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Apologetics

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Camden M. Bucey/September 4, 2022

What Is the Point of Contact?

In another video, we spoke about the antithesis, the sharp distinction between believers and unbelievers. That distinction is covenantal, absolute, and ethical. We also spoke about how that distinction is …

Camden M. Bucey/August 8, 2022

What Is the Antithesis?

In the field of Reformed apologetics we sometimes speak about the antithesis. The antithesis is a theological principle that is meant to describe the difference between believers and unbelievers. There …

Daniel Ragusa/February 24, 2022

The Apologetic Method of Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831)

The Dutch Reformed thinker and poet Willem Bilderdijk recalls in a letter to a friend in 1822 what his former teacher once said: “When examining the truth of Christianity, you …

Daniel Ragusa/October 1, 2018

[Book Review] The Riddle of Life

J. H. Bavinck. The Riddle of Life. Translated by Bert Hielema. Grand Rapids, MI. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2016. Pp. 94. $20.00. For fallen man, life is a riddle that …

James J. Cassidy/August 7, 2017

The Essential Van Til – The Failure of Classical Apologetics

This post is a kind of follow-on from a previous post about “as-suchness.” In The New Synthesis Van Til writes: Paul does not discuss …

James J. Cassidy/June 11, 2017

The Essential Van Til — God not God

Van Til is a master at exegeting unbelief. This is helpful for apologetics. If we do not understand the unbeliever in a biblical way, inevitably our approach to defending the …