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Reepicheep – Clark and Van Til
Over at Reepicheep, it was nice to see images of the cover pages of a couple of Van Til’s books demonstrating that Van Til viewed Clark as a brother in Christ, notwithstanding their significant theological differences (link to post). That does not, of course, make right the mistreatment Clark received previously, but it was encouraging…
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Epistemology – Some More Thoughts
1. Certainty about information being true is properly justified according to the source of that information. 2. God is the ultimate and only infallible source of information. 3. Therefore, certainty in the strictest sense is only possible via revelation from God. 4. Perspicuity is important to certainty. 5. Scripture is the highest form of revelation,…
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A Quick Comment on the Van Til / Gordon Clark Debate
There is an odd artifact I’ve noticed in discussions between followers of Van Til and those of Clark. For some reason, those in the camp of Van Til take great delight in pointing out that Clark used the term “know” to refer to what we would call “know with absolute certainty.” As such, Clark did…
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Paradoxes and the Christian Faith
Those following the Reformed blogosphere have no doubt witnessed occasional fireworks over the issue of paradox between my brethren who prefer the philosophy of Gordon Clark (whose most prominent disciple was John Robbins) and those who prefer the philosophy of Cornelius Van Til (whose most prominent disciple was Greg Bahnsen). As one might expect from…
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Humble Epistemology
Todd Pruitt at the 1517 blog has provided some interesting thoughts on epistemology from Albert Mohler, including a catchy quotation from Gordon Clark (link): If man can know nothing truly, man can truly know nothing. We cannot know that the Bible is the Word of God, that Christ died for our sin, or that Christ…