The Pamphlets, Tracts, and Offprints of Cornelius Van Til
Overview
Including Why I Believe in God, The Intellectual Challenge of the Gospel, Is God Dead? and others, this set features 10 of Van Til’s short tracts and essays.
Do not miss out on the updated release of The Works of Cornelius Van Til.
Product Details
- Title: The Pamphlets, Tracts, and Offprints of Cornelius Van Til
- Author: Cornelius Van Til
- Publisher: Labels Army
- Publication Date: 1997
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
“On the other hand by my belief in God I do have unity in my experience. Not of course the sort of unity that you want. Not a unity that is the result of my own autonomous determination of what is possible. But a unity that is higher than mine and prior to mine. On the basis of God’s counsel I can look for facts and find them without destroying them in advance.” (source)
“Of course you know better now. You realize that all that was purely imaginary. To be ‘without bias’ is only to have a particular kind of bias. The idea of ‘neutrality’ is simply a colorless suit that covers a negative attitude toward God.” (source)
“You know as well as I that every child is conditioned by his environment. It appears that you were as thoroughly conditioned not to believe in God as I was to believe in God. So let us not call each other names. If you want to say that belief was poured down my throat, I can always retort that unbelief was poured down your throat.” (source)
“For what you have really done in your handling of the evidence for belief in God, is to set yourself up as God. You have made the reach of your intellect, the standard of what is possible or not possible. You have thereby virtually determined that you intend never to meet a fact that points to God.” (source)
“Paul appealed to the heart of the natural man, whatever mask he might wear, and required of him that he repent from the vanity of creature worship to the fruitfulness of the worship of the ‘living God.’” (source)