The Defense of the Faith - 4th Edition,Annotated by Cornelius Van Til (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Restoring the full text of the original 1955 work, this annotated edition sets forth and explains a method of apologetics that is consistent with the nature of Christianity.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>As an assigned text in my introductory systematics course, The Defense of the Faith typically meets with a combination of frustration and delight. Frustrating because Van Til often engages ideas, terms, and conversation partners unknown to contemporary (especially non-Reformed) readers, this work also has a cumulatively delightful effect in exposing the pretensions of human autonomy and the grandeur of God's sovereign grace. In his careful, thorough, and sympathetic notes, Professor Oliphint has done us all a tremendous service: turning down the frustration and turning up the delight!--Michael S. Horton, Ph.D. J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics Westminster Seminary California<br><br>Cornelius Van Til's The Defense of the Faith (1955) was his first published apologetic, therefore of great importance to Van Til interpreters. But for many it was difficult, even bewildering. Van Til's vocabulary was not only philosophical, but idealist, at a time when idealism was no longer in vogue. And many of Van Til's conversation partners and critics were not widely known then, and are even less known today. So later editions greatly abridged the Defense, with loss of valuable content. But now the original version is back, with Scott Oliphint's excellent introduction and many explanatory footnotes. Now Van Til becomes much more understandable, and his opponents too. The dialogues between Van Til and the other figures become really exciting again. How stimulating it must have been to have been part of that dialogue in the early days of Reformed apologetics! We need that stimulus now, even more than they did in the 1950s, if we are to deal with unbelief in a God-honoring way.--John M. Frame, professor of systematic theology and philosophy, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando<br><br>If Cornelius Van Til is the most original apologist of the twentieth century, The Defense of the Faith is arguably his most important book. This new edition provides an enormous service to the reader. The somewhat challenging the text is abundantly illuminated by Scott Oliphint, who is no doubt the leading expert on Van Til in our times.--William Edgar, Professor of Apologetics, Westminster Theological Seminary<br>
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