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Cornelius Van Til presents this volume to pastors, hoping to encourage them as they instruct young people who are influenced by modern schools of thought. It is important for a pastor to be acquainted with schools of modern thought, including science, philosophy, and religion, and all the while maintain their foundation on the ways of Christianity, which provides them the tool of critical...

Romanism takes away from the clarity of the revelation of God so far as this revelation surrounds man. (2) Romanism does not think of the image of God in man exclusively in terms of creation and providence and redemption through Christ. It thinks of man, in part at least, in terms of Aristotle’s notion of the analogy of being. Accordingly, man is thought of as having an inherent weakness—a bias towards sin. Man, as created, lives on the verge of non-being. On an Aristotelian basis, non-being is evil.
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