Before I read Van Til I didn’t read apologetics very much. I did quite a bit of apologetics, but found reading it dull and not very useful. I couldn’t get through reams of logic or piles of evidence without the realization that the next time I met a teenager with questions I would have no chance of even remembering what I had read let alone maintaining the attention of my interlocutor. Being committed to a presuppositional method I now lap up contributions on the subject. Here are a few I have read recently:God Is by Doug Wilson is a read-in-an-hour-or-two rough-shod ride over the pages of Christopher Hitchen’s God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.…
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A Positive Note
I realize that much of my time on my blog is spent refuting something or other. So, for a change, I thought I would write something more positive. And for this blogger, a positive blog comes in the form of positively reviewing three books by authors who are refuting something or other. The first is a short, funny narrative of Evangelist, the character of the narrator’s dream, who encounters people heading in the wrong direction. Doug Wilson constructs imaginary conversations between the Christian protagonist and several instantiated worldviews. At only 95 pages, Persuasions: A Dream of Reason Meeting Unbelief is simultaneously light hearted and deadly serious. Wilson attempts to show that even unbelief must presuppose God’s existence in order to hold…