The Defense of the Faith, 4th ed.
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
This new annotated edition of The Defense of the Faith restores the full text of the original work in a form that is more easily understood. Cornelius Van Til, who taught for more than forty-five years at Westminster Seminary, sometimes used philosophical vocabulary in The Defense, and many of his conversation partners and critics were not widely known. When later editions greatly abridged this work for these reasons, valuable discussions were laid aside.
Now they are restored, and with added clarification. Newly edited and retypeset, this unabridged edition features a foreword and explanatory notes by K. Scott Oliphint, which help us grasp a method of apologetics consistent with the nature of Christianity itself and continually relevant to our time.
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- Restores the complete and unabridged text of the original work, The Defense of the Faith.
- Provides explanatory notes and a foreword to help readers grasp the apologetics method.
- Offers a form of the text that is more easily understood than previous versions.
- 1. Christian Theology
- 2. The Christian Philosophy of Reality
- 3. The Christian Philosophy of Knowledge
- 4. The Christian Philosophy of Behavior
- 5. Christian Apologetics: Point of Contact
- 6. Christian Apologetics: The Problem of Method
- 7. Christian Apologetics: Authority and Reason
- 8. Common Grace and Scholasticism
- 9. Theological Problems
- 10. Christian Metaphysics
- 11. Christian Epistemology
- 12. Christian Apologetics
- 13. Amsterdam and Old Princeton
- 14. Common Grace and Existentialism
Part One: The Structure of My Thought
Part Two: Objections Considered
The original version is back, with Scott Oliphint’s excellent foreword and explanatory footnotes. Now Van Til is much more understandable, and his opponents too. How stimulating it must have been to be part of that dialogue in the early days of Reformed apologetics! We need that stimulus now if we are to deal with unbelief in a God-honoring way.
—John M. Frame
This new edition provides an enormous service to the reader. The somewhat challenging text is abundantly illuminated by Scott Oliphint, no doubt the leading expert on Van Til in our times.
—William Edgar
Though Van Til often engages ideas, terms, and conversation partners unknown to contemporary, this work also has a delightful effect in exposing the pretensions of human autonomy and the grandeur of God’s sovereign grace. In his careful, thorough, and sympathetic notes, Professor Oliphint has done us all a tremendous service.
—Michael S. Horton