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Why I Believe in God (Westminster Discount) (Van Til)

Why I Believe in God (Westminster Discount) (Van Til)

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Want a small gem which explains and illustrates presuppositional apologetics? Then get hold of Cornelius Van Til's brief pamphlet "Why I Believe in God." It isn't flashy in style. It isn't complex in content. But it is devastating.

The pamphlet is less than twenty (small) pages long and is written in an easy, conversational style. It has Van Til "talking" to the reader in an imaginary dialog over belief in God - comparing his life to the reader's hypothetical background and education, parrying objections, and always coming back to the underlying nature of the dispute itself.

No intimidating vocabulary. No difficult scientific insights. No series of premises and complicated inferences. Indeed, the argument is present with such subtlety that some first-time readers wonder whether there is even an argument there.

But there is. And it is profound. What the pamphlet does is illustrate the "transcendental" method of defending the faith - without ever needing to call it that or use other philosophical parlance. Here we have one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century explaining the most profound proof of Christian theism - in terms which we can all understand! (I like to call it "Transcendental Argumentation for Every man.")

 

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Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987) was born in Grootegast, the Netherlands, and immigrated with his family to America in 1905. He attended Calvin College and Calvin Seminary before completing his studies at Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton University with the ThM and PhD degrees. Drawn to the pastorate, Van Til spent one year in the ministry before taking a leave of absence to teach apologetics at Princeton Seminary. When the seminary reorganized, he was persuaded to join the faculty of the newly founded Westminster Theological Seminary. He remained there as professor of apologetics until his retirement in 1975. Van Til wrote more than twenty books, in addition to more than thirty syllabi.