Binding: Hardback Page Count: 800Publisher: P&R Publishing ISBN# : 9780875520988
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Description :
"Best of Van Til under one cover" Bahnsen’s exposition and Interaction with critics of Van Til"
"This is the late Dr. Bahnsen’s testament to today’s defenders of the truth. It is an encyclopedic synthesis of the thought of Cornelius Van Til, who was arguably the most original apologist of the twentieth century. In the grand tradition of the Sentences of the fathers, this study will be a standard for years to come."
". . . You must have this book, if you are serious about trying to understand Van Til’s thought."
“It is most welcome … to have this massive volume of readings and analysis of [Van Til’s] publications by his former student and a first-rate thinker in his own right.… This book will be of great benefit to mature theological students who wish to engage secular and other pagan ideologies in contemporary society.”
E. EARLE ELLIS SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY (FALL 2001)
“Bahnsen does a masterful job of systematizing the central themes in Van Til’s thought and follows them with carefully selected passages from Van Til’s books, essays, syllabuses, articles, lectures and so on.”
Monergism Review :
There is only one work to buy on Van Til and this is it. Bahnsen has written the definitive commentary on the works of the great thinker. Van Til is very hard to understand because his thought is deep and abstract. Bahnsen provides readings and analysis so that Van Til becomes assessable to everyone. This book is a goldmine of information, tackling the problems of unbelief and exposing them to the light of a “presuppositional apologetic”. If your not sure what “presuppositional apologetics” means this book is a good place to start. If you are a “presuppositional apologist” then you will fully agree- this book is worth every cent! The task Bahnsen has completed would be absolutely daunting, but nothing has been dummied down to insult the intelligence of the reader. At the same time, non-technical readers can understand it. I couldn’t even imagine where one would begin with a synthesis of Van Til, but Bahnsen gives us clarity where there has been much confusion. It is strange that one should start with Bahnsen instead of Van Til if they really want to understand Van Til. But this is true because “Van Til’s Apologetic” is the clearest, most accurately systematized introduction to Van Til available. Indeed, Van Til could not have done better! You have not studied apologetics until you have studied the works of Van Til and this book is all you need to accomplish that task.
- B. K. Campbell
