Category: Van Til and Presuppositionalism
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Two Senses of ‘Presupposition’ in Van Til and in General
Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the Faith, 4th ed., p. 279: "Thus the truth of Christianity appears to be the immediately indispensable presupposition of the fruitful study of nature." My gloss: The fruitful study of nature presupposes the truth of Christianity. It is a fact that we study nature, and it is a fact…
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Van Til on an Absolutely Certain Proof of Christianity
Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the Faith, 4th ed., p. 381: The best, the only, the absolutely certain proof of the truth of Christianity is that unless its truth be presupposed,there is no proof of anything. Van Til's claim, to employ some Kantian jargon, is that the truth of Christianity is a condition of…
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God, the Cosmos, Other Minds: In the Same Epistemological Boat?
Tony Flood has gone though many changes in his long search for truth. He seems to have finally settled down in Van Til's presuppositionalism. Tony writes, God, the cosmos, and a plurality of minds other than one’s own are in the same epistemological boat. [. . .] To be skeptical about one but not the…
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Van Til and Romans 1:18-20
I tip my hat to David Bagwill for recommending that I read Cornelius Van Til. So I sprang for the fourth edition of The Defense of the Faith, with Oliphint's annotations, P & R Publishing, 2008. Van Til's presuppositionalism is intriguing even if in places preposterous. Having discussed Romans 1:18 a couple of time before…