Cornelius Van Til
Manuscript Collection #048
Box #tba
Content Summary: A gathered
collection of writings and correspondence drawn largely from other collections
within the PCA Historical Center. Index to be posted later.
| Span dates: 1929-1987 |
Size: 1.0 cu. ft. (one box) |
Access: This collection is open to researchers.
Preferred citation: PCA Historical Center, St. Louis, Missouri.
Related Collections: f |
[3 May 1985 - 17 April 1987]
Dr. Cornelius Van Til, as he appeared in a 1931 directory
of the Westminster Seminary faculty. |
The Cornelius Van Til Papers reside at Westminster Theological Seminary.
Finding Aids or other details on the specific extent of that collection,
along with specific contact information, will be posted as that information
become available.
Information on the smaller collection of materials housed here in the
PCA Historical Center is also still in process. Please check back here
by January 2001.
Excerpted from the 1931 brochure Our Faculty prepared by the Westminster
Student's Association, this description of Dr. Van Til and his teaching:
"Dr. Van Til's main thesis is that either the
God of the Bible is God, or there is no God. Since Pragmatism, Idealism,
Personalism and all other such philosophies of the day deny the God of
the Bible, it follows, says Dr. Van Til, that the God they would substitute
is not God at all. Christian theism is the only position the consistent
thinker can hold. All other philosophies rob the universe of God."
"So Dr. Van Til says, and as we follow his argument, and realize
how true to Scripture it is, we are compelled to affirm its truth. And
we thank God that Christianity is intellectually consistent, and that
before the keenest attacks of worldly thinkers, its thought structure
is impregnable. The wisdom of God meets the wisdom of the world on its
own grounds and triumphs." |
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