How can God be three and one? How can God take on a human nature? If God planned everything, how can I be responsible? Do my prayers make any difference in God's plan? Christians may attempt to "know" God to the best of their ability--leading some to limit God as they contain Him within tidy answers for human understanding. In The Majesty of Mystery, K. Scott Oliphint encourages believers to embrace the mysteries of Christian faith: the Trinity, the incarnation, eternal life, and the balance between God's sovereign will and human choices....
How can God be three and one? How can God take on a human nature? If God planned everything, how can I be responsible? <...
The Trinity and the Vindication of Christian Paradox grapples with the question of how one may hold together the ideals of systematic theology, apologetic proof, and theological paradox by building on the insights of Cornelius Van Til. Van Til developed an apologetic where one presupposes that the triune God exists, and then proves this Christian presupposition by demonstrating that philosophies that deny it are self-defeating in the specific sense that they rely on principles that only the Trinity, as the ultimate harmony of unity and diversity, can furnish. A question raised by Van Til's...
The Trinity and the Vindication of Christian Paradox grapples with the question of how one may hold together the ideals of systematic theology, apolog...
In this retypeset syllabus for Van Til's Christian Evidences class, he argues for the defense of a full-fledged Christianity, unadulterated by a scientific methodology based on non-Christian assumptions. Instead, he offers a Christian philosophy and methodology for defending the faith that starts with the absolute authority of the triune God. Edited and annotated by K. Scott Oliphint.
In this retypeset syllabus for Van Til's Christian Evidences class, he argues for the defense of a full-fledged Christianity, unadulterated by a scien...
The Christian life depends upon faith, but there are good reasons for that faith. In Know Why You Believe professor and author K. Scott Oliphint answers the "why" questions both Christians and non-Christians often ask, laying out a simple and convincing case for the core teachings of Christianity.
As part of the KNOW series, Know Why You Believe is designed for personal study or classroom use, but also for small groups and Sunday schools wanting to better understand the traditional defenses of Christian belief. Each chapter covers a foundational teaching and...
The Christian life depends upon faith, but there are good reasons for that faith. In Know Why You Believe professor and author K. Scott Ol...