The aim of this guide is to help readers grasp Schaeffer's essential ideas through a study of his "trilogy" ; The God Who is There, Escape from Reason and He is Not Silent.
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the great philosophers of our era whose concept of creative evolution continues to dominate a large area of modern thought. In Bergson’s view, the world includes two opposing tendencies-life and matter. Life is dynamics, has force and will, and struggles for richness and complexity through and beyond matter. Matter is the congealed residue of creation that…
Confessions is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace. Writing as a sinner, not a saint, Augustine shares his innermost thoughts and conversion experiences and wrestles with the spiritual questions that have stirred the hearts of the thoughtful since time began. Starting with his childhood in Numidia, through his youth and early adulthood …
"The Grand Design", by eminent scientist Stephen Hawking, is the latest blockbusting contribution to the "New Atheist" debate, and claims that the laws of physics themselves brought the universe into being, rather than God. In this swift and forthright reply, John Lennox, oxford mathematician and author of "God's Undertaker", takes a closer look at Hawking's logic. In lively, layman's terms, Le…
A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers since the beginning of Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry is treated in a separate chapter, so that each chapter can be read as a complete unit, without reference to the others. Includes Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Dewey, Sartre, and many others.
In This Volume Cornelius Van Til Focuses on the nature of a commitment to biblical authority and its implications for non-Christian thought. To some degree an expansion of and supplement to his The Defense of the faith, this book compares and contrasts a consistently Christian approach to knowledge with interpretations that have been given to it throughout church history. Van Til gives specific…
How do we know what we know? What have wisdom, prudence and studiousness to do with justifying our beliefs? Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the context of the intellectual virtues. He then surveys current views of foundationalism, epistemic justification and reliabilism. Finally he examines the relationship of epistemolo…
Berbagai cabang penyelidikan ilmiah yang berbeda-beda dapat dibagi menjadi dua kelompok besar: ilmu empiris dan nonempiris. Ilmu empiris berusaha untuk mengeksplorasi, mendeskripsi, memprediksi dan menjelaskan kejadian-kejadian di duni tempat kita hidup. Oleh karena itu, pernyataan-pernyataan Ikmu empiris harus dicocokan dengan fakta pengalaman kita, dan pernyataan-pernyataan tersebut dapat dit…
JATIDIRI MANUSIA Berdasar Filsafat Organisme Whitehead Tugas utana manusia", kata Sokrates, "adalah menggembalakan jiwanya". Untuk itu manusia harus mengenal dirinya yang sejati atau JATIDIRI-nya. "Siapakah aku?" merupakan pertanyaan yang sangat kompleks dengan unsur- unsur dan taraf-tarafnya yang berbeda-beda. "Aku" di hadapan orangtua tidak sama dengan aku di hadapan tanaman kesayanganku, …
Semua orang beriman secara naluriah memahami bahwa Tuhan mengatasi akal manusia. Dengan penuh penyerahan diri, biasanya mereka berkata, Tuhan tidak bisa dijangkau dengan akal. Namun, para filosof tidak mau menyerah begitu saja. Bagi mereka, Tuhan yang menganugerahi akal (intelijen) pastilah bisa dijangkau dengan akal (inteljbel)-dalam batas-batas tertentu. Jika tidak, lalu apa tujuan Tuhan memb…