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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...

to have his centrality and authority questioned. “Touch not mine annointed,” he cries, when man’s final autonomy is challenged. Calvinism boldly accepts the relativism of man’s thinking. It clearly affirms the failure of reason, intuition, experience, and experimentalism apart from a guiding and valid faith. It declares that the history of epistemology, the theory of knowledge, shows that man is unable to account for even the normal everyday matters of experience by any of the multitude of philosophies
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