The New Hermeneutic
Overview
The New Hermeneutic of such men as Ernst Fuchs and Gerhard Ebeling is similar to what Barth did in the early twenties. These men seek to be both more modern and more Reformational and this book is doing the same. What is needed is a really Reformational philosophy and theology. Only if we have this can the depth of the contrast between the self-attesting Christ of Scripture and the Christ-Event of neo-orthodoxy be seen for what it is.
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Product Details
- Title: The New Hermeneutic
- Author: Cornelius Van Til
- Publisher: Presbyterian and Reformed
- Publication Date: 1974
About Dr. Cornelius Van Til
Dr. Cornelius Van Til, served as a professor of apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, for 43 years. He retired in 1972, but remained as an emeritus professor until his death in 1987. Van Til, an immigrant from The Netherlands, was one of the most respected apologetic theologians of his time.
Van Til earned degrees from Calvin College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Princeton University on his way to becoming an Orthodox Presbyterian Minister. He served throughout the ministry and scholarly fields, including teaching as an instructor of apologetics at Princeton Theological Seminary and being heavily involved with the foundation of the Philadelphia-Montgomery Christian Academy.
His most noted writings include The New Modernism, The Defense of the Faith, and Christianity and Barthianism. Much of his work with apologetics focuses on the presuppositions of humans, the difference between believers and non-believers, and the opposition between Christian and non-Christian worldviews.
More information about Van Til as a teacher and Reformed theologian is available in an article Eric Sigward wrote for New Horizons entitled "Van Til Made Me Reformed." Read the article as HTML or PDF (copyright 2004 by New Horizons; used by permission)
Top Highlights
“Is not this what the New Hermeneutic is all about? Rightly interpreted the message of the New Testament must make sense to modern man.” (Page 1)
“A person is called upon to listen and is told he has to listen with regard to himself.’8” (Pages 4–5)
“Secondly, we must go beyond Bultmann’s conception of existential interpretation” (Page 4)
“phenomenalism and existentialism appeared that the full significance of Kant’s philosophy could be appreciated” (Page 2)
“God comes forward as God.’ It is God’s presence with them that they must accept and respond to in obedience” (Page 5)