Category Archives: Lane G. Tipton

The Triune Personal God (Lane G. Tipton)

Dissertations, Lane G. Tipton, Theology

“The Triune Personal God: Trinitarian Theology in the Thought of Cornelius Van Til” by Lane G. Tipton

This study investigates the function of the Trinity in Cornelius Van Til’s theology and apologetics and suggests an exegetical strategy for enriching and developing his foundational insights. The thesis is that God as absolute triune personality supplies in Van Til’s system of thought the fundamental theological structure for both the content and defense of the Reformed faith. Locating Van Til’s historical context in his theological and philosophical interaction with the Boston Personalists, who affirmed personality only of God’s unity, and Gordon Clark, who affirmed personality only of God’s diversity, this study will explore the theological rationale for Van Til’s formulation that God is absolute personality, which can be expressed in the language that the triune God is one person and three persons, or one-conscious and three-conscious.

 

Van Til’s Trinitarian Theology (Lane G. Tipton)

Interviews, Lane G. Tipton, Theology

“Van Til’s Trinitarian Theology” by Lane G. Tipton

Lane G. Tipton joins the panel again to discuss Cornelius Van Til’s particular formulation of Trinitarian theology. Dr. Tipton is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary (PA) and has written a dissertation on the topic. Join us as we talk about Dr. Van Til’s theology and the importance of his Trinitarian theology not only for understanding his apologetic system but for holding all things together.

The Trinitarian Theology of Cornelius Van Til (Lane G. Tipton)

Books, Lane G. Tipton, Theology

The Trinitarian Theology of Cornelius Van Til by Lane G. Tipton

Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987) offered a confessionally Reformed doctrine of the Creator-creature relation that stands out as distinct in contrast to both traditional Roman Catholic and contemporary Barthian alternatives. His Trinitarian theology of the Creator-creature relation supplied a pioneering enrichment of Reformed theology in the traditions of Old Princeton and Old Amsterdam.

 

In this volume, Lane G. Tipton interprets Van Til in his own historical and polemical context and demonstrates how the immutably dynamic life of the self-contained Trinity bears upon God’s relation to Adam in the work of creation, the act of special providence in covenant, and the person and eternal Son in the event of incarnation.

 

Tipton argues that Van Til’s Trinitarian theology deepens confessionally Reformed Trinitarianism and federalism in contrast to medieval Thomistic and modern Barthian theological alternatives. In a period marked by theological decline, he strives to clarify and extend confessional Reformed Trinitarian and federal theology in the service of the church’s union and communion with the immutable person of the crucified and ascended Christ of Scripture.