The Calvinist International
I. Complementarianism For Real “If gender is just a term in grammar, how can I ever find my way/ When I’m a stranger here myself?” –Kurt Weill, One Touch of Venus What follows is a kind of prolegomena to any future complementarian squabbling, or possibly a groundwork for the metaphysics of tango. It’s very incomplete […]
Theodorus seems to be a pretty good guesser about your nature. For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy… .[1] It may be an understatement to say that these days, the study of religion has a cause for serious self-reflection. The point at issue […]
In The Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer gives a “plain man’s” definition of reality, what common sense indicates to everyone is true about the world outside himself. Lest the reader think that he inadvertently dispenses with the need for God’s being as the source and ground of all other being, read on. What do I mean […]
Thinkers have sometimes stated that scripture is not metaphysical, or does not do metaphysics. This is obviously correct in one sense: the writings of the Bible are not generally characterized by philosophical jargon, but rather for the most part appear in everyday language. However, this statement is not true in another sense: the Bible does […]
Pastor Wilson has a helpful post here explaining his own relationship with Van Til, and I thought that, given my distant and recent past, I should do something of the same. Of course, I am a far less significant figure than Pastor Wilson, and my own pilgrimage shouldn’t be seen as all that important in the […]
We are very excited to see that the L’Abri ideas library has archived a huge collection of Dr. Schaeffer’s lectures on Mp3. While we do occasionally disagree with Dr. Schaeffer’s cultural critiques, we hold his theology and basic philosophy in the highest regard, especially his defense of “real reality” and its knowability by all men, […]
Francis Schaeffer was sometimes known as a “presuppositionalist,” but the more strict presuppositionalists always denied that he fit the bill. While not sharing the same value estimation of this verdict, and depending on how one defines the terms, I have to say that I agree with them. As important as Schaeffer viewed worldviews and religious […]