Veritas Domain: While admitting the role of presuppositions and worldviews makes things “circular” in one’s reasoning as in the sense of it being in one’ system of beliefs, Van Til elsewhere has also shared the kind of argumentation needed to get around this potential impasse:
The Christian apologist must place himself upon the position of his opponent, assuming the correctness of his method merely for argument’s sake, in order to show him that on such a position the “facts” are not facts and the “laws” are not laws. He must also ask the non-Christian to place himself upon the Christian position for argument’s sake in order that he may be shown that only upon such a basis do “facts” and “laws” appear intelligible…
Introduction
I was unable to attend RC Sproul’s session at the Inerrancy Summit. After Sproul’s message there were several guys at the Conference that asked me what I thought about Sproul’s swipe against Presuppositional apologetics.
I finally got to see the video and if you want to see it yourself the video is below:
I thought it was ironic that Sproul spoke out against Presuppositional apologetics at the Inerrancy Summit in which many of the other speakers and audience subscribe to Presuppositionalism.
In what follows I can only give a quick response to Sproul’s objection found within the first eight minutes. However, I think the brief summary written here does pose serious challenges to Sproul’s objections to Presuppositionalism.
Issue #1: Did Sproul accurately represent Presuppositional apologetics’ argument?
Sproul’s discussion of Presuppositionalism first identified two proponents of Presuppositionalism: Gordon Clark and Cornelius Van Til. Keep this in mind as we want to see…
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Wow thank you
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I am perplexed with R.C’s misreps.
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I am perplexed too with Sproul with this area of Presup
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You watched Sproul’s and Bahnsen’s debate, right?
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Very long ago I need to listen to it again
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Will share this on various social media later today (10/3/22)
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Thank you.
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YW
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