Two theological accounts of logic: theistic conceptual realism and a reformed archetype-ectype model

Sutanto, Nathaniel Gray

doi:10.1007/s11153-015-9543-0

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“…It should be noted that some recent interpreters of Van Til emphasize other streams of thought as highly influential in Van Til's views, namely the biblical theology of Geerhardus Vos on the one hand (Baird 2015;Dennison 2015;Fluhrer 2015, 168-83), and the dogmatics of Reformed scholasticism on the other (Van Asselt 2002;Oliphint 2015;Sutanto 2016). An overlapping set of scholars also doubt that Van Til really endorsed a "formal" argument like TACT, and claim that philosophical proof is alien to the Reformed thought which Van Til represents.…”

Section: Cornelius Van Tilmentioning

confidence: 99%

Van Til versus Stroud: Is the Transcendental Argument for Christian Theism Viable?

Békefi

2018

TheoLogica

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In this paper I introduce the transcendental argument for Christian theism in the context of Reformed theologian and philosopher Cornelius Van Til’s thought. I then present the critique proffered by Barry Stroud against ambitious transcendental arguments, and survey various formulations of transcendental arguments in the literature, seeking how the objection bears upon them. I argue that Adrian Bardon’s (2005) interpretation is the most helpful in understanding the Stroudian objection. From this interpretation, two types of possible rebuttals are deduced. Proceeding to survey the responses offered by Van Tillians to this objection in the recent literature, I discern two general strategies pursued in these responses, which map onto the previously deduced types of rebuttals: the Biblical justification strategy and the objection-undermining strategy. I argue that all the specific attempts to answer Stroud which I examine here (those of Butler, Bosserman, and Fluhrer) are inadequate and that these two strategies, in general, face serious problems. I conclude with considering the options before the proponent of the transcendental argument for Christian theism and with offering a new objection to the argument, which focuses on its inconsistency with the implications of Christian theism itself.

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Section: Cornelius Van Tilmentioning

confidence: 99%