Early Christianity and the Rise of Humanism

[Buzzardhut]

01 - The Roman Age & Early Christianity


02 - The Middle Ages, Christian Content, and Papalism


03 - The Renaissance, Art, Humanism, and No Absolutes


04 - The Reformation from High Church


05 - The French Revolution, Slavery, and Industrialization


06 - The Scientific Age, Loss of Morals, and Authoritarianism


07 - Non Reasoning, Pessimism, and Self-Centeredness


08 - The Age of Fragmentation & Chance


09 - Despair, Personal Peace, Affluence, Apathy, the Leftist Movement, Arbitrary Law, & Abortion
(how socialism is a Christian heresy)


10 - Post Industrialism, Elitism, Geneticism, Arbitrary Law, & No Absolutes
(mass media and legislative manipulation)


11 - The Desperation of Humanism


12 - The Dangers of Social Interventionism


13 - The Necessary Final Choices

[GodwithUS]

I have always appreciated Francis Shaeffers contributions on showing historically how cultures throughout history have disintegrated. And how important the Gospel really is.

[Deepcallstodeep]

Hey Buzz, I got the first link to work yesterday (Rome) and it was wonderful... I want to watch the rest but I can't get the site to open. Do I just need to wait & try later?

Do these all come from one documentary?

I was thinking they might make an interesting small group study.

[Buzzardhut]

Hey Buzz, I got the first link to work yesterday (Rome) and it was wonderful... I want to watch the rest but I can't get the site to open. Do I just need to wait & try later?

Do these all come from one documentary?

I was thinking they might make an interesting small group study.

They are all opening for me
I found it's easier using Internet Explorer
and it requires Flash version 9

[jean]

Thanks for this very good videos.This exactly are the materials needed to evangelize catholics,though it will take time to explain to my mother it is in the history that,explains the rise of false religion Roman catholism.I am setlling for a printed material,but God gave me an even better teaching material in audio and visual form.When it rains it pours.

[Anddra]

A strong message that I have taken from this is the danger of apathy and too big government.

[His Bride]

I'm almost done with the series. It's been very enlightening. Thanks Buzz.

[mercyandgrace]

Websters:

Individualistic and critical spirit, and emphasis on secular concerns.

A philosophy that usually rejects supernaturalism and stresses an individual's dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason.

My interpretation: Following one's own desires instead of God's desires.

[txmomof3]

This is a great question!! I had started working on my PhD in Nursing a few years ago and dropped out after 2 semesters because "Humanism" was the guiding "religion" in the program. To me, humanism is the belief that humans can control our own destiny by manipulation of ourselves, our environment and our world. It is the belief that we are the ultimately authority over the earth and it is absolutely imperative that everyone else take up this belief in order for the earth to survive. It is the guiding force behind globalism, the green movement, organizations such as PETA and the Sierra Club, and government initiatives such as smoking bans and laws that govern what restaurants can serve.

[ron4Jesus]

Great video Buzz, I sent this to family thanks .

[><>KarateMom<><]

Buzz, I really appreciate you posting this video! I saw the first one on Humanism and I was blown away by the way he presented this. This man speaks on the humanist level...his intelligence and philosophical tone makes it almost seem as if he is one of them (humanist philosopher), but yet explains that humanism is wrong and then all of a sudden...comes out and talks about the Bible and its truths. What a guy!

Look, please tell me who this man is. I want to send the video to my dad because he is wrapped up tight in humanistic philosophy...and thinks he is so right and we Christians are delusional. I am hoping that you will tell me this man used to be a humanist philosopher turned Christian...now THAT would get my dad's attention...I think.

Please get back with me soon on who this man is. Thanks!

[Buzzardhut]

Buzz, I really appreciate you posting this video! I saw the first one on Humanism and I was blown away by the way he presented this. This man speaks on the humanist level...his intelligence and philosophical tone makes it almost seem as if he is one of them (humanist philosopher), but yet explains that humanism is wrong and then all of a sudden...comes out and talks about the Bible and its truths. What a guy!

