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DMcFadden · #6 (**permalink**) 11-09-2007, 02:03 PM

Sproul's apologetic is basically in sync with his mentor at Pittsburg, John Gerstner. They both emphasize classical apologetics and the role of reason in their writings. The book Spear Dane references (Classical Apologetics) is the best accessible introduction to Gerstner/Sproul's attack on presuppositional apologetics.

I did not mean to say that Sproul is anything but a classical apologist, merely that anyone will find elements of the other types in most apologetic writers. For example, the Creation Museum folks are strongly presuppositional in their approach. They even sit around reading Bahnsen in their spare time (Dr. Georgia Purdom, PhD biology, was telling my family how much the entire staff there is "into" Bahnsen's apologetic). Yet, if you travel through the museum, while the major thrust is on worldview differences and presuppositionalism, you will still find creationist exhibits featuring "evidence" for creation rather than evolution. Despite our basic "type," don't most of us include elements and arguments from the other systems???

See Spear Dane's wonderful summary of the various apologetic types in his post today on the "What View are You?" thread (Tom the classicist, Joe the evidentialist, Cal the presuppositionalist, Martin the fideist, and Alvin the Reformed epistemologist).