Existentialism
176The Effects of Sin
15 Jan 2024
22:18¶ 68
“Yeah, it does, but you know ‘existence precedes essence.’ Isn’t that it? We come on the scene and we create ourself by our choices.”
22:30¶ 69
“That brings us back to how the world looks at history. So Adam and Eve made these choices. The Pelagians, the disciples of Finney,…”
21:31¶ 64
“On the other hand, this is not the existentialist or nihilist, “Hey, they did their thing. Why does that touch me?” Well, the thing…”
151A New Heart
2 Jan 2023
24:15¶ 98
“I mentioned romanticism, but let’s now bring in existentialism. For existentialism, as for Finney, man has no fixed nature and you make yourself by…”
24:38¶ 99
“If yesterday you chose bad things, whatever in the world that means in a world without standards, and today you choose a good thing,…”
150Doing the Right Thing
26 Dec 2022
19:32¶ 61
“So men have to set their hearts aright. They have to re-create themselves by an autonomous act of the will. How far is this…”
19:52¶ 62
“Now, Finney would have man plan ahead. I’m not so sure that Camus or Sartre would say, “Yes, play the long game. Plan for…”
109Absalom
14 Mar 2022
42:01¶ 148
“That’s another thing we should talk about sometime, the modern existentialist idea of a hero. You define yourself moment-by-moment by your choices. Past choices…”
42:26¶ 149
“I don’t know how many TV shows I’ve seen where this kind of thing is happening, and you’re absolutely right. There’s super-hero movies and…”
41:42¶ 147
“That sounds a lot like whenever villains in TV shows or movies turn good and immediately go off and kill someone else and then…”
23The Sacrifice of Isaac
7 Jun 2020
3:18¶ 10
“In the late 19th century and on into the 20th we have existentialism, and of course the existentialists protest that, “Ours is not a…”
3:40¶ 11
“But the idea since Kierkegaard has been that whatever God is, he cannot be boxed in. He cannot be constrained within the limits of…”
4:22¶ 13
“Yay. It’s simple to say, “Okay, we’re done,” but we can’t quite be done because this is where a lot of the world is…”
10Myth of Neutrality
8 Mar 2020
15:27¶ 49
“Or I could say, “Enough of this thinking! I’m going to go make an action, and that action will decide the tree” – the…”
16:56¶ 53
“Think of David Hume, for instance, or Immanuel Kant, who said, “You’re right, but that’s the solution.” That’s another story. And all our existentialist…”
26:28¶ 76
“The kinds of things that you’re talking about are the common staples of philosophy classes and communication classes and all the modern irrational existential…”