Cornelius Van Til Over the course of five years of study I have read a lot of books. Some I remember, some I don’t, but very few books have forced me to make a paradigmatic shift in my thinking. The writings of Dutch Calvinist, Cornelius Van Til, however, manage that trick amply. Van Til was professor of Apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary and revolutionized his field. Van Til’s idea is remarkably simple, but commonly misunderstood. Van Til’s suggestion was that human experience, rationality, intelligibility and meaning is only possible if Christian Theism is true. In other words, the truth of Christian Theism is the necessary condition for the possibility of human experience. James Anderson, who teaches at Reformed Theological Seminary and…