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	Cornelius Van Til
		Cornelius Van Til (born 1895 in Grootegast, The Netherlands; died 1987) was a Christian philosopher, Reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist.
		Van Til was a graduate of Calvin College, Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton University.
		Van Til drew upon the works of Dutch Calvinist philosophers such as D. Vollenhoven and Herman Dooyeweerd to bring together a fresh approach to apologetics, which opposed the traditional methodology of reasoning on purportedly neutral grounds with the non-Christian.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/co/cornelius_van_til.html (867 words)

	Why Machen Hired Van Til
		Cornelius Van Til was crucial to the founding of Westminster Seminary, not because he was brilliant, not because he was militantly Calvinistic, and not because he was Machen's trusted friend.
		Van Til's apologetics extended this insight from the intellectual and political realms to that of theology and the defense of the faith.
		Van Til was a great choice to teach at Westminster because his apologetics provided the theoretical foundation for Machen's conception of the relationship between church and culture.
	www.opc.org /OS/MachenVanTil.html (1992 words)

	Obituary: Dr. Cornelius Van Til by
		Cornelius Van Til, for 43 years professor of apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, and emeritus professor there since his retirement in 1972, died at the age of 91 on April 17, 1987.
		Van Til is survived by a grand-daughter, Sharon Reed of Valencia, PA.
		Van Til was also instrumental in the founding of Philadelphia-Montgomery Christian Academy, serving as the president of the board.
	www.solagratia.org /Articles/Obituary_Dr_Cornelius_Van_Til.aspx (830 words)

	Cornelius Van Til
		Cornelius Van Til was born on May 3, 1895, in Grootegast, the Netherlands, the sixth son of Ite Van Til, a dairy farmer, and his wife Klazina.
		Van Til's most characteristic explanation is that unbelievers disagree with believers most often when they are "epistemologically self-conscious," that is, when they are most aware of trying to formulate and act out the implications of their unbelief.
		Van Til, Defense, 50; Cornelius Van Til, Introduction to Systematic Theology (Nutley, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1974), 25-26, 78.
	www.frame-poythress.org /frame_articles/1993VanTil.html (6711 words)

	Cornelius Van Til by Phil Fernandes
		Van Til believed the root of the problem is found in the fact that all nonbelievers suppress their knowledge of the true God (Romans 1:18-22).
		Van Til and Clark felt that to defend the truth of the gospel was to deny the Calvinist doctrine of the total depravity of man. They both believed that man's reason was damaged due to the Fall and that direct argumentation for the truth of Christianity would be useless.
		Van Til is correct in his view that the problem is ultimately that of a moral choice rather than an intellectual one.
	www.solagratia.org /Articles/Cornelius_Van_Til.aspx (3354 words)

	Van Til, Cornelius (1895-1987)
		Cornelius Van Til (1895-1987), Reformed theologian and apologist, was born in Grootegast, Holland.
		Van Til’s teachers are Princeton, however, emphasized that Christianity has nothing to fear from rational scrutiny and is fully capable of rational defense.
		Van Til sought to do justice to both these insights, by developing an approach to apologetics that was rational, but based on a distinctively biblical concept of rationality.
	www.frame-poythress.org /frame_articles/2005Vantil.htm (995 words)

	The Works of Cornelius Van Til
		It is exceedingly dangerous to confuse the orthodox concept of the incomprehensibility of God with the ultimate mysteriousness of the universe as held by modern thought.
		Cornelius Van Til, served as a professor of apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, for 43 years.
		Van Til, an immigrant from The Netherlands, was one of the most respected apologetic theologians of his time.
	www.logos.com /products/details/517 (738 words)

	WCAS - The Apologetic Programme of Cornelius Van Til
		Van Til recognised it as such when he came to the realisation that his particular Christian tradition, the Reformed or Calvinist tradition, needed an apologetics programme that was more consistent with its own theological premises.
		Van Til knows this, but he is ready and willing to be judged by the merits (or demerits) of his programme.
		Van Til says that the chief goal of apologetics is to defend the faith from the attacks of unbelievers and to vindicate it in their presence: in this way some will be converted.
	www.christian-apologetics.org /html/Brenton.htm (3606 words)

	Classical Free: GREAT BOOKS INTRODUCTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		One of his former students eulogized Van Til like this: "A young family came to live with him in his old home...The last time I saw him (in June 1985), he was pushing one of their children in a stroller and singing gospel hymns.
		On April 17, 1987, Cornelius Van Til, one of the towering Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century -- who could confound scholars and sing to children -- joined ‘all the saints who from their labors rest,’ and now hymns God’s praise in heaven’s choir.
		Although Van Til limited himself to the field of apologetics and was amillennial in outlook, many of his students went on to develop the full-orbed implications of his work.
	www.classicalfree.org /tgc_gbi.asp?course=GBI-III&essay=VANTIL (1305 words)

