This is from Theodore Dalrymple, August 31, 2005, in a front page magazine article.

And Doug Wilson's quotation of Theodore Dalrymple. It came.

This is from Theodore Dalrymple. It's from the front page magazine August 31st 2005.

But there's an excellent quote that I would recommend to you by Theodore Dalrymple.

Welcome back, and Doug, if you could, I would love for you to read that quote that I mentioned by Theodore

He closed the essay by intimating that he was still working out his views on whether it's worth continuing to argue for the biblical definition of marriage. Dalrymple assured his readers that he's among those who believe it's biblically and theologically clear that marriage was created and ordained by God for the union of male and female, but he also encouraged them to humbly acknowledge the limitations of our knowledge and recognize the possibility that we are mistaken.

And so you have not only the totalitarian tyranny, but then what they do is they force you to believe lies. Do I have to read Dalrymple again? I almost feel like I do at times, to be honest with you. Because, yeah, it just has to...

But he's also a sincere believer. He studies theology. And he's very much influenced by the Cappadocian fathers. And so when we look at John of Damascus in the stream of Christian history, we think of him as a stalwart of Chalcedonian Christology and Nicene Trinitarianism.

But furthermore one of the things that had happened was the writings of Aristotle had come over into Europe and that came through the Muslim influence where there was translation and my recollection is that Thomas obtained Aristotelian writings by having them translated from Arabic into into Latin so he's not even dealing with Aristotle in terms of a sort of Greek writings or manuscripts there he's dealing with them through layers of translation and he's trying to take that and so he starts this idea of Aristotle being the philosopher and so the influence that he has of encouraging people to think of Aristotle as this source of truth and to put it side -by -side with Scripture is a significant change earlier on in the earlier Middle Ages you had Augustine as sort of a very important figure from you know the four and five hundreds into the future of the church and what happened is there's also sort of a connecting of Plato in the in the church so you have sort of a platonic thought trying to take a rationalism without Scripture and put that side -by -side with with the Scripture and so you see that with with Thomas you have him taking experience as opposed to just reason trying to take experience and what you might call empiricism and put it side -by -side with Scripture and that is there's another school that had to kind of try to the old things might call them the mystics or irrationalists who had tried to take things and make it so that personal experience or feelings or some sort of a super rationalism with the what are called the pseudo Dionysius writings.

Um i i guess if that's the context okay but sometimes following context with theodore's.

Run to his social media diary to receive consolation likes for either playing victim, mock Theodore, or to incite his fanboys who are already acting like Democrats when Hillary lost the election just because Theodore calls Arminianism heresy.

But oftentimes what we do see is that logic overpowered and was exalted over and above Scripture and so forth. Abelard believed that theology should involve rigorous thinking and that it necessarily required a deeply critical attitude when inquiring of the Scriptures and these questions.

While it seems not as severe as some departures, Dr. Dolezal highlights in his book, wondering if he considers this view to still be compatible with classical theism. In an article I read, I wasn't sure if Dr. Dolezal's view was in reference when it stated, Certain radical and rationalistic applications of simplicity drive the thinker toward an arid and lonely Unitarianism and make him squelch a fully engaged and dynamic interaction with the data of scripture.

Who? Sat at the teaching of our guest today at Munster Bible College in Cork, Ireland and his name is dr Theodore J cable Who earned his PhD at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary he's a former ardent atheist and now he's a professor of philosophy and apologetics at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and The general editor of the apologetic study Bible.

And especially after reading a book by, let's say Roger Scruton, let's say on leftists, on postmodernists. I would think that Carl Truman is one of those postmodernists. One of the French deconstructionists or something.

Reading the life of Samuel Davies is a practical enterprise not something theoretical or archaeological. Remembering him is to honor one who stood fast for the central important truths of the Christian religion.

This was at the same time when. The analytic philosophers and the continental philosophers and broadly speaking, you can say the English and British and American philosophers versus the Western European philosophers, let's say, at the same time where all these philosophers were questioning universal truth, absolute truth.

Philosophic knowledge can be attained by the rigorous application of reason through a process of dialectic. And so you can see some of this in the 17th chapter of the Book of Acts, where Paul is invited to come and speak to the philosophers of the Areopagus.

The article was called, yes, Jeffrey Waddington, Divine Simplicity, Don't Think of God Without It. Okay, there you go. So, I do not pretend to have wrestled with all the various challenges brought against this doctrine, but the doctrine is sound nonetheless.

It's TSL you will call strange. He would be close to the third and he's very open. His attempt though look like in people's personal lives the sacred in that sense. So Peterson is no Ideological I've mentioned you have a scientific secularism and this is where a new atheist and many other secularists who say what?