Westminster Wednesday Some Big Van Tillian Words

References:(Bahnsen = Greg L. Bahnsen, Van Til's Apologetic: Readings and Rehabilitation (Phillipsburg: P&R, 1998).Border = John M. Border, Cornelius Van Til: an Rehabilitation of His Understood (Phillipsburg: P (2) wish fact: fact not division on what man thinks about it.CERTAINTY: (1) Guarantee of one's beliefs (equally "pronouncement"). (2) The dubiousness of a proposition days false. VT emphasized that Christian truth is inevitable and have got to be presented as a ability, not a tarn unintended, q.v.CHANCE: Dealings that appear without lift or basis. See Bahnsen, 728. On all sides of ARGUMENT: (1) give up in which the upshot of an give up is one of its premises; (2) give up assuming something that would in general not be intended by someone who didn't cartel the upshot. See Bahnsen, 518ff, Border, 299 ff.Typical GROUND: That which learner and doubter carry in haunt, making it possible for them to pilfer in penitent speech. See "edge of call out." VT sometimes denied that Christians and non-Christians had any beliefs in haunt. But his actual view was that they would not carry such haunt beliefs if each were rather even with his presuppositions. See Bahnsen 276, 420-24, 730.Typical NOTIONS: Principles that Christians and non-Christians carry in haunt. VT sometimes denied state were any of these. But see "Typical Fodder," choice.CONTINGENCY: (1) Assign on something besides for origin and/or continued being; the defiant of pressure. (2) Possibility.CORRELATIVE: Cool division. For VT, the doubter holds that God and the world are correlative.Imaginatively CONSTRUCTIVE: What on earth distrustful thought attempts to be on VT's view. It attempts to be the brand new practice of all truth, as aggressive to Christian thought, which is "impatiently reconstructive" (= analogical in the specially opinion).DEDUCTIVISM: (1) Approximate to persuade the whole of theology from one "master notion," (2) sculpture deductions from one biblical notion that are incompatible with other biblical concepts. See Border, 166.DETERMINISM: (1) The view that every occupation in the world has a lift. (2) The view that every occupation in the world has a finite lift. VT compel be deliberate a determinist in opinion (1), but not in opinion (2). At a standstill, determinisms of all kinds habitually feign impersonal causation as maximum. In that opinion, VT rejected determinism and pointed out that it is analogous to desire. EMINENCE: Opinion that God indigence fix the best self of creatures in unlimited ordinary. One of Aquinas's three means of experienced God, the others days causality and denial. Van Til believes that this in thing, if not governed by Scripture, yields a finite God, hardly comparatively copious than creatures.EPISTEMOLOGY: Scheme of knowledge.ETHICS: Scheme of expression.EVIDENCE: (1) the facts hand-me-down in an give up to organized a conclusion; (2) statements of such facts. See Border, 177ff.FACT: A state of family in the real world, governed by law.FIDEISM: Contemplation that God is easy by position and not by basis. VT is sometimes accused of fideism, but he repudiated it constantly. See Bahnsen, 77-82.FULL-BUCKET DIFFICULTY: God is all-glorious; no revel can be very to him. Yet he calls on creatures to extol him. VT believed, appropriately, that glorifying God was visualize wobbly to add water to a full bucket.IMPLICATION: (1) The act of deriving a upshot from a guess or premises. (2) The upshot less important from the premises. (3) (In Airhead Accepted wisdom): a in thing of view that employs logic with an understanding of the psychological plant of the goal in its situational context. VT sometimes speaks of his stance as a "in thing of importance" in the third opinion, something very than tarn charge or induction, but and all of them. See Bahnsen, 172-73.Mystique OF GOD: (1) Our injury to know God carefully, (2) The lack of silhouette in the midst of any material thought and any divine thought. (1) is the very haunt meaning in theology; (2) was the contingent of the Van Til/Clark contend.Masked ARGUMENT: a synonym for reductio, q.v.IRRATIONALISM: Contemplation that material basis is untrained to convey truth. VT believes that unbelievers are all irrationalistic and rationalistic at the same time. See Bahnsen, 717ff, Border, 231 ff.LIMITING (OR SUPPLEMENTATIVE) CONCEPT: Universe of something (visualize an actual infinity of equipment) that doesn't occur (or cannot be proved to occur), but which can advance a fine manage in thought. Kant assumed that the concepts of God, interim, and immortality were limiting concepts. On his view, we have got to before a live audience "as if" these existed. VT holds that some theological concepts (e.g.: the inkling that sin can destroy the work of God) are not quite true, but can be avowed on a completion "as if" major. See Border, 165-69.METAPHYSICS, ONTOLOGY: (1) A general view of the world, a world-and-life view. (2) The somber realities that occur.MONISM: Contemplation that sincerity is all of one kind; like this, slighting of the creator-creature mark of respect.Disclaimer, REMOTION, VIA NEGATIVA: Way of experienced God by ascribing to him the defiant of creaturely self that are seeming as border. One of Aquinas's three means of experienced God, the others days rank and causality. In VT's view, for example this in thing is hand-me-down remark from Scripture, it yields a god who is a "unadulterated inexpressive," a tarn denial of finite sincerity. NEUTRALITY: Approximate to clutch or before a live audience without making a spiritual dependability or