Cornelius Van Til war ein christlicher Philosoph und reformierter Theologe, der für seinen innovativen Ansatz zur Verteidigung des christlichen Glaubens bekannt ist. Abseits traditioneller Methoden entwickelte er eine überzeugende, präsuppositionelle Methodik, die die krasse Antithese zwischen christlichen und nicht-christlichen Weltanschauungen betonte. Seine Arbeit befasst sich mit der grundlegenden Rolle von Präsuppositionen und dem entscheidenden Berührungspunkt zwischen Gläubigen und Ungläubigen. Van Til strebte eine durchweg christliche Methodik in seiner Apologetik an und lädt die Leser zu einer tieferen Auseinandersetzung mit den Grundlagen des Glaubens ein.
Focusing on Christian ethics, this unpublished curriculum offers insights into the Ten Commandments as taught at Westminster Theological Seminary. It emphasizes the importance of understanding God's law and its contemporary relevance, making it essential for Christians aiming to deepen their faith and witness. The work highlights the necessity of these commandments in guiding moral conduct and spiritual life.
Van Til explores the implications of Christian theology, particularly for philosophy, as he discusses epistemology, general and special revelation, and the knowledge and attributes of God. Cornelius Van Til taught apologetics for more than forty-five years at Westminster Theological Seminary.
This syllabus claims with the historic Reformed creeds that the good is good because God in Christ through the Scriptures says it is good. Without the presupposition of the self-sufficient moral consciousness of the triune God revealed in Scripture, man's moral consciousness would operate in a vacuum. Part 1 deals with Christian Ethical Principles and Part II traces the development of apostate man's principle of "inwardness" or moral self-sufficiency in order to show that it has led and cannot but lead to moral chaos.