What is the current state of Christian philosophy in the secular university in specific and in the culture more generally?

Is Christian philosophy considered an oxymoron?

His belief in God enjoyed a renewal in academic settings and if so what

accounts for that.

We'll answer those questions and more today with our philosophy colleague Dr. Greg Gansler

current chair of the Talbot MA and Philosophy program.

Greg, welcome, so good to have you with us.

Thanks.

Greg, you spent 20 plus years serving graduate students and faculty at Yale with crew, formerly Campus Crusade for Christ.

What was that like representing Christ in a culture like existed at Yale during those 20 years?

Well, actually we had a great time. I was serving with a think

tank called the Rivendell Institute that we invented because we were looking

at a different way of doing campus ministry.

We were trying to engage the academic terrain of a secular university

as well as mentor Christians and hold forth the gospel in the context where we can.

We found the context at Yale to be in some sense fairly friendly to conversations about the things of God.

And so it wasn't openly hostile or anything like that.

Now, of course, there's plenty of disagreement about issues,

but if you're interested in philosophy,

you're used to disagreement anyway.

Now, you also taught as a regular adjunct faculty in the

philosophy department at Yale for many years. How were you received there as an outspoken Christian?

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