Christocentric Philosophy

When I began getting a better grasp of Presuppositional Apologetics and transcendental arguments, I started running into a little problem. Whenever I would apply the transcendental argument against unbelief, often times I was met with some variation of this objection: “well I see no reason why a Muslim or a Jew or any of the other monotheistic religions couldn’t use the same argument you’re using to prove their own god” The issue wasn’t that I thought the objection was forceful. My standard approach was to point out that, although they resemble Christianity in some ways, at the points where these religions disagree with Christianity they begin to fall into the same philosophical problems that non-theistic worldviews fall into.  Now, don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with this approach. However, this objection got me thinking about what’s going on in the background whenever we engage with some unbelieving worldview.  Whenever we engage an unbeliever, we are engaging a v...

One of the deepest philosophical questions that has plagued human thought for ages is whether or not our existence has any meaning. There is the existential form of the question that is concerned with whether there’s a point or purpose to our existence. However, there is also the epistemological form of the question that is concerned with whether the universe is meaningful and can be known or understood. It can be argued that the two forms of the question cannot be divorced from each other, but let’s focus on the epistemological form for now. First let us think about what meaning means. What do we have in mind when we say something is meaningful? To understand this, we must understand the difference between denotation and connotation . In linguistics, denotation refers to the literal or dictionary meaning of a word or expression while connotation refers to the underlying ideas or emotions associated with the word. When we talk about meaning, we are usually referring to connotation. Whe...