{"product_id":"philosophy-after-christ-anthony-flood-9798834791027","title":"Philosophy after Christ: Thinking God's Thoughts after Him","description":"\"Two things especially struck me . . . . One is the sincerity and passion of [Flood's] efforts over fifty years to explore various ways of understanding Christian faith. He has at various times looked to Bernard Lonergan and Gordon Clark for guidance, but he has now found a resting place in the presuppositionalism of Cornelius Van Til and Greg Bahnsen. . . . The other . . . is the exceptional learning displayed in it. Tony knows the Bible very well, and he discourses learnedly on the meaning of various Hebrew and Greek words in it. He brings to bear in his discussion a great many of the major Western philosophers, showing a detailed knowledge of their thought. If I am not convinced by Tony's main thesis . . . I nevertheless commend this acute and erudite book highly.\" From the Foreword by David Gordon, PhD, Senior Fellow, Ludwig von Mises Institute \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Christ said we're to live, not by bread alone, by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4), He didn't make an exception for philosophers. In Scripture, the philosopher has a cornucopia of divine words to feast upon as eagerly as one who hungers physically devours bread.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo pursue philosophy \u003ci\u003eafter \u003c\/i\u003eChrist the way an artist seeks to emulate the style of a master is to reflect that dependence. The price of denying it is to fall prey to one or another species of foolishness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy after Christ: Thinking God's Thoughts after Him, \u003c\/i\u003e Anthony Flood (\u003ci\u003eChrist, Capital \u0026amp; Liberty: A Polemic\u003c\/i\u003e) explores how \"vain deceit after the tradition of men\" (Colossians 2:8) has taken captive many philosophers, Christian as well as non-Christian. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo philosophize after Christ is to pursue Christ as the Wisdom of God. This requires learning what He has revealed about Himself, the cosmos, and mankind in Holy Scripture and then regimenting one's thinking and living accordingly. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt also means internalizing the Bible's \u003ci\u003eWeltanschauung\u003c\/i\u003e, our \"birthright worldview\" as created image-bearers, as the presupposition of intelligible predication, that is, of making sense of things, even our sense-making. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe effort to conform one's mind to Christ's can generate a \"philosophy of philosophy,\" or metaphilosophy, indispensable to the \"metapologetics\" that undergirds sound Christian apologetics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Part 1, Basics, Flood describes philosophizing as the unfolding of implications of the worldview which, with our linguistic capability, we inherit at birth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart 2, Dialectics, he explores the oppositions that worldviews generate and shows how non-Christian worldviews can infiltrate even the thinking of Christians, including the Catholic Bernard Lonergan and the Calvinist Gordon Clark.\u003cbr\u003ePart 3, Polemics, discusses several expressions of dialectics: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Frame's Square of Religious Opposition, on which Flood then locates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavid Ramsay Steele's atheism;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlood's defense of the transcendental argument for God's existence;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliam Vallicella's critique of Flood's metaphilosophy; and\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo books, one by Evangelicals that's silent about the worldview approach to defending the Christian faith, the other by Roman Catholics who embrace that approach, but fail to identify its non-Catholic origins.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eIf one loves the wisdom of God (the only wisdom worth seeking), then Jesus' words must constitute one's philosophical \"global positioning system.\" \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy after Christ \u003c\/i\u003eshows you what that involves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Flood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798834791027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Anthony Flood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47419727937791,"sku":"9798834791027","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3bc489bd-3ea7-49f0-8421-50c4e025e925.jpg?v=1761513471","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/philosophy-after-christ-anthony-flood-9798834791027","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}