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		On this farm on the 3rd of May, 1895 in a farmhouse that was attached to the barn a sixth child was born to Ite and Kiazina Van Til.
		To the Van Tils it was the birth of a covenant child and that God had blessed them with a healthy baby.
		Van Til came to our house every summer for a month for almost ten years until my Mother died in 1960 six months before I went to Westminster as a student.
	www.banneroftruth.org /pages/articles/article_detail.php?234 (5355 words)

	Cornelius Van Til - Theopedia
		Cornelius Van Til (1895 - 1987), born in The Netherlands, was a Christian philosopher, Reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist.
		Van Til graduated from Calvin College in 1922, receiving a ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1925 and his PhD from Princeton University in 1927.
		Van Til is perhaps best known for the development of a fresh approach to the task of defending the Christian faith.
	www.theopedia.com /Cornelius_Van_Til (773 words)

	Presuppositional Apologetics- Cornelius Van Til
		Van Til argued that all human thought and moral judgments would be impossible if the Christian God did not exist.
		Though Van Til implied that this law is a man-made principle, he diligently labored to keep his system free from contradictions.
		Fifth, if Van Til is right in his claim that the apologist must prove the whole biblical doctrine of God rather than just one or a few of His attributes, then the transcendental argument also fails.
	www.biblicaldefense.org /Writings/cornelius_van_till.htm (3360 words)

	Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga: A Brief Comparison
		Van Til and Plantinga evidently disagree on the nature of human freedom and the extent of divine sovereignty.
		Van Til championed the use of a transcendental form of argumentation as the only method capable of rationally, objectively and decisively adjudicating between philosophical systems with conflicting presuppositions (with regard to the nature of reality, the nature of God, the nature of man and his intellect, ultimate epistemic authorities, etc.).
		As a result, Van Til glories in what he takes to be the unavoidable element of circularity and precommitment in Christian theistic apologetics, not to mention the striking correlative conclusion that "antitheism presupposes theism".
	www.proginosko.com /docs/cvt_ap_comp.html (1378 words)

	Two Christian Warriors: Cornelius Van Til and Francis A. Schaeffer Compared by William Edgar
		Cornelius Van Til was known for his polemics not only with unbelievers, but with other Christian apologists with whom he differed.
		Van Til said that in Schaeffer's view natural man is competent to judge whether Scripture is the appropriate complement to general revelation.
		Van Til believed that although Schaeffer used presuppositions, he did not mean the same thing by them as does the transcendental method.
	www.chaleteagle.org /cybershelter/Study/95040A.htm (9397 words)

	Trinity Foundation: Explaining God, man, Bible, salvation, philosophy, theology.
		Hero worship is a prominent characteristic of many of Van Til’s followers, and the ordinary Christian is both baffled and embarrassed by the sounds and the spectacle of bowing and scraping that occur in certain circles.
		If Van Til had done all the things he is reputed to have done, to be all the things he is reputed to be, this writer would be among the first to join his entourage of admirers.
		Thus one of Van Til’s biographers, William White, Jr., recounts the proceedings of a banquet at Westminster Seminary: “...the master of ceremonies was presenting the good-natured Dutchman.
	www.trinityfoundation.org /journal.php?id=33 (2760 words)

	Brute Facts: An Introduction to the Theology and Apologetics of Cornelius Van Til -NRA
		Van Til is an enigma to those of us who studied under him or who have struggled through his books.
		Van Til takes any system you hand him, and he breaks it down into its component parts, turning the pieces over and over in his mind, finding out what it is and how it works.
		Van Til is an Augustinian who insists that all men must "believe in order to reason." Therefore, apologetics is of a piece with all of the theological disciplines and is simply a facet of theology concerned with the presentation of Christian theology to the world.
	www.natreformassn.org /statesman/03/brutefax.html (7584 words)

	May 95 - Cornelius Van Til (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		So in the spring of 1905 the Van Tils, except for brother Hendrik who had joined the army, sailed from Rotterdam to New York, arriving two weeks after the tenth birthday of that son who was to be known in America by the more familiar 'Cornelius'.
		Van Til had farming in his blood and was never happier than working with a hoe, planting and weeding.
		Van Til returned to his Spring Lake pastorale, while the others determined to establish a new institution to maintain the Princeton tradition.
	www.evangelical-times.org /Articles/may%2095/may95a08.htm (1556 words)

