In the Eye of the Beholder

Summary

The sermon discusses George Berkeley's philosophical response to the growing tide of materialism and atheism in the 17th and 18th centuries. Berkeley, a bishop, aimed to rescue civilization by advocating for a philosophical model that affirmed the reality of God within a scientific paradigm, rather than solely matter. The takeaway is the importance of a worldview that acknowledges both the material and the spiritual, preventing the exclusion of God from our understanding of existence.