Look, please tell me who this man is. I want to send the video to my dad because he is wrapped up tight in humanistic philosophy...and thinks he is so right and we Christians are delusional. I am hoping that you will tell me this man used to be a humanist philosopher turned Christian...now THAT would get my dad's attention...I think.

Please get back with me soon on who this man is. Thanks!

The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian Worldview
(5 Volume Set) (Paperback)

Volume 1
*The God Who Is There
*Escape From Reason
*He Is There and He Is Not Silent
*Back to Freedom and Dignity

Volume 2
*Genesis in Space and Time
*No Final Conflict
*Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History
*Basic Bible Studies
*Art and the Bible

Volume 3
*No Little People
*True Spirituality
*The New Super Spirituality
*Two Contents, Two Realities

Volume 4
*The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century
*The Church Before the Watching World
*The Mark of the Christian
*Death in the City
*The Great Evangelical Disaster

Volume 5
*Pollution and the Death of Man
*How Should We Then Live?
*Whatever Happened to the Human Race?
*A Christian Manifesto

[Robert]

Humanism: exalting the created over the creator. Or, as I like to call it....


ARE YOU NUTS??!!!

[turtle]

This is amazing.

I mean lets face it the humanist new age thinkers of our time would never give 2 seconds of their time to listen to someone like a John Hagee or any of the other preachers who simply preach the Word.

But this guy is coming across on a lvl that these high thinkers could only reject out of shear petulance and a real unwillingness to find out what the truth really is.

cause he explains the absurdity of humanism in clear and incontrovertible terms.

[><>KarateMom<><]

The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian Worldview
(5 Volume Set) (Paperback)

Volume 1
*The God Who Is There
*Escape From Reason
*He Is There and He Is Not Silent
*Back to Freedom and Dignity

Volume 2
*Genesis in Space and Time
*No Final Conflict
*Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History
*Basic Bible Studies
*Art and the Bible

Volume 3
*No Little People
*True Spirituality
*The New Super Spirituality
*Two Contents, Two Realities

Volume 4
*The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century
*The Church Before the Watching World
*The Mark of the Christian
*Death in the City
*The Great Evangelical Disaster

Volume 5
*Pollution and the Death of Man
*How Should We Then Live?
*Whatever Happened to the Human Race?
*A Christian Manifesto

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Thank you Buzz
I sent my dad an e-mail with the link.
Praying he really listens and lets it soak in.

[frodo82801]

The ironic part about humanism focusing on humans instead of God is that they are also the ones who devalue human life at every turn. Those at the ends of the bell curve of usefulness, babies in the womb and the elderly, are not given much value. Animals are given equal footing with humans. They expect the government to take care of people in need, yet ignore the dismal results of such intervention and don't become personally involved.

[His Bride]

I always think of humanism as man on the throne that belongs to the Lord alone.

[Rich Indeed]

I'm only on the fourth one, but so far, these are wonderful looks into Christian History. Thanks, Buzz!!! A couple of questions for you...

1) I would love to download the videos so I can watch them on my pc (or ipod, if possible) when not connected to the internet. Do you know if it is possible for me to do that without a membership?

2) For some reason, the voice is not quite synchronized with the video when I play them. Do you know of any tips to resolve that?

3) Who is the host? He seems very knowledgeable!!

[Buzzardhut]

I'm only on the fourth one, but so far, these are wonderful looks into Christian History. Thanks, Buzz!!! A couple of questions for you...

1) I would love to download the videos so I can watch them on my pc (or ipod, if possible) when not connected to the internet. Do you know if it is possible for me to do that without a membership?

joining and downloading should be free

2) For some reason, the voice is not quite synchronized with the video when I play them. Do you know of any tips to resolve that?

I might be able to fix that by re-encoding the videos

3) Who is the host? He seems very knowledgeable!!

Francis Schaeffer

[mercyandgrace]

Anyone else watch the videos?

I watched them.

Very thought provoking.

Thanks for sharing, Buzz.