The Consequences of Ideas — Season 1, Episode 34: Russell
Documentary • 24 min • 1 season, 35 episodes
Episode synopsis
You don't need to be master logician to feel the weight of the question. If everything must have a cause, then what caused God, and what caused the cause that caused God? Before we go too far, we need to re-examine something about our basic premise. Does everything have to have a cause? Continuing this series on the Consequences of Ideas, Dr. Sproul examines Bertrand Russell's critiques against Christianity, and exposes the fundamental problems with those critiques.
About The Consequences of Ideas
To understand the culture in which we live, you need to be familiar with the ideas that have shaped it. In Ligonier's survey series, The Consequences of Ideas, R.C. Sproul traces the contours of Western philosophy throughout history and shows how our culture evolved to what it is today. From ancient Greek thinkers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Christian philosophers such as Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas to the shapers of modern thought such as Hume, Kant and Nietzsche, R.C. demonstrates the consequences of each of these and other important thinkers' ideas on world events, theology, the fine arts and culture, as well as our everyday lives. Listen, and you will hear echoes of their ideas in your daily conversations—especially as you witness to unbelievers.