Quiz #4

What does Van Til refer to as the “metaphysical principle” that “ultimately controls a truly Christian methodology”? 

The economic Trinity is simply the ontological Trinity without modification in a sovereignly willed relation to creation. 

What does God’s simplicity entail? (Fill in the blank). 

What is the epistemological principle that undergirds Van Til’s method?

What does “revelational” refer to in what Van Til calls a “revelational epistemology”?

What is a “direct method” of apologetics according to Van Til?

According to Van Til, the method of reasoning by presupposition must be indirect rather than direct because believers and non-believers hold to antithetical metaphysical and epistemological principles that determine both the nature and meaning of the facts. 

What statements represent species of correlativism?

Rationality, coherence, and the uniformity of nature presuppose as the condition for their possibility the being and revelation of God. How does Van Til illustrate this?

Even non-Christians presuppose the truth of Christian theism while they verbally reject it.