Tag: Paul Copan
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Copan’s Folly
Dr. Paul Copan’s “critique” of presuppositionalism has started a minor furor over at TGC, with my response as only the first of many.
Steve Hays
Copan on Presuppositionalism
Does Presuppositionalism Begs the Question
Paul Copan on Common GroundJames Anderson
Does Presuppositionalism engage in question-begging?James White
K. Scott Oliphint
Answering Objections to Presuppositionalism… -
Questioning Copan
The Gospel Coalition is running a series on apologetics, and today’s entry was by Paul Copan, entitled “Questioning Presuppositionalism”. What struck me, while reading his take on the subject, was how superficial and inaccurate it was. He introduces Van Til, and then says that Gordon Clark supposedly “generally followed” his methodology, along with Bahnsen and Frame, and then called it “variegated”. Well, given that he’s simply wrong concerning Clark, and that Frame consciously departed from Van Til as well, I’d supposed that’s an assumption guaranteed to result in a certain conclusion, wouldn’t you? It is not the case that …