Category: Learn Apologetics
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Monergism.com
July 2011 is presup month at www.monergism.com. Make sure to check it out, and spend some time on the articles that are available there. There are a lot! This is an excellent way to begin feeling one’s way around the presuppositional/covenantal apologetics landscape. The site continues to be a convenient resource for me.
HT: JM…
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Van Til and Systematic Theology
…“Van Til’s apologetics may well be described as a group of original applications of some familiar Reformed doctrines. In Van Til’s view, apologetics and theology (particularly systematic theology) are very closely related: “… defense and positive statement go hand in hand.” There can be no adequate positive statement without defense against error, and vice versa. In fact, “Systematic Theology is more closely related to apologetics than are any of the other disciplines. In it we have the system of truth that we are to defend.” Thus Van Til begins the exposition of his apologetic with an outline of Reformed systematic
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A "Serious Problem" with "An Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics"
Lyndon Unger has a “SERIOUS problem” with my Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics. He expresses his concerns in the comments here. I asked him a series of questions that he has not answered, so I will go ahead and give a few of my thoughts in response to his comments. His comments are below, followed by my questions, followed by some explanation of why I asked what I did.
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…Why does Bolt attach Covenant theology to his system of apologetics?
I’m confused as this sure sounds like he’s riding a hobby horse from one field to another and
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WTS iTunes Lectures
I have found these to be quite helpful.
Apologetics Van Til, Bahnsen, Oliphint (iTunesU link)
History and Nature of Apologetics by Dr. Cornelius Van Til (iTunesU link)
Doctrine of God by Dr. Scott Oliphint (iTunesU link)
Christ and Human Thought by Dr. Cornelius Van Til (iTunesU link)
* These are all available from the Westminster Theological Seminary Resources website though you may need to create an account to download them.…
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Next 2011 Lectures Available
I posted about the NEXT 2011 conference a while back and noted that they were covering what seemed to be a basis for presuppositional apologetics. The lectures are available for download now and they will not disappoint. Jeff Purswell starts out the conference with covering the creator/creature distinction which he did very well and much in line with what Van Til espoused. Dr. Scott Oliphint had an enlightening lecture as well especially regarding the knowledge of God in the unbeliever, and D.A. Carson exegeted Acts 17 faithfully and clearly. R.C. Sproul, while a great Theologian, had some interesting things to …
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The Battle Belongs to the Lord
Just saw that K. Scott Oliphint’s “The Battle Belongs to the Lord” is on sale for 5$ at WTS right now. This book is my new favorite introductory work to covenantal apologetics, and I highly recommend it. Dr. Oliphint holds the Apologetics chair at Westminster, and is the father of a friend of the authors, Jared Oliphint, from Reformed Forum. This is a great deal, so don’t miss out! …
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Interesting Articles from Hope's Reason
The current issue of Hope’s Reason: An Apologetics Journal has two thought-provoking articles; “An Apologetic Church”
by Stephen J. Bedard, and “Apologetic Testimony from an Unlikely Source” by Mark Eckel. Check them out here.… -
Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics by C.L. Bolt
Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics
By C.L. Bolt
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics – Introduction
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 1 – There are two worldviews.
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 2 – Everyone has presuppositions.
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 3 – There is no neutrality.
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 4 – Evidence that Christianity is true.
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 5 – Arguments that Christianity is true.
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 6 – Arguments that Christianity is true refuted.
- An Informal Introduction to
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An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics – Conclusion
By C.L. Bolt
What I endeavored to accomplish in the pieces preceding this post was not to provide an exhaustive account of all things presuppositional but to grant the readers a very basic level knowledge of Van Tillian presuppositionalism also known as Covenantal Apologetics without fancy terminology or at least with definitions when technical language was used. My hopes were to write something merely from memory as opposed to turning to sources and then collecting them in a Works Cited or Bibliography. I did not mean to go back and correct much of what I wrote or to answer objections …
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An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 45 – Redemption.
By C.L. Bolt
Non-Christians suppress the truth in unrighteousness, distorting every fact. Unbelievers are both spiritually and intellectually lost, believing themselves to be final authorities with respect to their own intellectual evaluations of the world. Yet in appealing to one’s own authority one appeals to a shifting foundation that certainly does not serve as a norm. Truth itself is relative in this scheme. The standards, purpose, meaning, motivation, etc. for reasoning are completely lost in this assumption of the possibility of thought independent of God. This series has sought to show in some detail how the creaturely mind asserting its …