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Van Til writes in the Preface, “It is obvious that such philosophies as materialism and pragmatism are foes of Christianity. It is less obvious but no less true that Idealism and Christianity are mutually exclusive. Christianity teaches man to worship and serve God the Creator. Idealism, no less than materialism or pragmatism, teaches man to serve and worship the creature. Idealism has a language...

The same shibboleth can serve to distinguish Pragmatism from Theism for the sufficient reason that Christianity is Theism in a world of sin. Christ is God. Principles of value proceed from him because he is God. God is the source of all value as well as its standard. But for Pragmatism value exists independently of God as well as of Christ. More than that, “The purpose of God is the attainment of value in the temporal world.”3 The temporal universe is said to be a wider concept than God. God is
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