	IBRI Research Report #9 - FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT: A Critique of the Logical Structure of Van Til's Presuppositionalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For all the viewer knows (remember that Van Til has made it clear that the viewer cannot see beneath the floor), there may be concrete, flat earth, or water beneath the floor boards or perhaps the boards are all glued fast and then supported by four large stones, and on and on.
		Van Til's is not so much a theory of the justification of specific knowledge claims, but a theistic, or better, a theological, characterization of human knowledge in general.
		It seems clear that Van Tilian apologetic "pull" is owing to the analogicity of the believer's argumentation, but however this "pull" is to be characterized, it must be theorized in a logically consistent manner to cancel the purely logico-discursive defects of the argument's presentation.
	www.ibri.org /RRs/RR011/11vanTil.htm (5179 words)

	Amazon.com: Cornelius Van Til: An Analysis of His Thought: Books: John M. Frame,Cornelius Van Til (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cornelius Van Til is acclaimed by many in the Reformed community as the most important thinker since Calvin.
		Frame believes that once Van Til's thought is stripped of some of its more extreme statements, his apologetics isn't all that different from other apologetic systems.
		Van Til is one of the most needlessly obtuse writers to which I have ever given serious attention.
	www.amazon.com /Cornelius-Van-Til-Analysis-Thought/dp/0875522459 (1595 words)

	Van Til Diagrammed
		Van Til's characterization of the Christian and non-Christian worldviews is a radical challenge, a virtual Copernican Revolution, to the understanding of religion that dominates modern culture.
		As Cornelius Van Til points out in the quote above, the debate is between a worldview in which the non-rational is ultimate (atheism) and a worldview in which the rational is ultimate (Christianity).
		It should be noted that Van Til believes Kant's philosophy to be one of the most logically consistent with the atheistic presupposition of the autonomy of the human mind, so the diagram most accurately reflects Kantian atheism.
	www.christianciv.com /VT_Diagrammed.html (4294 words)

	My Credo
		Cornelius Van Til was Born into a large family on May 3, 1895, in The Netherlands.
		Van Til's great love and abiding interest in Kuyper and his works are a notable aspect of the man and date back to his youth.
		Van Til is a graduate of Calvin College (A.B.), of Princeton Theological Seminary (Th.M.), and Princeton University (Ph.D.).
	www.reformed.org /apologetics/My_Credo_van_til.html (7664 words)

	Amazon.com: Defense of the Faith: Books: Cornelius Van Til (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		If Van Til is right that every human is either in rebellion against God's authority or by grace has been transformed to be submissive to God's authority, then it is impossible to reason apart from one of these two frameworks or "presuppositions".
		Of course, Van Til is arguing that mankind in fact cannot escape the knowledge of God that is within them and the fact that all human interpretation is derivative, not determinative.
		Van Til's views are strictly Biblical, and all of his views are Christian, unlike Dooyeward who opposed him when it came to Spherical Modalities.
	www.amazon.com /Defense-Faith-Cornelius-Van-Til/dp/0875524834 (2124 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Defense of the Faith:: Books: Cornelius Van Til (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Van Til stresses the antithesis between Christian and non-Christian thought and the myth of religious and philosophical neutrality.
		While the use of evidence is not ruled out by any means Van Til is clear there are are no such things as brute or uninterpreted facts.
		On Scripture, Van Til's position is that God's verbal revelation of himself in the Bible is self-authenticating and ultimately cannot be made subject to autonomous human rationality precisely because human autonomy is carried out in open rebellion to the God of the Bible.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Defense-Faith-Cornelius-Van-Til/dp/0875524834 (558 words)

	"The Reformed Pastor and Ecumenism" by Cornelius Van Til
		Cornelius Van Til was born at Grootegast, Netherlands, May 3, 1895.
		He was pastor of the Spring Lake, Michigan, Christian Reformed Church from 192701928; instructor of apologetics at Princeton Seminary (1927-29); professor of apologetics and ethics at Westminster Seminary (1929-1979?).
		Van Til was a prolific writer and authored some 30 books and syllabii, and over 220 articles, pamphlets and reviews.
	www.the-highway.com /ecumenism_VanTil.html (5831 words)

	PopulationData.net : Open Directory Project > Society> Religion and Spirituality> Christianity> Denominations> ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cornelius Van Til - Biographical article including the battle for Princeton and career at Westminster Seminary..
		Cornelius Van Til - Biography, stressing his work in apologetics at Westminster Seminary..
		Cornelius Van Til - Articles stressing his writings, especially in his stance as a presuppositionalist, i.e.-God’s existence and the truth of the Bible must be assumed or presupposed..
	www.populationdata.net /annuaire/odp.php?browse=/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Denominations/Presbyterian/Theology/Princeton_School/Van_Til,_Cornelius (198 words)

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