I love logic. But I’m not very good at it. It’s not that I tend to accidentally make a bunch of logical fallacies, it’s just the unnatural feeling of forcing your mind to work and think in such a simple and organized way. Know what I mean? It’s so much easier just to let your [...]

Spirituality isn’t a normal topic for an apologetics blog. But there was one recent experience that I think may have profound insight into the concept of thanksgiving. Since it’s Thanksgiving Day, and since it may be helpful for others in their pursuit of God and His truth and being content in His whole Being, I [...]

I come across this question an average of about once a week. So instead of repeating myself, and even though there are several people more qualified to answer such questions (e.g. Oliphint, Edgar, etc.), I’ll just say once and for all what’s my take: For the question, “I want to read Van Til, where should [...]

I can’t tell you, after publishing The Portable Presuppositionalist (2nd ed. forthcoming), how many people have come to me and said things like, “so presuppositionalism is anti-evidence,” or “so it’s impious to look at evidence for Christianity” or “so it would be wrong to read Strobel’s Case for Christ, right?” The idea is that, because [...]

Biblical/“Presuppositional” “Traditional” Apologetics Scripture… Is sufficient to tell us how to defend the faith, and it teaches a “presuppositional” method of apologetics. (a)    Is not sufficient to tell us how to defend the faith, or (b)   Is sufficient to tell us how to defend the faith, but it doesn’t. (c)    Is sufficient to tell us [...]

Abraham Kuyper: Aggressive Reaction (to Traditional Apologetics) and Unnecessary Abandonment (of All Apologetics) (apologetics is “useless” (Lectures on Calvinism, 36). Herman Bavinck: Initial Critique and Summary of Solution (“The Valid Apologetic” in Reformed Dogmatics) Cornelius Van Til: Comprehensive Critique and Reformation (The Defense of the Faith, Introduction to Systematic Theology, A Christian Theory of Knowledge) [...]

Dorothy and her friends are classical/evidential apologists putting up their fight against the giant, loud, and demanding monster of unbelief. Toto is the presuppositionalist, taking the back way and exposing unbelief at its core.