Cornelius Van Til’s Doctrine of God and Its Relevance for Contemporary Hermeneutics. Jason B. Hunt
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6. Van Til, New Hermeneutic, 82–88.
7. Van Til, Christian Epistemology, 204–5; Bahnsen, Van Til’s Apologetic, 6.
8. Van Til, “My Credo,” 21.
9. Van Til, Doctrine of Scripture, 131.
10. Van Til, Systematic Theology, 13.
11. Van Til, Christian Apologetics, 128. “Christianity not only has its own methodology, but also that only its methodology gives meaning to life” (Case for Calvinism, 106).
12. I.e., a broader philosophical description of what constitutes understanding versus merely focusing on particular interpretive rules.
13. Van Til, Defense of Faith, 30; Christian Epistemology, 118.
14. Van Til, Christ and Jews, 4.
15. Van Til, Defense of Faith, 55. He insightfully points out that, in the fall narrative, Satan, in effect, said that Eve should decide the question, “How do we know?” without asking the question, “What do we know?” (Defense of Faith, 57).
16. I.e., God is both absolute and personal.
17. Van Til, Defense of Faith, 34 (emphasis mine).
18. Van Til, Christianity and Idealism, 85.
19. Van Til generally regards a “fact” in two important, but differing, senses. First, in a positive sense, referring to created, revelatory facts pre-interpreted by God—which combines both the universal and particular—making them ultimately intelligible. Second, in a negative sense, referring to what he called “brute facts”—uninterpreted by God, man, or both—making them unintelligible (Van Til, Christian-Theistic Evidences, 54–58; Christian Epistemology, 1–10, 118; Systematic Theology, 37, 40; Defense of Faith, 140–41, 167; Theory of Knowledge, 34–37; Frame, Van Til, 77–78, 180–83, 272–75, 308, 313, 314). In this particular case, he is referring to “facts” in the positive sense.
20. Van Til, Defense of Faith, 32 (emphasis mine).
21. Van Til, Christianity and Idealism, 9, 127.
22. Van Til, Defense of Faith, 67.
23. Van Til, Is God Dead?, 39, 41 (emphasis mine); Evolution and Christ, 32, 38, 44. By “predication,” he simply means making an assertion (attaching a predicate to a subject).
24. Bahnsen, “Socrates or Christ, 237 (emphasis his).
25. Van Til, Theory of Knowledge, 44; Van Til, Psychology of Religion, 145, 150.
26. Van Til, “My Credo,” 9.
27. Van Til, Systematic Theology, 117.
28. Van Til, Theory of Knowledge, 19.
29. Van Til, Christian Epistemology, 167 (emphasis mine), 221.
30. Van Til, Christian Epistemology, 12.
31. Van Til, Systematic Theology, 123.
32. I.e., completely self-defined, self-sufficient, and self-interpretive; independent of creation (Van Til, Reformed Pastor, 74, emphasis mine).
33. Van Til, “Introduction,” 22–23 (emphasis mine).
34. Van Til, “Nature and Scripture,” 266, 269 (emphasis mine); 266–77; Paul at Athens.
35. Van Til, “Nature and Scripture,” 264, 269.
36. Van Til, Systematic Theology, 227.
37. Van Til, “Nature and Scripture,” 265–67. Elsewhere, he states that “only on the basis of a world in which every fact testifies of God can there be a Word of God that testifies of itself as interpreting every other fact” (Systematic Theology, 179).
38. Van Til, Case for Calvinism, 104–5; Great Debate, 33; Systematic Theology, 60; Christian Epistemology, 123; Scripture, 40; “Introduction,” 34–35.
39. Though, in many places, Van Til follows his mentor, Geerhardus Vos in affirming the presence and necessity of special (verbal) revelation prior to the fall (Vos, Biblical Theology, 27–40; Van Til, Common Grace, 69; Systematic Theology, 126; Theory of Knowledge, 30; Reformed Pastor, 69, 71; Jue, “Theologia Natural,” 168–70).
40. Van Til, Reformed Pastor, 98 (emphasis mine). Elsewhere, in a sermon on “Christ and Scripture,” he argues that Christ placed “himself before the Jews as the one through whom their Scriptures alone received their meaning” (Van Til, God of Hope, 8).
41. Discussing pre-redemptive special revelation, Van Til makes the same point that “history cannot be seen for what it is at any stage, except when viewed in relation to its final end” (Systematic Theology, 126).
42. Van Til, Systematic Theology, 240.
43. Geehan, Jerusalem, 243; Christ and the Jews, 35.