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Paradox and Truth: Rethinking Van Til on the Trinity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reformed theology has seen increasing calls for the Trinity to live at the center of Christian confession, prompting the need for a fuller biblical and practical understanding of the subject. In recent Reformed thought, Cornelius Van Til and Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. have proposed important Trinitarian theologies. Ralph Smith assesses these views and, filling out a Van Tilian perspective with...

Chapter Three Comparing Van Til with Plantinga Comparing Van Til’s approach to Plantinga’s reveals more agreement than one might first expect. Perhaps the most significant area of agreement is in the understanding of the idea of a person. Here Van Til and Plantinga stand together against Barth, Rahner, and other modern theologians who deny individual, self-conscious awareness to the three persons of the Trinity. For Barth, God is one subject. For both Van Til and Plantinga, God is also three subjects.
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