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Ideas
Have Consequences
Richard
M. Weaver
In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the
ills of our age and offers a realistic remedy. He asserts that world is
intelligible, and that man is free. The catastrophes of our age are the
product not of necessity but of unintelligent choice. A cure, he submits, is
possible. It lies in the right use of man's reason, in the renewed acceptance
of an absolute reality, and in the recognition that ideas — like actions —
have consequences.
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An Introduction to
Christian Philosophy
Gordon Clark
Not since the days of
Luther and Calvin has anyone started a complete revolution in philosophy.
Here, in three lectures delivered at Wheaton College in 1966, Gordon H.
Clark launches a breathtaking and invigorating attack on worldly wisdom -
all in the name of a sufficient revelation and a sufficient Savior. Taking
his lead from Paul ("What communion has light with darkness? What
accord has Christ with Belial?") Clark rejects the wisdom of this
world in toto and constructs a completely consistent system of Christian
philosophy based on the Bible alone.
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6
Modern Myths About Christianity & Western Civilization
Philip
J. Sampson
6
Modern Myths
offers you a historical tapestry that unsettles conventional wisdom and
provides an enlightening look at the complexities of truth. When did you
last encounter a myth? Maybe watching a movie, touring a museum or
browsing the sci-fi section of your local bookstore? To contemporary men
and women, myths seem mere relics of a premodern era -- legendary stories
of capricious gods, heroic deeds and lost cities. The physical and social
anxieties that gave rise to myths have been dealt with more productively
in our century by science, government and art. Right? "Not at
all," says Philip Sampson. In 6 Modern Myths he shows that all
societies, even sophisticated and skeptical societies like ours, nurture
myths that distort both science and history to further cultural goals.
Such myths are important guides to a society's understanding of itself.
How often have you heard the story, for example, of plucky Galileo, armed
merely with a telescope and reason, doing battle with a superstitious
church only to be condemned as a heretic and harshly imprisoned? Even
though most of the "facts" commonly assumed to be true about
this story are just not so, the romanticized myth of Galileo boldly
marches forward. Sampson dispels this myth and five others -- that the
rise of Christianity led to ecological crisis, that missionaries have
oppressed native peoples, that Darwin's evolutionary ideas were embraced
by scientists but vilified by religious leaders, that the church was
responsible for persecution of witches, and that Christianity teaches the
repression of bodily pleasures -- all woven nearly inextricably into the
fabric of Christianity and Western civilization. To tease apart historical
fact from cultural fiction Sampson tells different stories, rich in
historical detail, fascinating characters and surprising twists.
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World
Views of the Western World
David Quine
“One of the best programs I have seen that
offers a clearly Christian classical education is David Quine's World
Views of the Western World, published by the Cornerstone Curriculum
Project.…World Views is a three-year program that is built largely
around the works of Francis Schaeffer. Students still read Homer,
Socrates, and Machiavelli. But these are balanced not only by Schaeffer's
works, but also by St. Augustine, Luther, and Calvin. Cornerstone's World
Views is in its first edition and has many good features in place that
make it quite usable for most home schooling mothers who don't have the
time to sit and read classical literature for fifteen to twenty hours a
week. Quine also employs a number of videos that are great teaching tools
for making history and literature come alive -- the movie Gettysburg, for
example, plus presentations by Schaeffer. World Views is academically
challenging, Christian-based, and provides a good exposure to classical
literature, history, art, and music. It is superior to almost all high
schools, as well as to the liberal arts components offered in most
colleges and universities. Any successful course material will pass the
number one litmus test for home schoolers: Is it easy for the parents to
use? Quine's plan calls for a student to spend fifteen to twenty hours a
week on the material, while a parent would spend four to seven hours in
preparation, instruction, and discussion. This kind of ratio will enable
thousands of home schooling mothers to offer an intense, academically
challenging course while keeping her sanity with all her other duties.”
- Michael Farris
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Idols for Destruction
Herbert Schlossberg
The "must-read" Christian critique of the idols of our day. Schlossberg
topples the idols of egalitarianism, pragmatism, redistributionism, materialism,
scientism, statism, and more, holding forth the gospel as the only hope against
barbarism. Crucial for college students. 335 pages.
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Universe
Next Door
A Basic Worldview Catalog
James
Sire
For any of us to be fully conscious
intellectually we should not only be able to detect the worldviews of
others but be aware of our own -- why it is ours and why in light of so
may options we think it is true. That is the fundamental premise of this
classic work. The author lays out most of the major worldviews that make
up modern thought, providing rich analysis and offering a well-thought
critique of each.
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Consequences
of Ideas
Understanding the Concepts That Shaped Our World
R.
C. Sproul
Studying the history of empirical thought helps us
understand the culture in which we live. From Plato and Augustine to
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Sproul's introduction to and analysis of
philosophers and their ideas will help you respond as a Christian to the
thinking that has shaped your world, for better or worse.
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The
Christian Worldview and Apologetics
A High School Text
Chris R. Schlect
Chris
Schlect has taught the rudiments of the Christian worldview at Logos
School for more than seven years. He developed this comprehensive syllabus
to introduce secondary students to important concepts for which almost
nothing has been written below an advanced college level. The syllabus
discusses the biblical view of reality, knowledge, and ethics, and shows
how it offers the only formidable alternative to the self-defeating
philosophies of unbelief. A systematic introduction to the works of Dr.
Cornelius Van Til is also provided. This syllabus will be most useful in a
class taught by one who is familiar with presuppositional apologetics.
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