Cornelius Van Til fu un filosofo cristiano e teologo riformato, rinomato per il suo approccio innovativo alla difesa della fede cristiana. Andando oltre i metodi tradizionali, sviluppò una metodologia persuasiva e presupposizionale che enfatizzava la netta antitesi tra le visioni del mondo cristiane e non cristiane. Il suo lavoro approfondisce il ruolo fondamentale delle presupposizioni e il cruciale punto di contatto tra credenti e non credenti. Van Til cercò una metodologia costantemente cristiana nella sua apologetica, invitando i lettori a un esame più approfondito dei fondamenti della credenza.
Focusing on Christian ethics, this unpublished curriculum offers insights into the Ten Commandments as taught at Westminster Theological Seminary. It emphasizes the importance of understanding God's law and its contemporary relevance, making it essential for Christians aiming to deepen their faith and witness. The work highlights the necessity of these commandments in guiding moral conduct and spiritual life.
Van Til explores the implications of Christian theology, particularly for philosophy, as he discusses epistemology, general and special revelation, and the knowledge and attributes of God. Cornelius Van Til taught apologetics for more than forty-five years at Westminster Theological Seminary.
This syllabus claims with the historic Reformed creeds that the good is good because God in Christ through the Scriptures says it is good. Without the presupposition of the self-sufficient moral consciousness of the triune God revealed in Scripture, man's moral consciousness would operate in a vacuum. Part 1 deals with Christian Ethical Principles and Part II traces the development of apostate man's principle of "inwardness" or moral self-sufficiency in order to show that it has led and cannot but lead to moral chaos.