Paradox and Truth: Rethinking Van Til on the Trinity (Biblia.com)

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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 Two Van Til’s Doctrine of the Trinity1 Contrary to Plantinga, Van Til seems to revel in the appearance of contradiction. Rather than attempting to relieve the paradox or point the way for reconciliation, Van Til emphasizes it further by using language that is, at first glance, patently contradictory. It is sometimes asserted that we can prove to men that we are not asserting anything that they ought to consider irrational, inasmuch as we say that God is one in essence and three in person.

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