By What Standard? An Analysis of the Philosophy of Cornelius Van Til

By making the vision of God and the contemplative life the highest aim of life, by emphasizing the spiritual as godly and withdrawal from the world as holy, the middle ages in a sense surrendered the world to the devil.…

For Spinoza, God, man and the universe are but individuations and aspects of the general idea of substance. But, as Van Til pointed out, to say that all is God is no different than saying nothing is God. 'Univocal reason…

Even as Jacob unwittingly embraced a bride who was not his choice, with unhappy consequences, so well-meaning Christian thinkers have unknowingly reasoned on premises they assumed to be Christian.

A great deal of our time will have to be taken up with the destruction of evil. We may not even seem to see much progress in ourselves or round about us, during our lifetime. We shall have to build with the trowel in one…