presuppositionalism

Greetings brethren, As a man who is neither convinced of, nor hostile to the philosophical ideas of Cornelius Van Til on epistemology, apologetics and so on, And as someone who has not read any full leangth books on these topics, Should one read Van Til's ”A Survey of Christian...

[If it is still the Lord's Day in your timezone, please return to this discussion tommorow] Recently, a meme was shared in the chat in which the text "I want Reformed Epistemology" and subsequently "I said Reformed Epistemology" was displayed along images of Thomas Aquinas, Cornelius Van Til...

Back in 2007, James Jordan stated the following: Has anyone written or provided analysis that flesh out this relation of biblical theology applied and presuppositionalism applied, to the 'FV movement'? Perhaps maybe some of this is latent in some of the theonomic writings (as Jordan seems to...

What is y’all’s take on when either of these methods of apologetics (Classical and Presuppositional)are to be employed? Would you say one is more effective than the other ? If so, why? Thank you to all you big brain folk here helping me think through big questions with my small brain haha!

Hello everyone, I've been taking (and really enjoying) an intro to systematic theology course at WTS, the prolegomena specifically. It has, however, made me realize that I am woefully lacking in knowledge about philosophy in general. I know very little about classic Greek philosophy and even...

Hebrews 1:3 says God is “upholding all things by the word of his power.” If this is true then it should be for all created things that their existence and continuance has no sufficient explanation in their own created natures, but is due only to God willing them to exist. Thus if one...

Having been introduced to Presuppositionalism through a back door, I have a very basic question: What is it, snd what is it based on? In other words, on what ground do you pre-suppose your'e pre-suppositions? If Atheos Foolsson asks you "how do you know that there is a God", or "how do you...

I see presups use these terms a lot but I can’t find definitions of them anywhere.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who just starting to study Presuppositional Apologetics. It was one of the first books I have read on this topic. If there is any book that helps beginners understand the Presuppositional method, this is the one. Broken down by chapters and sections the...

Can we 100% prove the existence of God, due to the impossibility of the contrary? Doesn't the presuppositional argument for the existence of God basically boil down to the Christian theistic worldview being the only worldview that makes rational sense? For example, Christian theists can make...

Greetings, I'll be studying anthropology of religion as part of an International Relations curriculum starting next week. What articles can you recommend me that will apologetically engage the main topics that anthropology of religion will teach, especially those topics that will criticize...