{"id":878,"date":"2024-09-25T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=878"},"modified":"2024-09-25T17:53:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:53:51","slug":"why-study-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/why-study-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Study Philosophy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video I want to give an answer to that question generally by sharing my personal journey into philosophy that culminated in doing a PhD in Philosophy. I then consider why Christians specifically should not be hostile to studying philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Question of God&#8217; undergraduate text book I mention you can find at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Question-God-Introductory-Commentary-Sourcebook\/dp\/0415223873\/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Question-God&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The online NET bible is at <a href=\"https:\/\/netbible.org\/bible\/Matthew+1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/netbible.org\/bible\/Matthew+1\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Westminster seminary UK website is: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminsterseminaryuk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.westminsterseminaryuk.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Study Philosophy?\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1012865178?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video I want to give an answer to that question generally by sharing my personal journey into philosophy that culminated in doing a PhD in Philosophy. I then consider why Christians specifically should not be hostile to studying philosophy. The &#8216;Question of God&#8217; undergraduate text book I mention you can find at https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Question-God&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,15,33],"tags":[255,310,312,48,313,311],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-philosophy-of-religion","category-psychology-of-religion","category-theology","tag-analytic-philosophy","tag-born-again","tag-christianity","tag-conversion","tag-metaphysics","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}