theology; he is first of all a theologian.13 In the “Credo” Van Til marks out a simple but critical step. If Reformed theology begins with the self-attesting Christ of Scripture, Reformed apologetics should do the same thing. His critique of the traditional apologetic, even among Reformed apologists, is that it has failed to do so. Instead, it has admitted the very view of human autonomy that is rejected in the theology it seeks to defend. This has happened, as Van Til points out, even with the apologists