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The Need for Viewpoint Diversity on College Campuses
lundi 3 février 2025 • Durée 07:50
In this episode, Dr. Groothuis discusses the suppression of free speech on college campuses, particularly by the "woke" ideology, referencing Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance."
Topics Covered:
Challenges of Intellectual Debate on College Campuses
Story of True Tolerance at the University of Oregon
Hopes for Future Academic Freedom
Other Resources Mentioned:
Dr. Groothius's book' Unmasking the New Age
American Evangelicalism: Conservative Religion and the Quandary of Modernity by James Davidson Hunter
Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Research Professor of Apologetics and Christian Worldview at Cornerstone University and the author of twenty books, including Beyond the Wager: The Christian Brilliance of Blaise Pascal (InterVarsity, 2024).
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College Students Are Struggling to Read Books - Can Anything Help?
lundi 27 janvier 2025 • Durée 28:29
Often I will read a previously published essay or review of mine, or maybe even part of one of my books. But today I'd like to be a little more off the cuff and talk about the need to return to reading, particularly reading books.
There's an article in The Atlantic Monthly, November 2024, called The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books. To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school, and this essay laments the lack of reading of books in high school and the fact that many college students are not prepared to read.
In this episode, I want to share my own reading journey and talk about what it might take to help students today embrace and strengthen their reading life.
Resources Mentioned:
The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books.
A Christian philosopher’s path to truth | Douglas Groothuis: Four books that shaped my thinking
Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Research Professor of Apologetics and Christian Worldview at Cornerstone University and the author of twenty books, including Beyond the Wager: The Christian Brilliance of Blaise Pascal (InterVarsity, 2024).
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How the Apostles Creed Can Serve as a Counter Catechism
lundi 18 novembre 2024 • Durée 17:53
In this episode of Truth Tribe, Doug Groothuis discusses the Apostles' Creed, emphasizing its role in Christian doctrine and its denial of various non-Christian beliefs. He argues for a "counter catechism" to equip Christians to counter false teachings in a hostile world. Groothuis outlines the Creed's affirmations and corresponding denials, such as rejecting pantheism, polytheism, and henotheism, and affirming Jesus' divinity and resurrection. He also denies teachings like reincarnation, annihilationism, and the Swoon Theory. Groothuis emphasizes the importance of spiritual discernment and theological testing, advocating for a strong understanding of what is false in relation to true Christian doctrine.
Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Research Professor of Apologetics and Christian Worldview at Cornerstone University and the author of twenty books, including Beyond the Wager: The Christian Brilliance of Blaise Pascal (InterVarsity, 2024).
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Lament as a Tonic for Suffering
lundi 16 janvier 2023 • Durée 25:27
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life (Proverbs 13:12).
How to Cope in Crisis and Chronic sadness?
A. My conviction: Christianity is true, rational, and pertinent to whole of life. See Douglas Groothuis, Christian Apologetics; see especially, “The Problem of Evil” chapter
B. Yet there is evil, pain, suffering, and lament
C. But, we can smelt, squeeze, and sculpt meaning out of suffering through divine love
I. Lament: A Tonic for Suffering
A. A tonic, not a cure (in this life)
What is biblical lament?
1. The anguished cry of sorrow, grief, and often anger made before God and with hope of resolution. Lament is caused the loss of a something good or by the fear of the loss of a good thing, such as justice, health, or a loving relationship. One may lament over oneself, others, or the creation itself.
a. Negro spirituals, “Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child,” and the blues, “Motherless Children.”
b. Sixty Psalms of lament (6, 13, 22, 39, 88, 90, 137, etc.)
c. Book of Job: We are “born for trouble as the sparks fly upward” (5:7)
d. Ecclesiastes 9:11 (KJV)
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
2. Christ’s absolute suffering on the Cross for redemption: lament of all laments redeems the cosmos
a. “My God my God, why have you forsaken me”? (Matthew 27:46; from Psalm 22)
b. “Come lift up your sorrow and offer your pain. Come make a sacrifice of all your shame. There in your wilderness, he is waiting for you to worship with your wounds for he’s wounded, too.” Michael Card, from “The Hidden Face of God” recording (2006)
c. Jesus: “It is finished” Not finished for us, though—yet
d. Participating in Christ’s suffering through lament: Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.
Lightening the Load of Suffering
A. Let grief take its course: Said to a mother grieving the suicide of her 19-year-old son: “It’s been six weeks”
B. Let yourself and others weep; accept their tears; listen to their tears
You have taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears in your bottle Are they not in your book? (Psalm 56:8; see Revelation 7:17).
