The Works of Cornelius Van Til (40 Vols.)

Praise for Cornelius Van Til

Van Til . . . is perhaps the most important Christian thinker of the twentieth-century.
—John M. Frame, Westminster Theological Seminary

The desire of Cornelius Van Til is to present and to teach a thoroughly Biblical system of apologetics, giving to the natural man no quarter in his all-out warfare against the Biblical system of truth.
—F. R. Howe, Dallas Theological Seminary

Van Til's presuppositional approach has been a powerful impetus for reform in Christian thinking. Outwardly, it directs a transcendental challenge to all philosophies which fall short of a Biblical theory of knowledge, demonstrating that their worldviews do not provide the philosophical preconditions needed for the intelligible use of logic, science, or ethics. Inwardly, it calls for self-examination by Christian scholars and apologists to see if their own theories of knowledge have been self-consciously developed in subordination to the word of God which they wish to vindicate or apply. It has likewise cut a wide swath through a large number of relevant areas of interest, requiring that every area of life be governed by the inscripturated word of God.
—Dr. Greg Bahnsen, student of Van Til

Resources Included in This Collection

Works by Van Til (36 Resources)

Books (29 Resources)

• Apologetics
• The Case for Calvinism
• Christ and the Jews
• Christian Theistic Ethics
• A Christian Theory of Knowledge
• Christian-Theistic Evidences
• Christianity and Barthianism
• Christianity and Idealism
• Christianity and Modern Theology
• Common Grace
• Common Grace and the Gospel
• The Confession of 1967: Its Theological Background and Ecumenical Significance
• The Defense of the Faith, Abridged Edition
• The Defense of the Faith, First Edition
• Essays on Christian Education
• The God of Hope: Sermons and Addresses (16)
• The Great Debate Today
• An Introduction to Systematic Theology
• The New Hermeneutic
• The New Modernism: An Appraisal of the Theology of Barth and Brunner
• New Synthesis of the Netherlands
• The Protestant Doctrine of Scripture
• Psychology of Religion
• The Reformed Pastor and Modern Thought
• The Reformed Pastor and the Defense of Christianity & My Credo
• The Sovereignty of Grace: An Appraisal of G. C. Berkouwer's View of Dordt
• A Survey of Christian Epistemology
• The Theology of James Daane
• Who Do You Say That I Am?

Articles, Audio, Reviews, Sermons, and Unpublished Manuscripts (7 Resources)

• The Articles of Cornelius Van Til (100+)
• The Cornelius Van Til Audio Library (75+)
• The Dutch Articles of Cornelius Van Til (25)
• The Pamphlets, Tracts, and Offprints of Cornelius Van Til (20)
• Reviews by Cornelius Van Til (70)
• The Sermons and Addresses of Cornelius Van Til (11)
• Unpublished Manuscripts of Cornelius Van Til (14)

Works by Other Authors (3 Resources)

• A Guide to the Writings of Cornelius Van Til 1895–1987 by Eric D. Bristley
• Introduction to the Works of Cornelius Van Til 1895–1987 by Eric H. Sigward, editor
• Jerusalem and Athens by E. R. Geehan, editor

Other Title Included (1 Resource)

• The King James Version Bible

About the Individual Resources

Apologetics by Cornelius Van Til In this important work, eminent Reformed thinker Cornelius Van Til offers a Christian apologetic that includes five chapters titled The System of Christian Truth, The Christian Philosophy of Life, The Point of Contact, The Problem of Method, and Authority and Reason. Van Til begins the work with the words, “Apologetics is the vindication of the Christian philosophy of life against the various forms of the non-Christian philosophy of life.”	The Articles of Cornelius Van Til by Cornelius Van Til This resource contains more than 100 articles and essays written by Cornelius Van Til over the course of his lifetime. The articles provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind of the Reformed thinker on a variety of topics, spanning some seven decades and pulled from publications like The Banner, The Presbyterian Guardian, Torch and Trumpet, Westminster Theological Journal, Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of Christianity.
The Case for Calvinism by Cornelius Van Til Cornelius Van Til wrote this book as a response to a series of three volumes published by Westminster Press in 1959: The Case for a New Reformation Theology, The Case for Theology in Liberal Perspective, and The Case for Orthodox Theology. In The Case For Calvinism, Van Til challenged their views “by setting the truly Christ-centered position of the historic Protestant faith, especially the historic Reformed Faith as found in Calvin and his followers, over against the man-centered position of [these authors].”	Christ and the Jews by Cornelius Van Til The Preface states, “In this monograph the author clearly sets ancient and modern Jewish thought over against Christian thought and demonstrates that there can only be opposition between them when both are advocated from the standpoint of their respective ‘standards’ and presuppositions. . . . The Christian who is concerned that his witness to the Jew be scripturally sound and honoring to his Lord will receive help . . . by the reading of Christ and the Jews.”
Christian Theistic Ethics by Cornelius Van Til The Preface states, “This [book] claims with the historic Reformed creeds that the good is good because God in Christ through the Scriptures, says it is good. Without the presupposition of the self-sufficient moral consciousness of the triune God revealed in Scripture, man’s moral consciousness would operate in a vacuum. To bring out this point Part 1 deals with Christian Ethical Principles. . . . Part 2 traces the development of apostate man’s principle of ‘inwardness’ or moral self-sufficiency in order to show that it has led and cannot but lead to moral chaos.”	A Christian Theory of Knowledge by Cornelius Van Til Van Til wrote this book as an “expansion and supplement” to his work The Defense of the Faith (1955). Van Til summarizes it as an “attempt to work out in greater detail the nature and implications of our commitment to Scriptural authority in relation to our activity as Christian theologians and philosophers today. In addition several men discussed in Defense of the Faith are given a deeper analysis. Among these ar