Immanuel Kant
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible to know that something is true if we've never experienced it for ourselves? Today, R.C. Sproul expresses how Immanuel Kant's answer to this question brought about one of the most significant revolutions in the history of ideas.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | In the Middle Ages, theology was the queen of the sciences, and philosophy was regarded as her |
| 0:05.2 | handmaiden, and there was a certain intellectual credibility to the truth claims of Christianity. |
| 0:13.0 | But since the Kantian critique of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, for example, |
| 0:20.2 | philosophy has been liberated from theology, and the impact |
| 0:24.9 | of theology and the church has declined dramatically in the last 200 years. |
| 0:37.4 | How we think matters, as we'll discover this week, ideas |
| 0:41.3 | ideas have consequences. |
| 0:44.3 | That's why a study of philosophical thought helps us to trace how the Western world and society |
| 0:50.3 | came to embrace the ideas of the present day. |
| 0:53.3 | And today on renewing your mind, |
| 0:55.0 | R. C. Sprawl introduces us |
| 0:57.0 | to one of the most influential and controversial |
| 1:00.0 | Enlightenment thinkers, Emmanuel Kant. |
| 1:04.0 | Throughout his ministry, Dr. Sprawl sought to help Christians |
| 1:07.0 | know what they believe and why they believe it. |
| 1:10.0 | And a study in philosophy shines a light on ways our own things to help Christians know what they believe and why they believe it. |
| 1:16.4 | And a study in philosophy shines a light on ways our own thinking may have been influenced by the world rather than the word. |
| 1:20.1 | You can own his entire overview of philosophy on a special edition DVD, along with the |
| 1:25.8 | companion book and a digital study guide when you give a |
| 1:29.2 | donation at renewingyourmind.org. So who was Emmanuel Khan? And why has his influence been so |
| 1:36.4 | significant? Here's Dr. Sprawl. When historians and cultural analysts look at our contemporary civilization, they frequently |
| 1:48.4 | use words to describe the situation that are prefaced by the word post. |
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