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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Bruce Waltke, Carl Trueman, Cornelius Van Til, D. G. Hart, Edmund Clowney, Edward Joseph Young, Gregory Beale, Harvie M. Conn, J. Alan Groves, Jay E. Adams, John Frame (theologian), John Gresham Machen, John Murray (theologian), List of Westminster Theological Seminary people, Meredith Kline, Moises Silva, Ned Stonehouse, O. Palmer Robertson, Oswald Thompson Allis, Peter Enns, Philip Edgecumbe Hughes, R. Laird Harris, Raymond Bryan Dillard, Richard Gaffin, Rienk Kuiper, Robert Dick Wilson, Robert Godfrey, Sinclair Ferguson, Timothy J. Keller, Tremper Longman, Vern Poythress, William Edgar (apologist). Excerpt: Cornelius Van Til (May 3, 1895 - April 17, 1987) was a Christian philosopher, Reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist. Van Til (born Kornelis van Til in Grootegast, Netherlands) was the sixth son of Ite van Til, a dairy farmer, and his wife Klasina van der Veen. At the age of ten, he moved with his family to Highland, Indiana. He was the first of his family to receive a higher education. In 1914 he attended Calvin Preparatory School, graduated from Calvin College, and attended one year at Calvin Theological Seminary, where he studied under Louis Berkhof, but he transferred to Princeton Theological Seminary and later graduated with his PhD from Princeton University. He began teaching at Princeton Seminary, but shortly went with the conservative group that founded Westminster Theological Seminary, where he taught for forty-three years of his life. He taught apologetics and systematic theology there until his retirement in 1972 and continued to teach occasionally until 1979. He was also a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church from the 1930s until his death in 1987, and in that denomination, he was embroiled in a bitter dispute with Gordon Clark over God's incomprehensibility known as the Clark-Van Til Controversy in which, according to Van Til's pupil John Frame, neither man was at his best and neither quite understood the other's position. Van Til drew upon the works of Dutch Calvinist philosophers such as D. H. Th. Vollenhoven, Herman Dooyeweerd, and Hendrik G. Stoker and theologians such as Herman Bavinck and Abraham Kuyper to bring together a fresh, decidedly Reformed approach to Christian apologetics, which opposed the traditional methodology of reasoning on the supposition that there is a neutral middle-ground, where the non-Christian and the Christian can agree. His attempted contribution to the Neo-Calvinist approach of Dooyeweerd, Stoker and others, was to insist that the "ground motive" of a Christian philosophy must be derived from the his |
