Quotes about Philosophy

As long as Christianity is treated as "moral poetry" and "tales of consolation," it poses no threat to the sovereignty of secularism.

postmodernists are just as concerned about objective truth as anyone else. Dallas Willard comments, "I have noticed that the most emphatic of Postmodernists turn coldly modern when discussing their fringe benefits or other matters that make a great difference to their practical life." 35 If we use the metaphor that a worldview is a mental map, postmodernists keep walking off their map. It is too small to account for the full geography of who they are.

Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.

To the Greeks, this was not spiritual progress; it was regress. Why would anyone want to come back to the material world, the realm of evil and corruption? The whole idea was utter foolishness to the Greeks (1 Cor. 1:23 KJV).

Like every alternative to Christianity, the mechanistic worldview was essentially a substitute religion, a mental idol.

The Galileo saga is typically told as a conflict between science and religion. But in reality it was a conflict among Christians over the correct philosophy of nature. Was it Aristotle's quality or Galileo's quantity? Galileo's victory was the triumph of the idea that the nature is constructed on a mathematical blueprint.

In every field, Christians must learn critical thinking skills. Otherwise, we may simply absorb idol-based philosophies from the intellectual atmosphere.

You can be utterly confident that any non-biblical worldview will be too "small" to account for all of reality.

We can call this view liberalism, employing a definition by the self-described liberal philosopher Peter Berkowitz. In his words, "Each generation of liberal thinkers" focuses on "dimensions of life previously regarded as fixed by nature," then seeks to show that in reality they are "subject to human will and remaking.

A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.

The ordered patterns in nature are not logically necessary. They are contingent on God's will.

We've limited Christianity to salvation and sanctification," he said. But "Christianity is the truth about everything.