The God Who Is There

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The God Who Is There

• Francis A. Schaeffer

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Review / Quiz

• Absolutes imply what?

Antithesis If you have A, it is not non-A
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Review / Quiz

• What do you know about Hegel?

Thesis Antithesis ? Synthesis
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Review / Quiz

• What do you know about Kierkegaard?

Leap of faith
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Review / Quiz

• What do you know about Jaspers?

Swiss Final experience
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Review / Quiz

• What do you know about Sartre?

French Absurd universe Authenticate by act of will
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Review / Quiz

• What do you know about Heidegger?

German Feeling of dread / angst
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Review / Quiz

• What do you know about
• logical positivism?

Input from outside / senses is data
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Review / Quiz

• What do you know about
• Deconstructionism and postmodernism?

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Do you see it?

• Under the Cover of Islam, The New York Times
  (11/18/2004)
• Moral Suicide, à la Wolfe, The New York Times
  (11/16/2004)

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Under the Cover of Islam

• Which brings me back to the question of why I, an
  independent-minded woman, bother with Islam.
  Religion supplies a set of values, including
  discipline, that serve as a counterweight to the
  materialism of life in the West. I could have
  become a runaway materialist, a robotic mall rat
  who resorts to retail therapy in pursuit of
  fulfillment. I didn't. That's because religion
  introduces competing claims. It injects a tension
  that compels me to think and allows me to avoid
  fundamentalisms of my own.
• Islam today has deep flaws, and I know saying so
  makes me a blasphemer in the eyes of countless
  Muslims. C'est la vie. If they move beyond
  emotion, they'll come to appreciate that for the
  rationalists among us, religion can be a godsend.
• Irshad Manji is the author of "The Trouble with
  Islam A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith.''

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The Line of Despair
Change in the concept of truth
philosophy
art
music
general culture
theology
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The Second StepArt

• Doorway into the line Impressionists
• Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne
• Picasso
• Mondrian
• Dada, Marcel Duchamp, the happenings, the
  environments

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Impressionism

• The impressionist style of painting is
  characterized chiefly by concentration on the
  general impression produced by a scene or object
  and the use of unmixed primary colors and small
  strokes to simulate actual reflected light.
• Impressionism, French Impressionnisme, a major
  movement, first in painting and later in music,
  that developed chiefly in France during the late
  19th and early 20th centuries. Impressionist
  painting comprises the work produced between
  about 1867 and 1886 by a group of artists who
  shared a set of related approaches and
  techniques. The most conspicuous characteristic
  of Impressionism was an attempt to accurately and
  objectively record visual reality in terms of
  transient effects of light and colour. The
  principal Impressionist painters were Claude
  Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro,
  Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin,
  and Frédéric Bazille, who worked together,
  influenced each other, and exhibited together
  independently. Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne also
  painted in an Impressionist style for a time in
  the early 1870s. The established painter Édouard
  Manet, whose work in the 1860s greatly influenced
  Monet and others of the group, himself adopted
  the Impressionist approach about 1873.
• WebMuseum

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Van Gogh (1853 1890)

• Dutch
• Tried to make a new religion, but quarreled with
  Gauguin and failed
• Committed suicide

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Van Gogh (1853 1890)
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Van Gogh (1853 1890)
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Gauguin (1848 1903)

• Knew Van Gogh
• Went to Tahiti (noble savage)
• What? Whence? Whither? Painting
• Tried to commit suicide

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Gauguin (1848 1903)
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Cézanne (1839 1906)

• Basic geometrical form

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Cézanne (1839 1906)
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Picasso (1881 1973)

• Cubism
• So abstract that there is a loss of
  communication.

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Picasso (1881 1973)
Woman in an armchair
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Mondrian (1872 1944)

• Developed Picassos style to an extreme
  conclusion
• Horizontals and verticals

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Mondrian (1872 1944)
Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
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Dada, Marcel Duchamp, the happenings, the
environments

• Dada ? chance
• Poems created by putting cut-out words in a hat
  and picking them out by chance
• Marcel Duchamp is high-priest of destruction
• Happenings you are in the picture

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Marcel Duchamp
Nude descending a stairway
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Christian Response

• Know and test the spirit of our times
• Dont laugh or feel superior
• Show compassion