greenbaggins
Puritan Board Doctor
Jacob, while this is certainly progress, I am still a little confused about something in your OP. You said, "According to presuppositionalists, Thomas is wrong for trying to synthesize Aristotle with Christ. However, it is not clear why Thomas is wrong for using concepts from Aristotle, yet it is fine for Van Til to use even more dubious concepts from Kant (emphasis added)." The impression I got from this was that Van Til was less orthodox than Aquinas, at least on the point of integrating pagan philosophers. However, on every point I have pushed back on, you say you either agree with Van Til or are okay with what he said. Where does that leave your original statement? I guess the real problem I have with the statement in the OP is that in the first half of the comparison, you are going with presups in what they say about Aquinas, but in the second half of the equation, you don't do that, but rather go with your own analysis of CVT (which I argued is flawed). I don't know any Van Tillians who say that CVT borrowed ideas and concepts from Kant, let alone would give anyone a pass for doing so. This means that the hinted-at inconsistency is manufactured rather than real.