Does Your View of Reality Shape Your Life? The Hidden Battle Shaping Culture – Episode 49

In this and the next podcast, we turn our conversation to points of application, discussing some of the ways the Realism/Nominalism debate is having a dramatic impact on all we think and do.

In these episodes we discuss:

• If beauty is really in the eye of the beholder
• Can there be justice for all if we are nominalists
• How these ideas shape the work of physicians and therapists
• The nominalistic assumption underlying Critical Theory
• Why people say “That’s true for you but not for me.”
• How we got to the point of believing there are more than two genders
• Nominalism and abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia
• If there is one correct interpretation of a passage of Scripture (or any other document, such as the Constitution)?
• How nominalism cuts the heart out of Christian theology (and is supposed in Islamic theology)
• What it means to discuss “family” without a realist understanding
• Some questions that help people understand the limits of their Nominalist views

Resources mentioned during our conversation:

• The first episode in this series: #45 – What Makes Things What They Are? The Realist/Nominalist Debate, Part 1
• The second episode in the series: #46 – Good Reasons to Believe in Things We Can’t See: The Realism/Nominalism Debate, Part 2
• The third episode in this series: #47: The Beliefs, Distinctions, and Cultural Impact of Nominalism: The Realism/Nominalism Debate, Part 3
• The fourth episode in this series: #48: God, Universals, and the Nature of Reality: The Realism/Nominalism Debate, Part 4 (with special guest Paul Gould, Ph.D) – Thinking Christianly
• J.P. Moreland, Finding Quiet: My Struggle of Overcoming Anxiety and the Practices that Brought Peace
• Thinking Christianly Podcast – #19: Finding Quiet When Experiencing Anxiety and Depression
• Pitirim Sorokin, The Crisis of Our Age (archive edition)

Recommended resources:

• J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview