Greg Ganssle has been thinking about the intersection of Christian faith and contemporary scholarship for over thirty years. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from Syracuse University in 1995, where his dissertation on God's relation to time won a Syracuse University Dissertation Award. Greg is also the author of Our Deepest Desires: How the Christian Story Fulfills Human Aspirations, Thinking about God: First Steps in Philosophy and A Reasonable God: Engaging the New Face of Atheism. He is now a professor at Biola University Talbot School of Theology.

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Chapters:

00:00:00-Intro

00:05:26-The Resurgence of Nietzsche

00:09:56-The Cultural Backdrop for Nietzsche's Work

00:19:23-Nietzsche & the Drive for Power

00:30:46-Nietzsche, Judaism, & the "Real Jesus"

00:37:14-The Death of God & Anti-Nihilism

00:57:51-Nietzsche's Transhumanism vs. Christian Art

01:19:30-Nietzsche & Eternal Recurrence

01:26:29-Is God Dead?

01:30:31-Outro