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R.C. Sproul gives one of his sharpest analogies: if I distinguish your body from your soul, no harm done. If I separate them, I've killed you. Faith and science can be distinguished — but never separated. All truth that is truly true meets at the top.
This clip is from The Consequences of Ideas, a 35-lesson video course taught by Dr. R.C. Sproul that walks through the entire history of Western philosophy from a Christian worldview. From the pre-Socratics and Plato through Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche, and the modern existentialists — Sproul shows how the great philosophers have shaped our culture's deepest assumptions about truth, beauty, meaning, and morality.
What this course will do for you:
- Trace the ideas that built — and are now unbuilding — the Western world
- Show how Christianity has answered each major philosophical challenge in history
- Equip you (or your students) to engage modern skepticism with confidence and clarity
- Connect philosophy, theology, and everyday life in a way that actually sticks
Designed for high school students, homeschool families, college students, and adult learners. No prior philosophy background required — Sproul makes 2,500 years of thought accessible and even enjoyable.
R.C. Sproul gives one of his sharpest analogies: if I distinguish your body from your soul, no harm done. If I separate them, I've killed you. Faith and science can be distinguished — but never separated. All truth that is truly true meets at the top.
This clip is from The Consequences of Ideas, a 35-lesson video course taught by Dr. R.C. Sproul that walks through the entire history of Western philosophy from a Christian worldview. From the pre-Socratics and Plato through Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche, and the modern existentialists — Sproul shows how the great philosophers have shaped our culture's deepest assumptions about truth, beauty, meaning, and morality.
What this course will do for you:
- Trace the ideas that built — and are now unbuilding — the Western world
- Show how Christianity has answered each major philosophical challenge in history
- Equip you (or your students) to engage modern skepticism with confidence and clarity
- Connect philosophy, theology, and everyday life in a way that actually sticks
Designed for high school students, homeschool families, college students, and adult learners. No prior philosophy background required — Sproul makes 2,500 years of thought accessible and even enjoyable.
