{"id":6338,"date":"2016-06-21T11:29:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T11:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/21\/peter-kreeft-on-the-benefits-of-theistic-belief\/"},"modified":"2016-06-21T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T11:29:23","slug":"peter-kreeft-on-the-benefits-of-theistic-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/21\/peter-kreeft-on-the-benefits-of-theistic-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Kreeft on the Benefits of Theistic Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> is an outstanding five-minute video by Peter Kreeft of Boston College.  (HT: J. I. Odegaard) It presents the theistic worldview and its naturalistic alternative about as clearly as is possible within a few minutes.  It doesn't argue for or against, but it does present the benefits of theism.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is in the Prager U series.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the universities of the land, including so-called Catholic universities, abdicate their authority and collapse under the weight of their own political correctness, substituting trendy nonsense and decadent junk for genuine learning, we need to build alternative centers to carry on the great traditions. <\/span><\/p>\n

There is some discussion of Kreeft in the entries referenced infra<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is an outstanding five-minute video by Peter Kreeft of Boston College.  (HT: J. I. Odegaard) It presents the theistic worldview and its naturalistic alternative about as clearly as is possible within a few minutes.  It doesn't argue for or against, but it does present the benefits of theism. It is in the Prager U … Continue reading “Peter Kreeft on the Benefits of Theistic Belief”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-atheism-and-theism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}