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Renewing Your Mind

Immanuel Kant

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 20 January 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Immanuel Kant changed the way many people think about God. Was it a change for the better or for the worse? Today, R.C. Sproul considers how Kant's philosophy brought about one of the most significant revolutions in world history.

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In the Middle Ages, theology was the Queen of the Sciences and philosophy was regarded as her

0:05.2

handmaiden.

0:06.3

And there was a certain intellectual credibility to the truth claims of Christianity.

0:12.1

But since the Kantian critique of the traditional arguments

0:15.8

for the existence of God, for example, philosophy has been liberated from theology

0:22.0

and the impact of theology and the church has declined dramatically in the

0:28.4

last 200 years. Each Saturday we have been reminded that how we think matters that ideas have consequences and therefore a study of philosophical thought

0:45.3

helps us trace how the Western world and society came to embrace the ideas of

0:50.9

the present day.

0:52.7

And today on renewing your mind, R.C. Sproll will introduce us to one of the most influential

0:58.2

and controversial Enlightenment thinkers, a manual can't.

1:03.0

R.C. Sproll sought to help Christians know what they believe and why they believe it.

1:08.0

And a study in philosophy shines a light on ways our own thinking may have been influenced by the world rather than

1:15.9

the word.

1:16.9

You can own Dr. Sproll's entire overview of philosophy on a special edition DVD along with a digital study guide when you give a gift of any

1:26.0

amount at renewing your mind.org. So who was Emmanuel Kant and why has his influence been so significant?

1:34.6

Here's R.C. Sprawl.

1:38.6

When historians and cultural analysts look at our contemporary civilization. They frequently use words to

1:46.4

describe this situation that are prefaced by the word post. post. We hear this generation called the post-modern era or the post-Christian era or perhaps even more frequently the post-Contian era.

2:12.0

The reason for that description is that all theoretical thought since

2:18.0

Emmanuel Kant has to be understood in light of the groundwork that he achieved in the 18th century.

2:27.0

And I think there's a link between post-Contianism and what we call the post-Christian era because Emmanuel Kant more than any

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