Unpublished Manuscripts of Cornelius Van Til
Overview
This volume contains 14 of Cornelius Van Til’s unpublished manuscripts, including Black Theology and Black Power, Reformed Epistemology, and The Theology of C.S. Lewis.
Do not miss out on the updated release of The Works of Cornelius Van Til.
Product Details
- Title: Unpublished Manuscripts of Cornelius Van Til
- Author: Cornelius Van Til
- Publisher: Labels Army
- Publication Date: 1997
About Dr. Cornelius Van Til
Dr. Cornelius Van Til, served as a professor of apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, for 43 years. He retired in 1972, but remained as an emeritus professor until his death in 1987. Van Til, an immigrant from The Netherlands, was one of the most respected apologetic theologians of his time.
Van Til earned degrees from Calvin College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Princeton University on his way to becoming an Orthodox Presbyterian Minister. He served throughout the ministry and scholarly fields, including teaching as an instructor of apologetics at Princeton Theological Seminary and being heavily involved with the foundation of the Philadelphia-Montgomery Christian Academy.
His most noted writings include The New Modernism, The Defense of the Faith, and Christianity and Barthianism. Much of his work with apologetics focuses on the presuppositions of humans, the difference between believers and non-believers, and the opposition between Christian and non-Christian worldviews.
More information about Van Til as a teacher and Reformed theologian is available in an article Eric Sigward wrote for New Horizons entitled "Van Til Made Me Reformed." Read the article as HTML or PDF (copyright 2004 by New Horizons; used by permission)
Top Highlights
“Dr. Cone says, ‘Black consciousness is the key to the black man’s emancipation from his distorted self-image.’6 But, surely back of black consciousness is human consciousness. How can man know who he is, and what he is if he starts with the idea that he is unknowable non-being to unknowable being. Why does Cone not follow the Reformers, and especially Calvin, when he says that man knows himself only if, in the act of knowing himself, he, at the same time, knows his Creator-Redeemer God in the Christ of the Scriptures?” (source)
“self defense. We may not allow others to take our life. If we did we would allow them to do injustice to God.” (source)
“Aristotle nor Kant meet the irreducible difference between fact and value at the epistemological level” (source)
“The covenant relation is therefore the only relation in which the finite stands to the infinite” (source)
“The philosophy to which Dr. Cone appeals in the interest of freedom is the same sort of philosophy as the philosophy of the Greeks. It is Immanuel Kant’s philosophy that has set the tone for all subsequent schools of philosophy.” (source)
- Title: Unpublished Manuscripts of Cornelius Van Til
- Author: Cornelius Van Til
- Edition: Electronic ed.
- Publisher: Labels Army Company
- Print Publication Date: 1997
- Logos Release Date: 2008
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Apologetics › Unpublished manuscripts; Van Til, Cornelius, 1895-1987 › Unpublished manuscripts
- Resource ID: LLS:CVTMNSCRPTS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T07:13:57Z
Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987) was one of the most respected apologetic theologians of his time. Van Til earned degrees from Calvin College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Princeton University on his way to becoming an Orthodox Presbyterian Minister.
He served throughout the ministry and scholarly fields, including serving as a professor of apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary and being heavily involved with the foundation of the Philadelphia-Montgomery Christian Academy.
His most noted writings include The New Modernism, The Defense of the Faith, and Christianity and Barthianism which can all be found in The Works of Cornelius Van Til (40 vols.). Much of his work with apologetics focuses on presuppositions, the difference between believers and non-believers, and the opposition between Christian and non-Christian worldviews.