{"id":44,"date":"2023-07-07T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T08:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/?p=44"},"modified":"2023-07-07T08:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T08:10:57","slug":"mortimer-adlers-apologetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/2023\/07\/07\/mortimer-adlers-apologetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortimer Adler&#8217;s Apologetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-45\" src=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2023\/07\/Mortimer-Adler-Truth-in-Religion-Coexist-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2023\/07\/Mortimer-Adler-Truth-in-Religion-Coexist-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2023\/07\/Mortimer-Adler-Truth-in-Religion-Coexist-330x190.jpg 330w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2023\/07\/Mortimer-Adler-Truth-in-Religion-Coexist.jpg 651w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The late philosopher Mortimer Adler (d. 2001), who wrote the popular <em>How to Read a Book<\/em>, was the chairman of the board of editors of the <em>Encyclopedia Britannica<\/em> and was the man behind the <em>Great Books<\/em> series that came out in the early 1950&#8217;s.\u00a0 He penned <em>Truth in Religion:\u00a0 The Plurality of Religions and the Unity of Truth<\/em> in 1990.\u00a0 Adler points out, &#8220;If the religions of Far Eastern origins do not claim to be supernatural knowledge, based of divine revelation, then they are theoretical or moral philosophies masquerading as religions.&#8221;\u00a0 Adler rejected polytheism and non-theism.\u00a0 He said that the existence of a supreme being could be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Please support us on #Patreon to see our latest videos &#8220;Mortimer Adler&#8217;s Apologetic&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Van Damme vs. Van Til&#8221; &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/TrueTruthProductions\">https:\/\/patreon.com\/TrueTruthProductions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, included is my paper &#8220;Apologetics 101&#8221; with helpful discussion questions (8 pages).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late philosopher Mortimer Adler (d. 2001), who wrote the popular How to Read a Book, was the chairman of the board of editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica and was the man behind the Great Books series that came out in the early 1950&#8217;s.\u00a0 He penned Truth in Religion:\u00a0 The Plurality of Religions and the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/2023\/07\/07\/mortimer-adlers-apologetic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mortimer Adler&#8217;s Apologetic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}