Sproul's survey of the ongoing impact of history's mostinfluential philosophies urges readers to take prevailing culturalmind-sets seriously. because ideas do haveconsequences.
The greatest thinkers of all time are impacting us still. Frompublic-policy decisions and current laws to world events, theology, the arts, education, and even conversations between friends, history's most influential philosophies have wrought massiveconsequences on nearly everything we see, think, and do.
Thus it is critical for Christians to understand the ideas thatare shaping them. The greater their familiarity with the streams ofthought that have saturated Western culture through the ages, thegreater their ability to influence this culture for Christ.
With The Consequences of Ideas, now in paperback, R. C.Sproul expertly leads the way for thoughtful readers. Tracing thecontours of Western philosophy from the ancients to the molders ofmodern and postmodern thought-including Plato, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, and Freud-Sproul proves that ideas are not just passing fads;they endure for generations to come and demand our seriousattention.
