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Cornelius Van Til : an analysis of his thought / John M. Frame.

By: Frame, John M, 1939-
Contributor(s): Van Til, Cornelius, 1895-1987
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Phillipsburg, N.J. : P&R Pub., [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: xii, 463 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0875522203 (cloth); 0875522459 (pbk.)Subject(s): Van Til, Cornelius, 1895-1987 | Apologetics -- History -- 20th century | Presbyterian Church -- Doctrines -- History -- 20th century | Reformed Church -- Doctrines -- History -- 20th century | Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 230/.51/092 LOC classification: BX9225.V37 | F74 1995Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-452) and inde xes.
Contents:
pt. 1. Introductory considerations : Starting point -- Van Til's life and character -- Van Til's place in history -- pt. 2. The metaphysics of knowledge : God : self-contained fullness and absolute personality -- The Trinity -- The sovereignty of God -- Analogical knowledge -- The Clark controversy -- Revelation -- Presuppositions -- The primacy of the intellect -- Logic -- The analogical system -- Evidence -- pt. 3. The ethics of knowledge : Antithesis -- Common grace -- Rationalism and irrationalism -- pt. 4. The argument for Christianity : The traditional method : the church fathers -- The traditional method : Thomas Aquinas -- The traditional method : Joseph Butler -- The traditional method : Edward J. Carnell -- Spiral argument -- Reasoning by presupposition -- Apologetics in action -- pt. 5. Van Til as critic : Greek philosophy and scholasticism -- Immanuel Kant and Karl Barth -- Herman Dooyeweerd -- pt. 6. Conclusions : Van Til's successors -- Van Til and our future.

"Volume in celebration of Cornelius Van Til's one hundredth birthday, May 3, 1995"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-452) and inde xes.

pt. 1. Introductory considerations : Starting point -- Van Til's life and character -- Van Til's place in history -- pt. 2. The metaphysics of knowledge : God : self-contained fullness and absolute personality -- The Trinity -- The sovereignty of God -- Analogical knowledge -- The Clark controversy -- Revelation -- Presuppositions -- The primacy of the intellect -- Logic -- The analogical system -- Evidence -- pt. 3. The ethics of knowledge : Antithesis -- Common grace -- Rationalism and irrationalism -- pt. 4. The argument for Christianity : The traditional method : the church fathers -- The traditional method : Thomas Aquinas -- The traditional method : Joseph Butler -- The traditional method : Edward J. Carnell -- Spiral argument -- Reasoning by presupposition -- Apologetics in action -- pt. 5. Van Til as critic : Greek philosophy and scholasticism -- Immanuel Kant and Karl Barth -- Herman Dooyeweerd -- pt. 6. Conclusions : Van Til's successors -- Van Til and our future.

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