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I got his work on Van Til's Apologetic recently and was wondering what others on the board thought of this book and Bahnsen generally.
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in my opinion, he was the finest proponent of the Van Tillian apologetic. He was also a devastating debater and a wonderful preacher/teacher.....Yeah, I like the guy.
Bahnsen did invaluable work developing the presuppoitionalist insights independently derived by Van Til and C. S. Lewis into an effective apologetic strategy for popular evangelism. If only he had not bought into Rushdoony's "ethical perspective of Christian Reconstruction" i.e. Theonomy....
Where would that be available from Barnpreacher?
What has always been interesting to me is that few in the nonbelieving camp would do anything more than cast stones from afar when he was alive...would never go toe to toe with him from the podium...then after his death, they all come out of the woodwork with their attacks in no danger of hearing his rebuttals.
Where would that be available from Barnpreacher?
Mine came from Whitefield Theological Seminary. I don't know if it's available elsewhere for purchase.
but nleshelman are you a member of the former ARP church in Grand Rapids that went RPCNA recently?
Jacob,
Can you point me to any material that you have that explains how TAG can be reconstructed along narratival lines? or give me a thumb nail sketch what you mean by this?
These stories are not situated within the world: instead, for the Christian, the world is situated within these stories. They define for us what reality is, and they function as "metanarrative"...in the sense of a story privileged by faith, and seen as the key to the interpretation and regulation of all other stories...Christian knowledge is ultimately narratival: claims for objective truth, goodness, and happiness can only be made by identification with a particular form of life.
"Stories are, actually, peculiarly good at modifying or subverting other stories and their worldviews. Where head-on attack would certainly fail, the parable hides the wisdom of the serpent behind the innocence of the dove, gaining entrance and favour which can then be used to change assumptions which the hearer would otherwise keep hidden away for safety"
"They [stories] offer answers to the origin and destiny of world history…and human life within it. The Bible is universal history…It is the true story of the world, and all other stories are at best partial narratives, which must be understood within the context of the biblical story…Since both stories (Christian and non-Christian) make comprehensive and absolute claims, only one story can be the basic and foundational story for life."