Why sure! I don't know of any better way to become familiar with an author excepting by reading their works or listening to their lectures/talks/sermons etc.

There is actually a huge argument even between lovers of Van Til as to exactly what he taught - do you really want to get bogged down in that miry clay?

Ad Fontes! Best get it from the author's mouth and see what sense you make of him.

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Satch Chikhlia, Reformed Baptist, Surrey, England

"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." Colossians 3.1

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