Socrates’ Critique of Modernity

Marigold: Your work may conquer thoughts, but mine conquers nature.
Socrates: Why do you want to conquer nature? Why not befriend her instead?
Marigold: Her?
Socrates: Do not the poets tell us nature is our mother? Why would you want to conquer your mother? We conquer our enemies?
Marigold: Nature is not my mother, nor is it my enemy. [...]

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Calvin on Reason and Absurdity

Calvin states that there are three types of reason:

Three kinds of reason are to be considered, but he [Hesushius] at one bound overleaps them all. There is a reason naturally implanted which cannot be condemned without insult to God, but it has limits which it cannot overstep without being immediately lost. Of this we have [...]

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Oliphint

Scott Oliphint is teaching Apologetics for RTS, and we had our first meeting today. It was rockin’. He represents a pretty consistent Van Tillianism that is right in keeping with what I was introduced to years ago. He is also very capable at addressing high-octane academic issues. I was impressed with [...]

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Self-Deception

On my long drive home from a preaching gig this past weekend, I put in some old Greg Bahnsen mp3s.  His Centennial Celebration of Van Til is excellent.
The second lecture in that series is on self-deception, and I appreciated it because the concept is fairly difficult.  If all men believe in God, and the unbelievers [...]

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Matter in Motion

At first Athanasius’ view of human nature as either always moving towards God or falling away from Him into non-existence struck me as odd, but the more I think about it, this does seem to be the logical consequence of creation ex nihilio.
If we really did come from nothing, then it makes sense that we [...]

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Analogies and Analytics

Indeed, the very idea of an “analytic” philosophy is a hopeless one: in attempting to reduce every “synthetic” proposition to one or more analytic truths, self-evidently and even tautologously correct, one makes the mistake of imagining that truth for finite beings is ever anything but synthetic: just as being is granted to beings by an [...]

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A Thought On Infinity

Discussions I’ve had concerning the doctrine of divine infinity and its implication upon the creature’s knowledge (eg. Clark/Van Til) have revealed that many feel that infinity only applies to the “quantitative” realm and not to the “qualitative” realm. God and man must have univocal and not simply analogical knowledge in order for true [...]

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