Bulwarks of Unbelief: Atheism and Divine Absence in a Secular Age
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Millions of people in the West identify as atheists. Christians often respond to this reality with proofs of God’s existence, as though rational arguments for atheism were the root cause of unbelief.
In this session, Joseph Minich will present the primary thesis of his book, Bulwarks of Unbelief, in which he argues that a felt absence of God, as experienced by the modern individual, offers a better explanation for the rise in atheism. Recent technological and cultural shifts in the modern West have produced a perceived challenge to God’s existence. As modern technoculture reshapes our awareness of reality and belief in the invisible, it in turn amplifies God’s apparent silence. In this new context, atheism is a natural result. And absent of meaning from without, we have turned within.
God has a way of confronting people with reality in judgement and salvation.
Joe standing at the kitchen island at Davenant House...LOL 🙂
Looks like I have another book to read!
It's top-shelf. Fantastic work.
Nobody wants to wait 4 minutes of silence before you start the intro. Get after your "Videographer"!
Maybe it's just the limitations of my "lizard brain", but this whole discussion seems to deccourt the power of the Holy Ghost in installing and maintaining true salvific belief in true, not nominal, not carnal, Christians about Him who became man, lived a perfect, sinless life, received my punishment on the cross, died and lived again giving me both His righteousness and conferring absolution for my sins through His sacrifice. For goodness sake Voss' and VanTill's arguments are not to convince those who are already believers in Christ Jesus, but for those who are not--to "have an answer..." Or have I completely missed the point here.
Joe is brilliant
Who put the resources into the creation to make the use of electricity, the electromagnetic spectrum, telephones, the Internet, etc, possible? The great I AM. Just further evidence that God created the world for Man to cultivate.
"Lizard brain", presumably metaphorical?
AI "knows" nothing.