The Dominance of the Left Hemisphere and the Shutting Down of the Right: A Critique of Western Culture

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This chapter explores the dominance of the left hemisphere in Western culture and its impact on our perception of certainty and possibility. The speakers also critique scientism for ignoring phenomena beyond scientific explanation.

The dominant narrative is that Western culture is headed for ever greater levels of atheism, agnosticism, or at least departure from belief in the Christian God. Andy Crouch returns from his sabbatical to question this narrative. He points out that the dominant secular worldview of the West - deterministic, rationalistic, and reductionist - is starting to run on empty. Can this lead to a greater hunger for the Christian God? Curtis and Andy examine what Christians would need to do to meet this hunger, including reexamining our own understanding of the Gospel itself.

The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World by Ian McGilchrist

At the Origins of Modern Atheism by Michael J. Buckley

The One, the Three, and the Many: God, Creation, and the Culture of Modernity by Colin Gunton