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What Has Jerusalem to Do With Athens?

October 20, 2015 Adam Setser

"What has Jerusalem to do with Athens, the Church with the Academy, the Christian with the heretic?" Tertullian asked this question in c. 200 AD, and it still plagues us, even today.

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In Philosophy & Theology Tags Athens, Jerusalem, Platonism, Aristotelianism, Western Philosophy

Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd

October 13, 2015 Adam Setser

Albert Camus is one those philosophers who is close to my heart because he helped me see myself more clearly and thereby helped me get out of a very dark place.

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In Philosophy & Theology Tags *Albert Camus, absurd, Worldview, Western Philosophy, Philosophy, Nihilism, Top Article

How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer

February 2, 2015 Adam Setser

Truth is absolute and it is pervasive. Every Christians worth their salt would believe that. But Schaeffer so astutely handles truth, in such revealing ways, that our faith is made sight in ways that can’t be anything but exhilarating and confidence-inspiring in all that is good, true, and beautiful in the world.

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In Book Reviews Tags *Francis Schaeffer, Western Philosophy, Philosophy
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