DOUGLAS GROOTHUIS, PH.D.

By Douglas Groothuis, PhD It is easy to underestimate and hard to overestimate the significance of an introduction to philosophy course. I recently met a young lady who took a required introduction to philosophy course at a prestigious Christian university. When I said I taught introduction to philosophy at Cornerstone University, she replied that her course elsewhere made her want “to pull her hair out.” I have long believed that taking such a course can either make or break

By Douglas Groothuis, PhD When I refer to Schaeffer’s “Christian humanism,” I do not mean anything like secular humanism or the attempt to find truth and meaning by placing man at the center of the universe. Schaeffer rightly found this to be the source of all philosophical and cultural errors in the very good from which this quote is taken. But humanism can be Christian in the sense that Christians know that human beings have unique objective value because they are made in G