#277 There are No New Questions! Connecting with Church History, with Douglas Groothuis
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Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 24 November 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Dr. Doug Groothius joins the podcast to talk about the influence of Blaise Pascal who is famous for coming up with “Pascal’s Wager.” We talk about the importance of church history, and how many of the ideas and questions posed by progressive Christianity have already been thought through and dealt with.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness, and truth. |
| 0:20.3 | And this is the final episode of the year. |
| 0:23.3 | So long-time listeners of our podcast know that every December I take a sabbatical. I don't write |
| 0:29.4 | articles. I don't produce any kind of content online on the podcast or anything else. |
| 0:35.5 | And so this is our last episode of the year, but we've got |
| 0:38.2 | some really exciting things coming because we're actually going to be tearing down this studio |
| 0:42.5 | and rebuilding a brand new studio that we will probably, hopefully be able to reveal to you |
| 0:48.4 | toward the end of January. We have a couple episodes that we'll put out before that that we've |
| 0:53.0 | already recorded here, |
| 0:58.8 | but I'm very excited for you to see the new set, which we are really hoping to get more in-person guests for you. |
| 0:59.9 | If you're one of those that watches on YouTube, if you're listening on audio platforms, it won't |
| 1:04.2 | affect you at all. |
| 1:05.2 | But I love this episode that I recorded with Doug Grohites, who is an amazing philosopher, |
| 1:12.8 | a theologian, and we're going to be talking about Blaise Pascal. |
| 1:14.6 | And one of the things I love to do in equipping the church to stay on track with historic |
| 1:19.8 | Christianity is to connect us with church history, and in particular figures throughout church |
| 1:26.2 | history that have been very influential. And today we're |
| 1:28.3 | going to be talking about Blaise Pascal and what's famously known as Pascal's Wager. But there were so |
| 1:33.7 | many highlights in this episode. We talked about Pascal's defense of original sin, the idea that |
| 1:39.5 | humans are born inherently sinful in our nature, which is something that progressive Christianity |
| 1:45.5 | often tries to redefine or get rid of. We talked a little bit about postmodernism. |
| 1:50.3 | One of the things I love that we got to talk about was something called natural theology. |
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