C. Don’t give cheap answers; don’t try to read God’s mind in the whys of suffering
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night—then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it (Ecclesiastes 8:16-17; see also Deuteronomy 29:29, Romans 11:33-36).
D. Don’t try to cheer people up out of season
Like one who takes away a garment on a cold day,
or like vinegar poured on a wound,
is one who sings songs to a heavy heart (Proverbs 25:20).
E. Don’t make promises you cannot fulfill; keep your word
It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it (Ecclesiastes 5:5).
F. Prayer as a way of life (Ephesians 6:10-19).
G. Remember that lament for the redeemed is not forever (Revelation 21-22)
Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the...
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A Theology of Culture
lundi 9 janvier 2023 • Durée 20:25
Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.
Culture is where humanity shapes nature according to a worldview. Humans are to develop creation for the glory of God, since they bear God’s image (Genesis 1:26-28; Psalm 8). All cultural activity should be performed for the glory of God under the Lordship of Christ. As Abraham Kuyper said:
There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, “Mine!”
Francis Schaeffer further emphasized that all legitimate activities are spiritual.
True spirituality covers all of reality. There are things the Bible tells us as absolutes which are sinful- which do not conform to the character of God. But aside from these things the Lordship of Christ covers all of life and all of life equally. It is not only that true spirituality covers all of life, but it covers all parts of the spectrum of life equally. In this sense there is nothing concerning reality that is not spiritual.
We find three biblical themes for cultural engagement under the Lordship of Christ.
I. Separation/antithesis: Against the world, for the world, under God. Recognize the radical fallenness of the world and its systems (Psalm 1; 1 John 2:15-17).
When everything is moving at once, nothing appears to be moving, as on board ship. When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées.
A. Paul at Athens: One transcendent creator; no idols; resurrection of the dead (Acts 17:16-43)
B. Danger: legalistic separatism
C. Don’t compromise with the squalor of popular culture: “Game of Thrones,” etc. Ken Myers, All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes: Christians and Popular Culture.
D. Bearing witness philosophically against postmodernism. See Douglas Groothuis, Truth Decay (IVP, 2000)
1. Defend a biblical view of truth
2. Revealed/authoritative—not constructed or contingent all the way down
3. Objective—not merely subjective
4. Absolute—not relative, conventional
5. Universal—not provincial, parochial
6. Antithetical—not synthetic, irresponsibly eclectic, ad hoc
II. Conservation/common grace: “He Shines through all that’s fair”
A. Matthew 5:45: Sun shines and rain falls on just and unjust
B. Be discerning and relentless scavengers for common grace; philosophical detection of truth and rationality outside the fold; put back material where it belongs (James Orr)
C. Plunder the Egyptians but don’t worship their idols (Augustine)
D. Dangers: accommodating the worldly (James 1:27; 1 John 2:15-17)
E. Common grace: The American system of government. See Douglas Groothuis, Fire in the Streets
1. Separation of powers: sin and reform
2. Representational and constitutional government: ordered liberty under law
3. Five radiant freedoms of the first amendment: law giving room for religion and the preaching of grace in Christ
First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
III. Transformation: “Crown him with many crowns,” crown rights of King Jesus: Psalm 2; Matthew 28:18-20; 2 Cor. 10:3-5
A. Permeate society and claim as much as possible for Christ and his Kingdom.
B. Danger: triumphalism, zeal without knowledge
C. The “humble prophet,” neither dogmatist, nor relativist; regaining a resonate, prophetic and intelligent voice in the public square
1. Knows, exegetes the culture (I Chron. 12:32; Tribe of Issachar)
2. Knows, exegetes the...
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A Philosophy of Technology
lundi 2 janvier 2023 • Durée 22:40
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An Introduction to Biblical Ethics
lundi 26 décembre 2022 • Durée 20:41
A. The Bible and ethics. See J. Douma, Responsible Conduct (Presbyterian and Reformed, 2003)
- Bible at completely true in all it affirms, the standard for truth (sola Scriptura), and applicable to all of life
- Bible as a guide (Psalm 119; 2 Tim. 3:15-16), the ultimate authority.
- Bible as a compass, provides and orientation, but not specifics on some matters; a way of life (Proverbs [wisdom and folly], Ecclesiastes, Deuteronomy 30)
- Bible as a source or moral and immoral examples, narratives (Historical books of OT; Jesus in Gospels, Hebrews 11)
Two errors in appealing to the Bible for ethics:
1. Biblicism: the letter of Scripture without context and sense of placement in redemptive history.
2. Latitudinarianism: Scripture shorn of authority, diluted, distorted by contemporary tastes, preferences, orientations. Theological liberalism. See Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless, “progressive Christianity.”
