Antestructural Theology

I have recently been working on a thesis that I hope to publish as a master's thesis. I don't know yet if I want to publish it at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, or whether I want to work on it at Westminster. However, this is not why I am writing this pithy explanation of the thesis I am working on. But as an update, I want my readers to note this work since it concerns the historic debate on what Calvinism is and is not. As a subject of method, it is called "Antestructural Theology" which is also derived by Calvin's idea found in Book I of his Institutes. The idea is basic: that men are flanked with God in the image of everyday life that it is almost impossible to doubt the theology of God. My influences here are obviously Calvin and the Reformers. However, the specific polemical work is influenced immensely by the works of Cornelius Van Til, Greg L. Bahnsen, and John M. Frame. The reason I called it antestructural is entirely based on the idea of "before thinking." Calvin calls it the sense of divinity. Van Til called it the presuppositional method. Why then do I write something that has already been propounded? This is an obvious question which deserves no answer, or so it seems. However I divert on the issues of Law and polemical doxology. There is a lot of loaded language I'm using here, but at the very outset, it is a method so similar to Dr. Van Til that one can almost see no difference. In the first, I deal with the influence of Reformed views of law, a primary witnesses, of course, being Bahnsen and R.J. Rushdoony. In the latter—that which I refer to as polemical doxology—is ecclesiastical in nature, namely dealing with the creedal aspect of Reformed thought. I call it the glory of the creeds, i.e., polemical doxology. I will be outlining my thesis as I work with it along with other Reformed theologians from various seminaries. I am not saying that I do not have a scope of the thesis; however, I am saying that I have my scope—with the flaws of current reformed orthodoxy—and am seeking to clarify it.