A Critique of Frame’s Critique of Van Til’s TAG »

Divisions Within Presupposition Apologetics If you didn’t know, there is presuppositional apologetics, and then there is presuppositional apologetics. :) Two of Cornelius Van Til’s students wrote books on what they believe is the best apologetic method. However, they didn’t agree on what Van Til “really” taught, or what Scriptural apologetics “really” is. In 1995, John [...]

A Brief Response to Robert Price on Presuppositionalism »

Robert Price identifies himself as a “Christian atheist.” He’s a big name in the Jesus Seminar, and will be debating James White on the historical Jesus in early May. But this evening’s concern is a small essay that Price wrote on apologetics. Given Price’s skeptical perspective, I was surprised at how much he actually got [...]

A Brief Response to Richard Howe on Presuppositionalism »

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 [...]

Today’s Cool, Wise, and Scary »

What’s cool: Dan Collet’s essay in John Frame’s Festschrift, Speaking the Truth in Love. For those who think that the transcendental argument for God’s existence is really nothing more than a spiffed up version of some formal, logical argument (i.e. reductio ad absurdum, modus ponens, etc,), you will be thoroughly challenged. What’s wise: “He must [...]

Real Christian Philosophy: The Ontological Significance of the Trinity »

“The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything…for ‘In him we live and move and [...]