Monday, June 15, 2009

Cornelius Van Til, Predilection, and Reason

I just about finished editing a new video for my blog. Unfortunately it's still being finished by YouTube, so all I do is post the link here. There are some prepatory remarks that I think are helpful here before you click the link I'm about to post. Think about information and knowledge for a second. If one has knowledge—and everyone does—how sound is that knowledge? How does it become knowledge from belief (the classic definition of epistemological knowledge)? And if it is true knowledge, does God know the same amount, or is it significantly different? If they (knowledge claims) are univocal (=different), do they at some point—like parallel lines—meet? Or are they so similar that there is absolutely no difference, to the point that God only knows more? These are the very foundations of belief (=epistemology) in the debate between Van Til and Clark. However, my opinion is more broad, dealing with the notion of unbelievers' knowledge claims and the way in which they condemn Christian belief as "warrented Christian belief" (see Faith and Rationality, A. Plantinga & N. Wolsterstorff).

Here's the link

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