DOUGLAS GROOTHUIS, PH.D.

By Dr. Douglas Groothuis Blaise Pascal was many things - a theological controversialist, a superb French stylist, an inventor, a...

By Dr. Douglas Groothuis An Opinionated Philosophical Dictionary Causation The world has a cause-and-effect structure. If it did not, we...

A Very Opinionated Philosophical Dictionary Antithesis A logically oppositional relationship between two concepts or propositions. A...

Having been a public speaker for over forty years, I have realized that offering an audience a lecture outline can fortify and increase...

In On Jesus (Wadsworth, 2003), I argue that Jesus was not an irrational mystic, but was a kind of philosopher who valued reason and who...

As pastors and teachers in the church seek to exposit and apply the Bible to their congregations, they need to handle wisely the moral...

Those enamored of New Age spirituality usually find in Jesus a kindred spirit. Rather than exiling Jesus to the legendary lore of...

This is excerpted from Douglas Groothuis, Truth Decay(InterVarsity Press, 2000). First, television emphasizes the moving image over...

Originally posted on 7/13/2015 What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? Just who can solve its mystery? Why should...

What difference might a typewriter make on one’s writing style; might it even affect one’s thinking itself? We are what we write, and how...

By Douglas Groothuis and Elizabeth Johnston Intellectual sobriety is rare. When pressed to think at all, many act like drunken sailors...

“If you want to know what water is, don’t ask a fish.” So goes the Chinese proverb. By extension, if you want to understand the strengths...

As the editor of a series of cultural critiques on compelling issues, Os Guinness wanted my work The Soul in Cyberspace to be “a shot...

By nature, we all avoid suffering, and suffering comes in so many varieties. We attend funerals and sob. We visit a loved one in a...

The Bible is God’s anthropology rather than man’s theology—Abraham Heschel We humans often puzzle over our own humanity, scanning our...

A recently-released video claims that the body parts of very young and recently murdered humans are auctioned off to the highest bidder...

Recently, Bill Nye, The Science Guy, remarked in a YouTube video that Christians were fools for thinking that human beings had...

Cosmology is the study of the nature and origin of the cosmos. The rare word, cosmogony, is sometimes refers to the origin of the cosmos....

Perhaps only a philosopher would muse over becoming as a noun. Everyone uses it as a verb: I am becoming old. I am becoming angry. I am...

There are many worldviews on offer, but all cannot be true, given logic and experience. One test for any worldview is whether or not it...