Van Til’s Apologetic Method

This course will consider Cornelius Van Til’s distinctive presuppositional or transcendental approach to defending Christian Theism as a unit. Van Til’s indirect argument by presupposition will be set in contrast to other approaches that use a block-house methodology and seek to offer rational and probabilistic arguments for theism and Christianity. Special attention will be given to the Reformed theological and exegetical foundations that regulate Van Til’s presuppositional or transcendental method and the use of evidence in a presuppositional apologetic.