“Van Til’s Challenge to Illegitimate Common Ground” by Greg L. Bahnsen

The last two issues of Penpoint have featured essays on the apologetic of Dr. Cornelius Van Til, as does this one, because 1995 is the centennial of his birth, and one of our key objectives at SCCCS has been to honor, preserve, and advance Van Til’s distinctive and reformational defense of the Christian faith. [FOOTNOTE: See my article “Socrates or Christ: The Reformation of Christian Apologetics” in Foundations of Christian Scholarship: Essays in the Van Til Perspective, ed. Gary North (Vallecito, CA: Ross House, 1976), pp. 191-239 (available from CTM).] It is worth preserving. …