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The Reformed by Cornelius Van Til

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Only in Reformed theology does one find an attempt to take the fundamental motif of Scripture, the self-contained ontological trinity, and understand all the teachings of Scripture in terms of that motif. It is because of this unique conception of God that the doctrines of Scripture such as creation, fall, covenant, redemption, etc., take on their particular Reformed structure which speaks first and always of the glory of God.

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