Episode notes
Greg Ganssle has been thinking about the intersection of Christian faith and contemporary scholarship for over thirty years. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from Syracuse University in 1995, where his dissertation on God's relation to time won a Syracuse University Dissertation Award. Greg is also the author of Our Deepest Desires: How the Christian Story Fulfills Human Aspirations, Thinking about God: First Steps in Philosophy and A Reasonable God: Engaging the New Face of Atheism. He is now a professor at Biola University Talbot School of Theology.
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Chapters:
00:00:00-Intro
00:05:26-The Resurgence of Nietzsche
00:09:56-The Cultural Backdrop for Nietzsche's Work
00:19:23-Nietzsche & the Drive for Power
00:30:46-Nietzsche, Judaism, & the "Real Jesus"
00:37:14-The Death of God & Anti-Nihilism
00:57:51-Nietzsche's Transhumanism vs. Christian Art
01:19:30-Nietzsche & Eternal Recurrence
01:26:29-Is God Dead?
01:30:31-Outro