Van Til shows that Barth’s universalism is a consistent manifestation of Barth’s dialectic, a fundamental approach that is grounded in modern philosophy, not in the Scriptures. Van Til takes issue with Barth because of his own commitment to the authority of the Word of God written. But Van Til never isolates the Scriptures from Christ, for the Scriptures are the Word of the Lord. Barthian theologians accuse orthodoxy of substituting a dead book for a living Lord, of constantly speaking about the