the fruit of that shift continued in scholasticism in the south of Europe. The philosophers idolized the past, but not the early Church. They, instead, looked back to the pagan […]
How Should We Then Live? (2)
Francis Schaeffer on Separating Heaven and Earth in the Middle Ages One thing that echoed in my head while reading this chapter was the fact that, in the biblical account, human beings are uniquely made. We are created as a creature embodying the merge of spirit and material, heaven and earth. No other creature has […]
How Should We Then Live? (1)
I meet with the young adult group on Friday nights for more targeted discussions. One of the things that Tammy and I have come to realize is that a lot of young adults do not see the value of gleaning wisdom from helpful folks who have come in generations before them. C.S. Lewis calls this […]