Tag: Thomism
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"Getting to God" – Thomistic Misconceptions of Van Tilian Presuppositionalism (Updated)
David Gadbois from Green Baggins wrote the following in a comment on Fides, Ratio, et Mysterium:
…I’m definitely in the camp that doesn’t believe that Christianity is transcendentally necessary. I think the VanTilian presuppositionalists overreached in trying to make Christianity, as a package deal, into a transcendental necessity. The various transcendental arguments that have been offered really only get you as far as God’s existence, a personal and just God, not [sic] doubt, but really nothing beyond what is revealed in general revelation. God’s acts of redemption in time and space, as recorded in special revelation, were
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Mr. White, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Black V
These posts contain lengthy quotations from Defense of the Faith, by Cornelius Van Til – this post will deal with pages 319-323. In the previous post, Van Til dealt with the unbeliever’s state before God, his self-deception, suppression of the truth, and the proper apologetic methodology to use with the unbeliever. Beginning here, he begins to answer the charge that a covenantal apologetic is “circular reasoning”, or has no “point of contact” with the unbeliever.
…The one main question to which we are addressing ourselves in this series of articles is whether Christians holding to the Reformed Faith should