Help, I\\\'m lost!
I've been in the reformed faith for only a few years. My interests really started to spread into philosophy, and now naturally to apologetics. I'm totally confused concerning the different methods. Let my try an explain what I think I know, and then please correct me.
Presuppositional
Van Tillian - God is presupposed because without God we could know nothing
Clarkian - The Bible is presupposed because without the Bible we couldn't presuppose God
Evidentialism
Evidence presented to prove, or show coherence to the Bible
Is that roughly about right? I have read John Gerstner's Reasons for Faith. If I remember correctly he starts with "I think therefore I am" and concludes that an eternal being must therefore exist and then builds his case from there. So am I correct in thinking he is a Van Tillian?
And isn't evidentialism presuppositional in nature? Wouldn't you have to presuppose that truth is possible before you could offer evidence that something is true? Or am I guilty of equivocating the word presuppositional?
I've been in the reformed faith for only a few years. My interests really started to spread into philosophy, and now naturally to apologetics. I'm totally confused concerning the different methods. Let my try an explain what I think I know, and then please correct me.
Presuppositional
Van Tillian - God is presupposed because without God we could know nothing
Clarkian - The Bible is presupposed because without the Bible we couldn't presuppose God
Evidentialism
Evidence presented to prove, or show coherence to the Bible
Is that roughly about right? I have read John Gerstner's Reasons for Faith. If I remember correctly he starts with "I think therefore I am" and concludes that an eternal being must therefore exist and then builds his case from there. So am I correct in thinking he is a Van Tillian?
And isn't evidentialism presuppositional in nature? Wouldn't you have to presuppose that truth is possible before you could offer evidence that something is true? Or am I guilty of equivocating the word presuppositional?