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The Enlightenment is Dead: Chapter 5 – Unity, Diversity, and Covenantal Knowledge: The Solution to the Problem of Knowledge
Given that all facts are interpreted facts, if the human mind were autonomous, then everything outside the human mind would be unintelligible. The human mind would be trapped in a solipsistic cage, unable to know the irrational, external world. … Continue reading
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The Enlightenment is Dead: Chapter 4 – From Modernism to Postmodernism: The Transformation of ‘Better Living through Chemistry’
Materialism and the Crisis of Meaningful Existence The beginning of the twentieth century was the best of times and the worst of times for atheism. Science was making stupendous discoveries and technological advances faster than any time in history, and … Continue reading
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The Enlightenment is Dead: Chapter 3 – Darwin, Dewey, and Relativism
Darwin’s Positivist Epistemology Despite the failed attempts of Enlightenment epistemology to account for science, an atheistic view of science came to dominate the scientific establishment and other academic disciplines in the latter half of the nineteenth century. This triumph came through … Continue reading
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The Enlightenment is Dead: Chapter 2 – Killing God and Killing Knowledge: Descartes to Nietzsche
Descartes and the Beginning of Secularism René Descartes (1596-1650) can be given a great deal of the credit for initiating modern philosophy and modern atheism. His philosophy marks, as those who endorse this philosophical change call it, the transition from … Continue reading
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The Enlightenment is Dead: Chapter 1 – The Secularist’s Epistemological Dilemma: Deriving Rationality from the Non-Rational
“If you are merely a sceptic, you must sooner or later ask yourself the question, ‘Why should anything go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in … Continue reading
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Does Presuppositionalism Confuse Ontology and Epistemology?
An excellent article by James Anderson about a frequent claim of Classical apologists against the Presuppositionalist view of apologetics: Occasionally one hears classical apologists (especially those of a Thomist persuasion) claim that presuppositionalists are guilty of “confusing ontology and epistemology” … Continue reading
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How Howe Misunderstands Presuppositionalism
Dr. Richard Howe, professor at Southern Evangelical Seminary, was interviewed in a video posted on April 9, 2020, to YouTube under the title “A Sound Refutation of Presuppositionalism with Dr. Richard Howe” (here). This is my response in defense of … Continue reading
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God is Necessary for Civil Government and Law
This is an excerpt from my essay “Christian Civilization is the Only Civilization – Part II: A Critique of Specific Disciplines and their Christian Reconstruction” under the topic “Civil Government and Law.” Cornelius Van Til has said, “There is no … Continue reading
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God is Necessary for Art
This is an excerpt from my essay “Christian Civilization is the Only Civilization – Part II: A Critique of Specific Disciplines and their Christian Reconstruction” under the topic “Art.” Defining art has been a perennial problem, but regardless of what the definition … Continue reading
Another Round of the Thomist Rumor Mill against Van Til: Keith A. Mathison’s “Christianity and Van Tillianism”
PDF version In the August 2019 issue of Ligonier Ministries’s magazine Tabletalk, Keith Mathison writes a lengthy essay titled “Christianity and Van Tillianism,” which is written from the perspective of Reformed Thomism in criticism of Cornelius Van Til’s apologetic program. … Continue reading
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