“Of Rocks and Trees: Christ and the Salvation of Human Knowledge” by Brian G. Mattson

Thirty years ago Professor Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., published a journal article on 1 Corinthians 2:6-16. Its modest title, “Some Epistemological Reflections,” undersold the importance and gravity of his thesis, which possibly explains how and why the essay garnered little to no attention for the following three decades. An editor nowadays would insist on modern promotional techniques. To get people to read, one must employ “click bait.” An all-caps headline reading The Apostle Paul: Van Tilian Presuppositional Apologist would have sparked more than enough controversy and interest. As it happens, the article went virtually unnoticed, or at least unanswered. In the intervening years none of the myriad critics of Cornelius Van Til and his unique methodology for Christian apologetics appeared to have noticed it.