Philosophy of the Lecture Outline
Having been a public speaker for over forty years, I have realized that offering an audience a lecture outline can fortify and increase...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Oct 27, 2020
- 2 min
Jesus and Logic
In On Jesus (Wadsworth, 2003), I argue that Jesus was not an irrational mystic, but was a kind of philosopher who valued reason and who...
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Douglas Groothuis
- May 28, 2020
- 6 min
Moral Theory for Church Leaders
As pastors and teachers in the church seek to exposit and apply the Bible to their congregations, they need to handle wisely the moral...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Jan 15, 2020
- 14 min
The New Age Jesus
Those enamored of New Age spirituality usually find in Jesus a kindred spirit. Rather than exiling Jesus to the legendary lore of...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Mar 28, 2019
- 3 min
Television: Agent of Truth Decay
This is excerpted from Douglas Groothuis, Truth Decay(InterVarsity Press, 2000). First, television emphasizes the moving image over...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Mar 7, 2019
- 10 min
What is This Thing Called Love?
Originally posted on 7/13/2015 What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? Just who can solve its mystery? Why should...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Mar 22, 2018
- 4 min
Looking Back to an Old Typewriter
What difference might a typewriter make on one’s writing style; might it even affect one’s thinking itself? We are what we write, and how...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Mar 15, 2018
- 3 min
Truth, the Universe, and You
By Douglas Groothuis and Elizabeth Johnston Intellectual sobriety is rare. When pressed to think at all, many act like drunken sailors...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Feb 8, 2018
- 5 min
7 Principles of Technogesis
“If you want to know what water is, don’t ask a fish.” So goes the Chinese proverb. By extension, if you want to understand the strengths...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Feb 1, 2018
- 7 min
The Book That No One Read
As the editor of a series of cultural critiques on compelling issues, Os Guinness wanted my work The Soul in Cyberspace to be “a shot...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Jan 25, 2018
- 5 min
Two Views of Suffering: Atheist Existentialism and Christianity
By nature, we all avoid suffering, and suffering comes in so many varieties. We attend funerals and sob. We visit a loved one in a...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Nov 8, 2017
- 5 min
A Royal Ruin: Pascal’s Argument from Humanity to Christianity
The Bible is God’s anthropology rather than man’s theology—Abraham Heschel We humans often puzzle over our own humanity, scanning our...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Jul 17, 2015
- 3 min
Blood Money: Antinatalism, Logic, and Life
A recently-released video claims that the body parts of very young and recently murdered humans are auctioned off to the highest bidder...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Jun 10, 2015
- 5 min
Christianity, Cosmos, and Human Meaning
Recently, Bill Nye, The Science Guy, remarked in a YouTube video that Christians were fools for thinking that human beings had...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Jun 3, 2015
- 2 min
Cosmology
Cosmology is the study of the nature and origin of the cosmos. The rare word, cosmogony, is sometimes refers to the origin of the cosmos....
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Douglas Groothuis
- Apr 13, 2015
- 2 min
Becoming
Perhaps only a philosopher would muse over becoming as a noun. Everyone uses it as a verb: I am becoming old. I am becoming angry. I am...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Feb 25, 2015
- 2 min
Buddhism, Nondualism, and Christianity: Preliminary Thoughts on Love and Ontology
There are many worldviews on offer, but all cannot be true, given logic and experience. One test for any worldview is whether or not it...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Feb 23, 2015
- 5 min
Christianity and Autonomous Reason: Drawing an Important Distinction
The secular philosophy textbook I use for Introduction to Philosophy classes proclaims that philosophy exercises one’s rational autonomy....
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Douglas Groothuis
- Feb 4, 2015
- 1 min
Books on the Philosophy of Technology
Techology bewitches, seduces, entrances, and benefits us. Since it lies in the background of our thinking and acting, it remains...
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Douglas Groothuis
- Dec 5, 2014
- 2 min
Epistemology and Morality: The Case of the Ferguson Shooting
One cannot know the good and act rightly if one cannot sift evidence and construct sound arguments with a virtuous character. This is...
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