"All that you expect me to do is to make it reasonable for you to believe in God. And I should like to respond quickly by saying that that is just what I am trying to do."Why I Believe in God is a one of Van Til's most well-known essays. As one of the leading Reformed apologists of the 20th century, Van Til's argumentation possessed rare and pristine form–logic which only his unique cast of mind could fashion and array. This essay stands as a testimony to the cali...

Restaurando o texto completo da publicação original de 1972, esta coleção de ensaios anotados aborda questões sobre graça comum e sua relevância para o evangelho. Pioneiro em apologética pressuposicional, Cornelius Van Til expõe uma filosofia cristã da História; examina as perspectivas de Abraham Kuyper, Herman Hoeksema e outros no debate sobre a graça comum; e responde a críticas.

Apologética Cristã é um dos muitos escritos que Van Til desenvolveu para seus cursos ao longo de vários anos. Foi o texto básico para seu curso de introdução à apologética. A originalidade de Van Til consiste nisto: que ele procurou desenvolver uma apologética centrada em Deus, sem transigir, mas sem cortar a comunicação com os incrédulos ou recuar para um tribalismo cristão. O objetivo de Van Til era mostrar que a cosmovisão cristã é a única racional e objetivamente válida. Sem ela, nada ...

Why does evil exist? How do we explain the existence of evil? The issue of addressing the presence of evil has puzzled the human mind for centuries; it has been a dominant issue in philosophical and theological literature and discussions. Cornelius Van Til (1895-1987), perhaps the most formative apologist for historic Christian orthodoxy in the twentieth century, wrote a compelling award-winning essay in 1923 as a student at Princeton Theological Seminary on the subject entitled "Evil and ...

La chiesa ripetutamente si trova a dover ripensare il mondo intero alla luce dell’Evangelo di Cristo. Ancora oggi vogliamo dire a gran voce che per poter ben pensare, l’uomo deve partire da Dio. Una tale affermazione ha implicazioni di enorme portata per l’educazione. Come cristiani impegnati sul fronte dell’educazione prendiamo molto seriamente la responsabilità che Dio ci ha affidato. Cerchiamo nella Scrittura il motivo, il modello e lo scopo del nostro lavoro e guardiamo a coloro che ci...

Cornelius Van Til's Doctrine of God and Its Relevance for Contemporary Hermeneutics seeks to answer the question, "What does Van Til have to do with hermeneutics?" It is argued that some of the most relevant concerns in the field of contemporary hermeneutics are similar to those addressed by Van Til in the area of apologetics. Van Til's approach involved a self-conscious consistency between method and theology proper in order to reason according to the Christian worldview found in Scriptur...

Reformed Epistemology and the Structure of Knowledge: Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga on Belief develops a comparison of the epistemological formulations of Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga. Initial focus is placed on developing the extent to which Van Til’s work demonstrates a discernible theory of knowledge, and an argument is made for interpreting his epistemology as directly dependent on the conceptual resources of British Idealism. It is shown through Van Til’s app...

The Trinity and the Vindication of Christian Paradox grapples with the question of how one may hold together the ideals of systematic theology, apologetic proof, and theological paradox by building on the insights of Cornelius Van Til. Van Til developed an apologetic where one presupposes that the triune God exists, and then proves this Christian presupposition by demonstrating that philosophies that deny it are self-defeating in the specific sense that they rely on principles that only th...

An introduction into the problems of Christian philosophy. It focuses on the philosophical system of Dr. Cornelius Van Til, which in turn is founded upon the presuppositions of an infallible revelation in the Bible and the necessity of Christian theology for all philosophy.Basic to this study is the belief that presuppositions of human thought in every field must be basically one in order to arrive at any concept which both validates biblical faith and human knowledge. The sovereig...