Before anyone blows a gasket about the title of this blog post, I didn’t come up with it. It’s the title of the February 22, 2011 episode of the Reformed Forum podcast . In other words, the title was created by a Van Tillian. Before getting into this brief podcast, let me provide some context that will explain why I am discussing it at all. In two consecutive Reformed Forum podcasts, I’ve been strongly criticized for allegedly relying too much on Scott Oliphint’s interpretati

I don’t know how many times I have read chapters 2 and 3 of the Proslogion since my time in college, but the number is large. I had to read those chapters in philosophy classes and in theology classes. I had to read them several times during my time in seminary, and I’ve read them numerous times since then. Never was I assigned the entirety of the Proslogion , but eventually I read it on my own. I don't think I was ever completely sure how to fit all of the pieces together,

In my response to the second part of the Reformed Forum’s ongoing critique of my book on Cornelius Van Til, I touched briefly on their claim that not all Van Tillians agree in their interpretation of Van Til. I had already acknowledged this in the introduction to my book when I briefly surveyed six different schools of Van Tillianism, but there is a bit more to say on this point. Consider for a moment the fact that some eighty years ago, Van Til dropped a bomb in the American

For those readers of my blog who may have stumbled across this post and who do not know what this is all about, I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the context before reading this post. Otherwise, this post isn’t going to make a lot of sense. Here is a brief rundown of the relevant context. In November 2024, my book Toward a Reformed Apologetics: A Critique of the Thought of Cornelius Van Til was published. It is, as the subtitle indicates, a critique of the teach