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Douglas Groothuis
Aug 7, 20244 min read
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
By Dr. Douglas Groothuis Blaise Pascal was many things - a theological controversialist, a superb French stylist, an inventor, a...
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Douglas Groothuis
Feb 13, 20244 min read
Causation
By Dr. Douglas Groothuis An Opinionated Philosophical Dictionary Causation The world has a cause-and-effect structure. If it did not, we...
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Douglas Groothuis
Feb 5, 20242 min read
Antithesis
A Very Opinionated Philosophical Dictionary Antithesis A logically oppositional relationship between two concepts or propositions. A...
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Douglas Groothuis
Mar 4, 20212 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20206 min read
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, 202014 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 201910 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20185 min read
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, 20187 min read
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, 20185 min read
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, 20175 min read
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, 20153 min read
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, 20155 min read
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, 20152 min read
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, 20152 min read
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, 20152 min read
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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