As most of you know, RealApologetics.org has (at least) three distinguishing marks that set it apart from other apologetics organizations: it is not dispensational in its approach to general theology and hermeneutics (but loosely “covenantal”), it is not evidential or classical in its method of apologetics (but presuppositional, in the line of Van Til and [...]

From the mailbag: 3. Do you have any recommended resources that could help me better understand how presuppositionalists have responded to the specific criticism of their position?  I’m thinking of questions like these:     –How would presuppositionalism say we are to respond to a Muslim, JW, or other theist?  In the encounters I’ve witnessed, these [...]

On the Self-Validation of the Scriptures In reverse chronological order: “Scripture is God’s Word, and therefore it is self-attesting.” John Frame in Scott Oliphint and Lane Tipton, Eds. Revelation and Reason (Presbyterian and Reformed, 2007), 124. “For us to accept the authority of Scripture is to confess that we are obliged to believe what it [...]

The last post was a bit long, and at times like these, it’s always helpful to have an expert summarize the larger picture: Philip Schaff, the two Hodges, and Benjamin B. Warfield placed apologetics first as a prolegomenon or propaedeutic and limited its function to the general ‘proof’ of the perfection or rectitude of Christianity, [...]

“A Valid Apologetic” Herman Bavinck in Prolegomena, 515, 1895 “In saying this, however, we have already indicated the position from which alone a sound defense of the truth can be undertaken. Apologetics cannot precede faith and does not attempt a priori to argue the truth of revelation. It assumes the truth and belief in the [...]