II. Three categories of law
- Ceremonial law
- Civil law - When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof (Deuteronomy 22:8)
- Moral law: Ten Commandments
III. Three Uses of the Law (Calvin, Institutes, book 2, chapter seven)
A. Constraint on evil (1 Tim. 1:9-10): barricade
B. Condemnation of sinners, pedagogical use (Galatians 3:24): mirror Lutherans emphasize this as the primary function.
C. Guidance for the godly (Jer. 31:33; Romans 15:4; Heb. 10:16): yardstick
IV. Uniqueness of Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1-18; Deut. 5)
A. Sinai Event itself occasioned by special signs (Exodus 19)
B. Torah within the Torah: “summarily comprehends” the moral law (Westminster Larger Catechism)
C. Emphasis on the Ten Commandments throughout Scripture
D. Justification and sanctification
V. Understanding the Commandments
A. View in light of (1) original situation and (2) larger canonical setting, particularly the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)
B. Two tables of the Law (see Matthew 22:37-39)
C. Eight principles for interpreting the Ten Commandments: Westminster Larger Catechism.
Consider three
1. What are the duties required?
2. What at the sins prohibited?
3. What are the blessings of obedience?
VI. Pursue virtue; avoid vice (Matthew 5:1-16)
A. Fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5)
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other (Galatians 5:22-26)
B. Gifts of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12-14)
C. Don’t let the gifts get ahead of the fruits: God’s work in you is prior and more important than God’s work through you (ministry)
D. Works of the flesh (Galatians 5)
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19-21).
VII. Consequences
A. Do as much good as you can for as many as you for as long as you can without breaking God’s law or grieving the Holy Spirit.
B. Blessings for obedience to covenant (Deuteronomy 8, 28, etc.)
C. Be zealous for good works in the power of the Holy Spirit; zeal and knowledge, not one without the other
D. For we are God's handiwork,...
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An Interview on Critical Race Theory and the Christian Worldview
lundi 19 décembre 2022 • Durée 01:04:21
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Apologetics in a Nutshell
jeudi 15 décembre 2022 • Durée 45:59
I. The Need for Defending Christianity as True, Rational, and Pertinent: Apologetics
A. Biblical case for rational spirituality (Matthew 22:37-39; 1 Peter 3:15-16; Jude 3; 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
B. Defending objective truth of Christian worldview in humility and dependence on God (Luke 9:23-26)
C. Showing existential significance and consequence of Christianity. Prudential reasoning (Pascal)
D. Being wise as serpent, innocent as a dove, bold as a lion (Matthew 10:16; Proverbs 28:1)
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8 Important Statements about the Christian Worldview
lundi 28 novembre 2022 • Durée 27:28
1. God is infinite and personal (triune), transcendent and immanent, omniscient, sovereign and good (Exodus 3:14; Matthew 28:18-20).
2. God created the cosmos ex nihilo with a uniformity of cause and effect in an open system (Genesis 1:1; John 1:1-2).
3. Human beings are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27) and thus possess personality, self-transcendence, intelligence, morality, gregariousness and creative.
4. Human beings can know both the world around them and God himself because God has built into them the capacity to do so and because he takes an active role in communicating with them (Genesis 1-2; Psalm 8).
5. Human beings were created good, but through the Fall the image of God became defaced, though not so ruined as not to be capable of restoration; through the work of Christ, God redeemed humanity and began the process of restoring people to goodness, though any given person may choose to reject that redemption (John 3:1-18; Romans 5:1-8).
6. For each person death is either the gate to life with God and his people or the gate to eternal separation (hell) from the only thing that will ultimately fulfill human aspirations. See Matthew 25:31-46.
7. Ethics is transcendent and is based on the character of God as good (holy and loving). Exodus 20:1-8; Matthew 22:37-40.
8. History is linear, a meaningful sequence of events leading to the fulfillment of God’s purposes in history (1 Corinthians 15).
Touchstone proposition for the Christian worldview: “The universe (originally good, now fallen and awaiting its divine restoration) is created by the Triune God, who has revealed himself in nature, conscience, Scripture, and through the Incarnation for the purpose of salvation and judgment that God might be glorified in all things.”
Further Resources:
1. DouglasGroothuis.com.
2. Douglas Groothuis, “The Christian Worldview,” Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith, 2nd ed. (InterVarsity Academic, 2022).
3. Ronald Nash, Worldviews in Conflict (Zondervan Academic, 1992).
4. Nancy Pearcey, Total Truth (Crossway, 2005).
5. James Sire, The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalogue (InterVarsity Press, 2020).
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