I am sympathetic to that view, but we still have to explain somehow the phenomenon of Van Til’s followers like Scott Oliphint and John Frame departing from the classical, orthodox doctrine of God. And we also have to explain why https://philtattooranch.com/tarifs/ contemporary fundamentalists like Jeffrey Johnson and James White think they are following Van Til when they dismiss Thomas Aquinas in toto. My main point in the podcast was to say that rejecting this doctrine of God just because Thomas Aquinas “used” terms and ideas from Aristotelian philosophy, is highly irresponsible. A doctrine can be biblical in the sense of being the true meaning of what is taught in Scripture even if it uses non-biblical words.

• In fact I was just thinking about the archtypical/ectypical distinction provides a nice solution to Kant's thought last week.
• No, but if that precludes knowledge, then no human could possibly know anything.
• Curiously, Van Til spends less than a sentence on Anselm, simply saying that he was a good "theonomous" heir of Augustine.
• This ends in equivocation because we can't use our phenomounal brains to understand noumanal revealation.

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Eventually, I got an A– in the class and became a good friend of Van Til’s. It is with the memory of this initial confusion in mind that I approach writing about Van Til and Barth. I wish to show sympathy for those who are not familiar with these men or their theologies. As Van Til once said, “American evangelicals know absolutely nothing about Karl Barth.” I am trying to avoid shutting down the lines of communication between my subjects and you.

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A key performance measure for most manufacturing systems is the throughput (# parts/unit time). Our current research considers the construction of a throughput prediction tool. This tool will collect real-time performance data from the manufacturing system and use it to make a prediction concerning future behavior. Both of himself and his immortal kingdom in the mirror of his works, so great is our stupidity, so dull are we in regard to these bright manifestations, that we derive no benefit from them. For in regard to the fabric and admirable arrangement of the universe, how few of us are there who, in lifting our eyes to the heavens, or looking abroad on the various regions of the earth, ever think of the Creator? Do we not rather overlook Him, and sluggishly content ourselves with a view of his works?

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To attain clarity we all have to consider that idea and say what we think about it. Karl Barth (May 10, 1886–1968) and Cornelius Van Til (May 3, 1895–1987) tend to be polarizing figures in church theology. Van Til was a firm opponent of Barth’s theology, arguing that it was fundamentally flawed and anti-biblical.

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Van Til's version of this is his rejection of the 19th century "Princeton Apologetic". He thought that the Princeton School's embrace of the Scottish School of Common Sense had led to liberalism and so rejected it entirely as another form of natural theology. On such a basis man may reason univocally and reach a God who is just an extension of the creature or he may reason equivocally and reach a God who has no contact with him at all. Man is left with either God being part of nature or being so transcendent that He cannot get into nature . It is sufficient to leave men without excuse for their sin and denying the God they know they are created to worship but insufficient at revealing the grace of God in salvation. Natural revelation was never meant to function by itself but it was historically sufficient as it renders without excuse.

Van Til actually held a high view of natural theology, he just thought that it was impossible to interpret corectly apart from special revealation. In his book Christian Apologetics he uses the some of the qualities ascribed to the bible to talk about natural revealation. Barth as far I can tell never beleived in any kind of natural revealation, his work Nien! And his commentary on the Barmen Declaration, I don't know his exact problem with natural revealation apart from his view of special revealation, but there are key fundenental differences between the two. This set of input-output performance data will be referred to as historical performance data. Unfortunately for many modern manufacturing systems, a sufficiently large set of such historical performance data required to use these data-driven modeling techniques is usually not available.

How can Christianity claim to be true if it was incompatible with the best science and philosophy developed by sound reasoning? It would be like saying that Christianity and natural science are incompatible. Both Augustine and Thomas were committed to the proposition that “all truth is God’s truth” and that general revelation cannot contradict special revelation.