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Reforming Apologetics

J.V. Fesko, Reforming Apologetics: Retrieving the Classic Reformed Approach to Defending the Faith. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2019. 250pp. Paperback. Christians often polarize one another over their approaches to apologetics. While different apologetic schools compete for dominance in Reformed…

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Reforming Apologetics

J.V. Fesko, Reforming Apologetics: Retrieving the Classic Reformed Approach to Defending the Faith. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2019. 250pp. Paperback. Christians often polarize one another over their approaches to apologetics. While different apologetic schools compete for dominance in Reformed…

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Reforming Apologetics

J.V. Fesko, Reforming Apologetics: Retrieving the Classic Reformed Approach to Defending the Faith. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2019. 250pp. Paperback. Christians often polarize one another over their approaches to apologetics. While different apologetic schools compete for dominance in Reformed…

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Van Mastricht on the Scholastics

While reading through Petrus Van Mastrichts’ Theoretical-Practical Theology, I was intrigued to find his thoughts concerning scholastic theology. In his section on “the Nature of Theology,” Van Mastricht wrote: “It is asked, must theology be taught according to a certain…

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Aquinas Reconsidered (Part 3)

It is in Oliphint’s final critique of Aquinas’ views on natural reason and philosophy in their relation to theology that the source of his misreading of Aquinas becomes clear. The assumption that Aquinas, given his attachment to Aristotle, attempted to…

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Aquinas Reconsidered (Part 3)

It is in Oliphint’s final critique of Aquinas’ views on natural reason and philosophy in their relation to theology that the source of his misreading of Aquinas becomes clear. The assumption that Aquinas, given his attachment to Aristotle, attempted to…

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Aquinas Reconsidered (Part 3)

This is the third and final installement of Dr. Muller’s review of Thomas Aquinas by K. Scott Oliphint. Read part one here, and part two here. It is in Oliphint’s final critique of Aquinas’ views on natural reason and philosophy in their relation to theology that…

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Aquinas Reconsidered (Part 2)

Oliphint’s discussion of Aquinas’ view of God draws heavily on the claims of Cornelius Van Til, one of whose basic points of critique is that Aquinas’ “idea of the analogy of being compromises the biblical doctrine of creation.”1 In Van…

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Aquinas Reconsidered (Part 2)

Oliphint’s discussion of Aquinas’ view of God draws heavily on the claims of Cornelius Van Til, one of whose basic points of critique is that Aquinas’ “idea of the analogy of being compromises the biblical doctrine of creation.”1 In Van…

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Aquinas Reconsidered (Part 2)

Note: This is the second part of Richard A. Muller’s review of Thomas Aquinas by K. Scott Oliphint. Read part one here. Oliphint’s discussion of Aquinas’ view of God draws heavily on the claims of Cornelius Van Til, one of whose basic…