Oskar Gruenwald

The Church's New Front Door

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Daniel Topf’s engaging new book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Written in clear, non-technical language accessible for students and the general public that will resonate especially with Christians and other religious believers, the book highlights advanced technologies such as AI and robotics that promise unprecedented new benefits across many fields but also pose an existential threat to humanity. Highly recommended.”

What Should Philosophy Do?

Philosophy

“Steven Yates’s What Should Philosophy Do? deserves to be read by both philosophers and non-philosophers, and especially by those who wonder whether philosophy is relevant at all in a postmodern era dominated by science and technology. Strictly speaking, philosophy does not ‘do’ anything. It is human beings who pursue philosophy as a quest for truth and love of wisdom that can encompass the central questions of human existence—not only the ‘how’ but also the ‘why?’ Philosophy, assisted by theology, is able to grapple with Francis Schaeffer’s query: ‘How should we then live?’ And the even more probing question found in Scripture: ‘What is man, that thou art mindful of him?’ Yates’s book is not only about recalling philosophy to its essential task of interrogating reality and cultural critique, but above all as Socratic dialogue. . . . This is philosophy at its best.”