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Originally Posted by Ivanhoe  Secondly, I honestly, in good conscience, cannot meet unbelievers on "common, neutral ground." I really cannot concieve of political ethics apart from the Resurrected and Ascended King Jesus. Maybe I should, but then again I do not have cognitive rest on the subject.
Don't get me wrong. I have benefited from Natural Law theologians. I really do like reading Roman catholics. St Thomas has been very helpful to me and in some ways I do appreciate and draw from his social ethic. |
Van Til would say there is no neutral common ground. Paul appealed to the statues to the "unknown God," and said that God they did not know, he would tell them about. I.e., he adopted their presumed-neutral or even -hostile ground and made use of it for the kingdom. That is our model.
