Arguments against Christianity are increasingly taking place on a world-view or philosophical basis. Oliphint teaches how to counter differing ideologies and identify the Christian position as consistent, cogent, and reasonable, and offers genuine solutions.
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K. Scott Oliphint is professor of apologetics and systematic theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and has written three books and numerous scholarly articles.
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As an introduction to philosophy and theology this book is good. The problem is the author's quick read and dismissiveness toward key philosophical figures he is attempting ot use in presentation of his thesis. Space may dictate such treatment, but it comes accross as a method of dismissing the ideas without refuting them, especially in his treatment of some of the work of Alvin Plantinga.
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Some areas of secular philosophy can bring up issues that seem to challenge Christian truth; theology in particular. Nonetheless professor K. Scott Oliphint (professor of Apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary) not only defends Christian theology, he employs philosophy in service to theology. He discusses epistemology, metaphysics (aspects of ontology) ethics, apologetics, all under the authority of the theology revealed in scripture.This is a fairly easy read aimed at intellectually-able high school graduates while he often quotes from Turretin as well as other relevant scholars. Oliphint echoes previous scholars as he notes: "Given any fact or experience, it (TA) asks the question as to the presuppositions behind that fact, and which make it possible." Michael Butler adds that "only the Christian worldview provides the necessary preconditions for the intelligibility of human experience. That is, only the Christian view of God, creation, providence, revelation, and human nature can make sense of the world in which we live." also see the presuppositional apologetic works: Apologetics to the Glory of God: An Introduction and Truth, Knowledge and the Reason for God: The Defense of the Rational Assurance of Christianity and some of Bahnsen's works too. Oliphint gives students, apologists, ministers, and philosophers a fine resource that advocates philosophy's servitude to theology. He is Reformed, presuppositional, and erudite. now that it is a few years old, you can get it a a good price.
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Scott Oliphint has taken Christian Reformed thought and philosophy to a new level, building upon the foundations laid by those who went before him, namely Cornelius Van Til. His knowledge and expertise are clearly demonstrated throughout the pages of this work. Anyone interested in a truly Christian philosophy and apologetic will need to read this volume from Scott Oliphint.
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cognitio acquisita, cognitio insita, transworld untrustworthiness, ectypal theology, jure objections, senses divinitatis, evidential objection, transworld depravity, modus cognoscendi, res significata, modus significandi, acceptability thesis, theological predication, principium cognoscendi, sensus divinitatis, proper basicality, principium essendi, modus essendi, unsurpassable greatness, unifying entity, univocal predication, cannot actualize, accidental union, classical foundationalism, proper proportionality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Son of God, Jesus Christ, Thomas Aquinas, Alvin Plantinga, John Calvin, Grand Rapids, New York, Van Til, Oxford University Press, Holy Spirit, Notre Dame, Christian Covenantal Condescension, John Owen, Warranted Christian Belief, Westminster Confession, Scott Oliphint, Knowing God's Knowing, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, Calvinizing Evil, Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Francis Turretin, God Speaking of God, Immanuel Kant, Paul Helm New!
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cognitio acquisita, cognitio insita, transworld untrustworthiness, ectypal theology, jure objections, senses divinitatis, evidential objection, transworld depravity, modus cognoscendi, res significata, modus significandi, acceptability thesis, theological predication, principium cognoscendi, sensus divinitatis, proper basicality, principium essendi, modus essendi, unsurpassable greatness, unifying entity, univocal predication, cannot actualize, accidental union, classical foundationalism, proper proportionality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Son of God, Jesus Christ, Thomas Aquinas, Alvin Plantinga, John Calvin, Grand Rapids, New York, Van Til, Oxford University Press, Holy Spirit, Notre Dame, Christian Covenantal Condescension, John Owen, Warranted Christian Belief, Westminster Confession, Scott Oliphint, Knowing God's Knowing, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, Calvinizing Evil, Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Francis Turretin, God Speaking of God, Immanuel Kant, Paul Helm New!
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- Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 3: The Divine Essence and Attributes by Richard A. Muller on 19 pages
- Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga on 11 pages
- Summa Theologiae by St.Thomas Aquinas on 11 pages
- Summa Theologiae: Volume 2, Existence and Nature of God: 1a. 2-11 (Summa Theologiae (Cambridge University Press)) by Thomas Aquinas on 11 pages
- The Nature of Necessity (Clarendon Library of Logic & Philosophy) by Alvin Plantinga on 9 pages
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