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Classic Replay: Peter Kreeft’s argument from desire
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Classic Replay: Peter Kreeft’s argument from desire

CS Lewis said "If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world." Peter Kreeft is a philosophy professor and well known Christian thinker and writer. He defen...

Unbelievable? · Justin Brierley

March 14, 20231h 3m

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Show Notes

CS Lewis said "If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world."

Peter Kreeft is a philosophy professor and well known Christian thinker and writer. He defends the "argument from desire". Does our experience of transcendent longing indicate that there is a God to satisfy it?

Atheist philosopher Richard Norman says that the argument amounts to wish-fulfillment.

They both sat down to discuss this issue, first broadcast in 2013.

 

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