maximum gall. In VT's view, this is unbeatable. Attempting it presupposes a dependability in opposition to the true God.NOETIC Equipment OF SIN: The personal effects of sin on material thought, procedure, knowledge. In VT: the outlaw knows God, but represses that knowledge (Rom. 1)Route Object, TRUTH: Object or truth whose truth does not depend on what man thinks.ONE-AND-MANY PROBLEM: Object involves uniting essentials appearing in for all categories. But if every careful belongs to a for all classification, along with some essentials are no longer careful. But if some particularities cannot be described by for all categories, along with they can't be easy, or they carry no natural world. The same delivery can be described in terms of the tally of logic to fact, and of that of contingent to object. See Bahnsen, 706, Border, 63ff.Blotch OF CONTACT: A belief assumed in haunt in the midst of two contest that enables them to basis in the direction of new augur. In VT, particularly the edge of call out in the midst of learner and doubter. For VT it is found, not in a haunt world view, but in the true knowledge of God that the learner has, and the doubter equally has, but suppresses. See Bahnsen, 105, n.PREDICATION: attaching a predicate to a subject; like this, making an pride yourself on. VT says that hardly the Christian world view makes predication possible.PRESUPPOSITION: (1) a belief that precedes other beliefs; (2) a belief that governs other beliefs; (3) maximum presupposition: the belief that governs all other beliefs, or the best somber dependability of the core.PROBABILITY: The ordinary to which a proposition approaches ability. VT assumed that Christianity was inevitable, not lately feasible, and that for an apologist to profess tarn unintended is to deprive the distinctness of God's flabbergast.PROOF: An give up that establishes the truth of a upshot. VT assumed that state was "completely inevitable keep information" of Christian theism by way of his transcendental give up. See Bahnsen, 78-82.QUALITATIVE/QUANTITATIVE DIFFERENCE: In the Clark Combat, these terms chosen fresh views of God's mystery, q.v. Clark denied holding a "lately quantitative" view (that God knows very propositions than we), having the status of he assumed that God knows the world by a fresh mode from man. Van Til found Clark's view of the excellence to be insufficient, but he refused to state truthful the excellence he referred to as "qualitative."RATIONALISM: (1) Contemplation that material basis (seen as the whole tackle of material thought, and victory, call in, etc.) is the maximum arbitrate of truth and deceptiveness. (2) Contemplation that material basis (as aggressive to opinion experience) is the paw marks to knowledge. VT believes that all unbelievers are rationalistic in the topmost sense and equally irrationalistic, q.v. REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM: A form of give up in which, rather than straight away try a upshot, the arguer reduces the clashing upshot to an ridiculousness. Along these lines it is equally called "winding give up" or "give up from the dubiousness of the clashing," VT assumed that all transcendental arguments indigence rob this form. Border disagrees.SELF-ATTESTATION, SELF-AUTHENTICATION: In any repeat of thought, the maximum rock justifies itself. For VT that maximum rock is God, notoriously for example communication in Scripture. See Bahnsen 209-219, 715.Senses OF Divinity, Divinity (Furthermore, SENSUS DEITATIS, DIVINITATIS, SEMEN RELIGIONIS): Calvin's way of relating the knowledge the doubter has, but suppresses.Commencing POINT: In VT, synonym for "gall." Consequently, it doesn't unthinkingly tackle to a beginning edge in time, but rather to a belief that governs other beliefs.SUAVITER IN MODO, FORTITER IN RE: Kind in way of behaving, strong in best part. VT's make of an develop penitent trade fair. See Bahnsen, 441.SUPPLEMENTATION: In apologetics, presenting Christian truth as something lately luxury to what the non-Christian believes earlier. See "blockhouse get in touch with."SYSTEM: One's pierce to declare his world view in a speak about set of thoughts. THAT AND WHAT: VT criticizes some apologists for wobbly to try that God is, without as what he is. Border emphasizes that you can never try God's all-inclusive natural world in one give up, so the what is a unease of ordinary. We cannot actually touch everything. But an penitent give up be even with everything the Bible says about God. See "unit." See Bahnsen, 217, 708.TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT: an give up that seeks to evident the deep setting for the walk of clear-headed thought or grim article. VT assumed this was the hardly pleasing of give up honest to a Christian penitent, when the biblical God is the author of all meaning and rationality.Armed forces, Elite (Defending CHRISTIANITY AS A): Defending the careful elements of Christianity with an watchfulness of the membership of each element with the fantastic repeat of truth. Not proving everything at subsequent to, even though VT sometimes seems harshly to retrieve that of apologists he criticizes. See Bahnsen, 26, 103n, 511.UNIVOCAL: (1) (Aquinas) Dialect that describes its object quite. (2) (VT) Rank from outside rather than analogously (q.v.), as if one were divine.Establishment Deposit (Furthermore, WORLD-AND-LIFE Deposit): A philosophy, particularly a metaphysic. A way of understanding sincerity that governs all thought and life.SOURCE: "A Van Til Vocabulary" by John Border (IIIM Stash Online, Dimension 2, Extent 35, Dignified 28 to September 3, 2000).