Tag: Worldview

May 15, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?
May 15, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

 

The Alternatives

 
Overwhelming pressures are being brought to bear on people who have no absolutes, but only have the impoverished values of personal peace and prosperity. The pressures are progressively preparing modern people to accept a manipulative, authoritarian government.
May 15, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

 

Manipulation and the New Elite

 
As we consider the coming of an elite, an authoritarian state, to fill the vacuum left by the loss of Christian principles, we must not think naively of the models of Stalin and Hitler. We must think rather of a manipulative authoritarian government.
April 18, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

 

Modern Art, Music, Literature, and Films

 
For modern people, as they leap into the area of non-reason to try to find optimism without reason, not only are there no human or moral categories but there is no certainty, no categories upon which to distinguish between reality and illusion.
April 18, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

 

Modern Philosophy and Modern Theology

 
“Downstairs” in the area of humanistic reason, man is a machine, man is meaningless. There are no values. And “upstairs” optimism about meaning and values is totally separated from reason.
April 18, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

 

The Breakdown in Philosophy and Science

 
Modern man is a man of dichotomy. The dichotomy here is the total separation between the area of meaning and values, and the area of reason.
April 3, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

 

The Rise of Modern Science

 
Christianity is the mother of modern science because it insists that the God who created the universe has revealed himself in the Bible to be the kind of God he is.
April 3, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

 

The Enlightenment

 
Here was a man starting from himself absolutely. And if the humanistic elements of the Renaissance stand in sharp contrast to the Reformation, the Enlightenment was in total antithesis to it.
April 3, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

 

The Reformation Continued

 
What the Reformation’s return to biblical teaching gave society was the opportunity for tremendous freedom, but without chaos.
April 3, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

 

The Reformation

To the Reformation thinkers, authority was not divided between the Bible and the church. The church was under the teaching of the Bible.