Loving Wisdom Quotes

“To blithely say “it could have happened” that a life-permitting, life-producing, and life-sustaining universe is the product of chance is naive. It fails to take seriously all that is required to get from “zero” to a single-celled organism to Homo sapiens.”
― Paul Copan, Loving Wisdom: A Guide to Philosophy and Christian Faith

“Every philosophy of life will have an anthropology—a stance on what a human is. Do we interpret the human being through the grid of economics and class struggle (Marxism), biology and the struggle to survive (naturalistic Darwinism), or suffering produced by attachment to transitory things (Buddhism)? Are we bundles of experiences, streams of consciousness?”
― Paul Copan, Loving Wisdom: A Guide to Philosophy and Christian Faith

“Some are convinced that the universe has no point. The cosmos is indifferent, deaf to our cries and oblivious to our tears. Human beings are nothing more than molecules in motion—biological organisms trying to survive and reproduce but destined to eventual extinction along with all else in the universe. Is that the story we should believe?”
― Paul Copan, Loving Wisdom: A Guide to Philosophy and Christian Faith

“I greatly appreciate the work of Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga. He has observed that many academicians have a disdain for the term popularizer. However, he urges Christian philosophers not to leave their work “buried away in professional journals” but to make it available to the broader Christian community. If they don’t connect their work to the life of the church, then they “neglect a crucial and central part of their task as believing philosophers.”
― Paul Copan, Loving Wisdom: A Guide to Philosophy and Christian Faith