Van Til’s The Total Picture (in table format) by Cornelius Van Til and Steve Scrivener
Category Archives: Apologetics
The Defense of Christianity (Cornelius Van Til)
“The Defense of Christianity” by Cornelius Van Til
We have first the non-Christian, who worships the creature rather than the Creator. We shall call him Mr. Black. Mr. Black may be a very “decent” sort of man. By God’s common grace he may do much that is “good.” Even so he is, as long as he remains in his unconverted state, black in the sight of God.
On the other hand we have a representative of those who have, by the grace of God, become worshipers of the Creator-Redeemer, called Mr. White. Mr. White is far from what, judging him by his name, we should expect him to be. But he is washed in the blood of the Lamb. In Christ he is whiter than snow. Mr. White is the Reformed Christian. …
Presuppositionalism: A Reply to Dr. Buswell (Cornelius Van Til)
“Presuppositionalism: A Reply to Dr. Buswell” [Part 1] [Part 2] by Cornelius Van Til
Dear Dr. Buswell:
Allow me to thank you first for the courtesy extended in permitting me to make some remarks on your recent review of my booklet on Common Grace (See The Bible Today, November, 1948). I shall try, as simply as I can, to state something of my theological beliefs and my method of defending them. In this way I can perhaps best reply to your charges that I do not hesitate to make declarations flatly contradictory to the Reformed Standards and the Bible. …
Nature and Scripture (Cornelius Van Til)
My Credo (Cornelius Van Til)
“My Credo” by Cornelius Van Til
How can I express my appreciation adequately for the honor you have conferred on me by your contributions to this Festschrift? I shall try to do so first by setting forth in this, my “Credo,” a general statement of my main beliefs as I hold them today. Then I shall deal separately with the problems and objections some of you have raised in respect to my views in separate response to the essays themselves. I hope that by doing this we may be of help to one another as together we present the name of Jesus as the only name given under heaven by which men must be saved. …
Letter to Gordon H. Clark (Cornelius Van Til)
“Letter of Dr. Cornelius Van Til to Dr. Gordon H. Clark” by Cornelius Van Til
Dear Clark:
Your letter containing the article on the place of the intellect in respect to the Scriptures came today. I shall be glad to make a few remarks about it. …
Letter to Francis Schaeffer (Cornelius Van Til)
“A Letter from Cornelius Van Til to Francis Schaeffer” by Cornelius Van Til
Dear Francis:
You remember that some time ago I sent you a copy of a memorandum that I wrote on your Wheaton Lectures. Now that your book The God Who Is There appeared I should like to make some further remarks. …
Van Til Lectures
Van Til Lectures from Westminster Theological Seminary
A Survey of Christian Epistemology (Cornelius Van Til)
A Survey of Christian Epistemology by Cornelius Van Til
What we are concerned with in this syllabus is, first of all, a broad survey, and secondly, a method of defense of the Christian philosophy of life. We shall not attempt to give the survey first, and the defense afterward. On the contrary, we shall try to make the defense as we make the survey, and make the survey as we make the defense. We shall have to approach the matter of a Christian world-and-life view from an historical point of view. …