Seasons & Episodes
Thales
As Christians we are not without answers to life's most fundamental questions. We have God's Word to supply those answer
Monism & Pluralism
Unaided by Scripture, the pre-Socractic philosophers embarked on a quest for ultimate reality. How did we get here? What
Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Zeno
What are you and what are you becoming? Are you the same person you were ten years ago? If not, then who are you? How ca
Socrates
What happened to virtue? What happened to truth? Is all hope lost in the realm of science, politics, and our court syste
Plato (Part 1)
All of us should know what a person is when we see one. But if you were asked to give a definition of a person that capt
Plato (Part 2)
What is the difference between opinion and knowledge? Everyone has an opinion about something. But what is that opinion
Aristotle (Part 1)
Why do acorns produce oak trees instead of something else? It may seem like a ridiculous question to our biblically info
Aristotle (Part 2)
What is the necessary instrument for knowledge? What instrument is employed to make sense of it all? How does knowledge
Plotinus and Neo-Platonism
In Christian thought, we derive our being from the ultimate personal, rational, and volitional Being—God. But not ever
Augustine
Many times we realize when our senses fail us, but how many times have they failed us, and we didn't know it? How can we
Anselm
Is God the greatest conceivable being you can think of? Of course He is. But how do we prove the God of our thinking is
Aquinas (Part 1)
You can't read about human DNA in the Bible and you can't study God's plan of redemption under a microscope. Does that m
Aquinas (Part 2)
When we think about the awesome nature of God, we may be tempted to say the words can't describe it. Is God so far above
The Renaissance Revolution
It seems that in our day, people choose the authority of science and philosophy over theology. But this is not a new thi
Descartes
With all the opposing ideas in the world, how do you know which ones are right? How do know your thoughts are any closer
Descartes and "Cause and Effect"
Many times a day, we think about doing things without actually doing those things. Then we have thoughts that manifest t
Leibniz
If God is perfect, how can His handiwork be so imperfect? How can a good God create a world with evil in it? These quest
Pascal
Often we use our imagination as a means of temporary escape from the pressures of life. We dream of an ideal world in wh
Locke
If you were to catalogue every piece of knowledge that is stored in your mind, you would realize that you know more than
Crisis in the 18th Century (Part 1)
How do you know what is real? If you are relying on your five senses to supply you with an answer, remember, there are m
Crisis in the 18th Century (Part 2)
What is the color of anything when the lights are out? As we try to understand the material world around us, how much ca
Berkeley and Empiricism
If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound? You've probably heard th
Hume (Part 1)
It has happened countless times in your life. You woke up and the grass was wet from the rain the night before, or so yo
Hume (Part 2)
Philosopher David Hume has caused many to rethink the law of causality. In essence, he concluded that we cannot really k
The Enlightenment (Part 1)
Kingdoms rise and fall. This fact of life has been proven again and again throughout world history. If we could only lea
The Enlightenment (Part 2)
During the Enlightenment, many minds were at work to rid society of religion. One way was to disregard Scripture and use
Kant (Part 1)
Where is the beginning of knowledge? What must be in order for knowledge to be? Most of us don't ponder questions like t
Kant (Part 2)
Do our speculations about God lead us into the realm of contradictions? Is it possible to rationally come to the conclus
Hegel
The traditional view of God is that He is a perfect being. In fact, one early church theologian described God as the mos
Marx
Are you a productive member of society? Are you getting a fair wage for your work? Sometimes it seems that the rich get
Kirkegaard
During a moment of existential decision, have you ever passionately committed yourself to the Christ of Scripture? This
Nietzsche
Where do you find your meaning? If you are a Christian, then you know it comes from God. Yet many people believe that me
Sartre and Heidegger
What is it that truly makes you human? What is the greatest threat to your humanness? Anthropology, the study of man, is
Russell
You don't need to be master logician to feel the weight of the question. If everything must have a cause, then what caus
Modern Philosophers
Philosophies such as positivism, pragmatism, pluralism, and relativism have been let loose to roam the halls of our scho
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