Douglas Groothuis

Defending Christian Faith, October 12, 2004

 

 

GOD AND MORAL MEANING

part 2

 

 

III.       Four Defective Views of Meaning and Morality

 

A.        Four naturalist views (continued)

 

 

2.         From naturalism to nihilism (James Sire, Universe Next Door, 4^rd ed. (InterVarsity Press, 1997).

 

a.         Chance and necessity dehumanizes and impersonalizes

 

b.         The great cloud of unknowing: epistemology

 

c.         Is and ought problem

 

d.         Nihilism and objective value (Moreland)

 

·        The argument from damnation (Peter Berger, A Rumor of Angels)

 

e.         Nihilism and science

 

f.          Nihilism and persuasion

 

g.         Nihilism and livability