Francis Schaeffer

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The Shift of Philosophical Grounds [Audio Product]

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Rousseau moved the lines from grace and unity to nature and freedom. This presupposition led to determinism. Determinism is simply the unity of cause and effect. Gogan painted Rousseau’s idea of freedom with a beautiful Tahitian young girl and... More

The Uniformity of Natural Causes is a Closed System [Audio Product]

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The idea of a unified field of Knowledge makes man a part of the Big Machine. Now modern scientists say this philosophy doesn't work because everything is determinism. This leaves no place for God and no place for any man who is made in the... More

The Modern View of man in a Closed System [Audio Product]

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Renaissance men dealt on the memory of a reasonable God. Michael Angelo's "David" is a statement of the greatness of man and is opposed to Zen philosophy which can be summed up as 'man enters the water and causes no ripple.'... More

Marquis de Sade's Determinism [Audio Product]

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De Sade was a writer who used pornography to promote his philosophic ideas. He is an early chemical determinist: Man did things because his chemical make up caused him to do it. There was no right or wrong in a moral sense. De Sade carried it to a... More

The Line of Despair Clarified [Audio Product]

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With Kant and Hegel this philosophy spread to art, music, poetry, cinema and mass media. Kant changed Rousseau’s machine to 'Phenomenal and Nominal' and a great tension. Hegel opened widely the 'line of despair'. Philosophies... More

Below the Line of Despair [Audio Product]

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Soren Kierkegaard despaired of finding truth. He is the father of the generation gap which is a different way of looking at truth. Today's student says there is no such thing as truth. Kierkegaard redefined faith as a 'leap into the dark... More

Modern Man is a Secular Existentialist [Audio Product]

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There is a tension between rationality and faith. Kierkegaard's faith never has anything to do with reason. It is opposite of John's Gospel which says Jesus did many space/time things and that these things fulfilled Old Testament prophecies... More

The Final Experience of Karl Jaspers [Audio Product]

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Though this “final experience” of Jaspers was the ultimate goal of man, Jaspers could not communicate this experience because there was, in his mind, no foundation for it to exist. Thus, there is no hope, just a denial of history. This... More

More Men Under the Line of Despair [Audio Product]

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Tags: Biblical reasoning, existentialism, Heidegger, Jaspers, linguistic analysis, Moody, Positivism, Sartre, Wittgenstein

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Jasper, Sartre, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein were men who were willing to reject biblical reason. Until age 70 Heidegger was clearly an existentialist. He championed 'angst'; a fear or dread without any reason or meaning. Wittgenstein came up... More

Optimistic Humanism [Audio Product]

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Michael Polanyi destroyed 'Positivism' and left himself without any surety. Rejecting the 'Knower' leaves rationalism followers with the despair of not understanding the Known or Jesus Christ. Linguistic Analysis tries its own system... More

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