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By What Standard? An Analysis of the Philosophy of Cornelius Van Til is unavailable, but you can change that!

R.J. Rushdoony’s first book, published originally in 1959, gives an analysis of the philosophy of Cornelius Van Til. Central to this study is the belief that the presuppositions of human thought in every field must be basically one in order to arrive at any concept which both validates biblical faith and human knowledge. The sovereignty of the self-contained God is the key to every field, in...

the chapter on Holy Scripture and asserts, “The authority of the Holy Scripture … (or of its miracles) … dependeth not upon the testimony of any man, or church, but wholly upon God, who is truth itself, the author thereof, and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God.” What depends on man and his reason or testimony, is less than man, and what depends on God is less than God. It is reason and man that depend on God, not God, His Word, or His miracles, that depend on man or reason.
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