Theologian par excellence of the Reformation, John Calvin is best known for his Institutes of the Christian Religion, written as a theological introduction to the Bible and a vindication of Reformation principles. After appearing in several editions beginning in 1536, Calvin's Institutes was finally published in this authoritative 1559 edition. Henry Beveridge's translation of Calvin's magnum o…
Minat terhadap ajaran-ajaran John Calvin tidak berkurang sejak munculnya buku ini pada tahun 1939. Demikian juga kebutuhan akan theologi Calvin. Ketika kita memasuki abad ke-21, terbitnya buku yang memberikan ulasan ringkas tapi padat tentang Calvinisme ini sangatlah tepat waktu. Dengan gaya yang lancar dan sistematis, Henry Meeter memberikan secara garis besar apa yang menjadi ciri-ciri yang m…
as attacks on Christianity become more numerous and pronounced, Cornelius Van Til classic treatment on apologetics endures as crucial reading for our time. Designed to stop securalists in their tracks, it is the kind of seminal work that serious defenders of fatih cannot afford to ignore. After laying a foundation in the Christian views of God, man, salvation, the world, and knowledge, Van Til…
In This Volume Cornelius Van Til Focuses on the nature of a commitment to biblical authority and its implications for non-Christian thought. To some degree an expansion of and supplement to his The Defense of the faith, this book compares and contrasts a consistently Christian approach to knowledge with interpretations that have been given to it throughout church history. Van Til gives specific…
A Survey of Christian Epistemology gives readers an excellent introduction to the basic elements of Van Til's Christian theory of knowledge that inform all of his later writings. It calls us to interpret ourselves, the knowing subjects, as sinful creatures who suppress our knowledge of God (particularly by means of various philosophical systems), rather than as neutral, autonomous knowers. The …
KARL BARTH IS NOW REGARDED AS THE GREAT PROPHET OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. "Barth's Christology has, it is said, spoken the liberating word for our day. In it, we are told, God's sovereignty above man and his gracious presence with man, are kept in proper balance. "Barth's theology is rapidly becoming the rallying point for mod-ern ecumenism. Roman Catholic and New Protestant theologians a…
In 1950 The Tyndale Press in London published the address contained in the present pamphlet. It is now being republished, with permission, in this country. The writer would gladly have extended the pamphlet by expounding more fully the dialectical and Roman Catholic positions. This has been suggested by reviews of the first edition. But such an extension would tend to defeat the purpose of havi…
In earlier publications the present writer pointed out that the synthesis between a theology based on that of the Ref'ormcrs and a theology based on the philosophy of Kant is an intellectual and spiritual monstrosity. In it Kant, not Calvin is the real victor. The result is the destruction of an intelligible basis for human predication. What is needed is a really Reformational philosophy and th…