0:00 Review – The Different Kinds Of Proof: RATIONALIST; EMPIRICIST; PRAGMATIST; TRANSCENDENTAL…GLB Reads Van Till (VT) Illustrates Transcendental Reasoning To Prove The Existence Of GOD In His Booklet, WHY I BELIEVE IN GOD
0:44 PAGE 10, (Above The Sub-Section) “OBJECTIONS RAISED” VT’s Conversation With Unbeliever…THE CRUCIAL SENTENCE: “…What Sort Of GOD It Is Of Which I Am Speaking To You.”
2:03 TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENTS (TA) – As They’re Used By Christian Apologists- AREN’T ABSTRACT ARGUMENTS…VT Is Specifically Talking About THE CHRISTIAN GOD (THE ALL CONDITIONER/CONTROLLER)
4:10 VT Wrings Philosophical Conclusions From THE CHRISTIAN GOD’s Attributes, Namely—GOD GIVES MEANING
5:13 PAGE 18, “WHAT SORT OF GOD I BELIEVE IN” …PREDESTINATION & THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THE UNBELIEVER…GOD GIVES MEANING TO TRUE REASONING—True Reasoning About GOD Is Such As Stands Upon GOD As Upon The Emplacement That Alone Gives Meaning To Any Sort Of Human Argument…(THUS, DESTROYING “HUMAN AUTONOMY”)
7:39 i.e., Any Argument Assumes GOD In Order To Be Intelligible
8:01 GLB Answers Student’s Question Regarding An “Alternative Explanation” For THE PRECONDITIONS OF INTELLIGIBILITY (TPOI)…THERE’S NO ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION FOR TPOI OTHER THAN THE CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW (TCWV)…Preparatory Remarks Regarding Objections To TA
9:15 GLB Expands His Answer, Showing How The Unbeliever May Attempt To Argue Against The Believer By Breaking Up TCWV Into Parts & Debating Selected Portions…eg, Using LOGIC As Their Transcendental Alternative…But, GLB Points Out That The Unbeliever’s WV Must Have A View Of The Human Mind (THAT’S FOUND ONLY IN TCWV) Relating LOGIC To The Contingent World
9:55 …Therefore, The Unbelieving Philosophers Today Have Abandoned WV Analysis…GLB Revisits, Reasoning…Then Resumes VT Where He Notes The Unbelieving Philosopher’s Unwillingness To Deal With His TA For GOD
11:52 “YOU KNOW THERE’S NO UNITY IN YOUR LIFE.” (THE PROBLEM OF THE ONE & THE MANY) VT Points Out That The Unbeliever’s WV Cannot Account For The Coexistence Of Unity & Diversity…GLB Revisits The Point About LOGIC & The Unbeliever’s WV’s Insufficiency To Account For How It’s Possible To Use It
15:06 On The Believer’s WV Diversity & Unity Meet In THE MIND OF THE LORD (Rom 11:36). GOD’s MIND Is The Transcendental Background To The Constant Unchanging Principles Of Logic & The Changing Details Of History…The Unbeliever (On The Other Hand, With Their Approach) Makes Nonsense Of Their Own Experience
15:53 VT Views The Unbeliever As THE PRODIGAL At The Intellectual Swine Trough…Gordon Stein
17:14 VT Expands How TCWV Accounts For Unity In His Changing Experiences, & NOT BY AUTONOMOUS REASON
18:57 VT’s Notion Of, ANALOGICAL KNOWING…Thinking GOD’s Thoughts After HIM…Seeing Unity & Particularity…VT Views The Unbeliever As Standing On Their Heads, & Despite This, They See A Lot Of Truth…Therefore, The Challenge Is To Turn Their Reports Right-Side Up, Where GOD (Instead Of Man) Is At The Center Of Their WV & We Won’t Be Reduced To Skepticism & Subjectivism At Every Point
21:59 VT Exclaims TCWV Offers A Unity To Reasoning Which Is Big Enough To Account Even For The Unbeliever’s Thinking…eg, Child Sitting On Her Father’s Lap. VT Returns To Point Of THE ALL CONDITIONER (CHRIST OR CHAOS)
24:28 PREVIEW
24:40 RECAP (NOTE: GLB DOES A WONDERFUL JOB SIMPLIFYING THE PREVIOUS INFO: A MUST LISTEN!!)
27:39 GLB Stresses The Impotence Of Understanding Concepts Through Studying & Mastering Terms In Theology & Philosophy
28:38 TRANSCENDENTAL aka Method Of Implication, To Know Something As True Within Terms Of A Coherent Theory Of Other Truths
31:42 INDUCTIVE & DEDUCTIVE METHOD Of Knowing As Understood by The Christian & Non-Christian…(GOD Has To Be Presupposed To Do Either…More In PICS RECAP & THE ABSOLUTE GOD)
32:57 GLB Expands Into The History Of Knowing (EPISTEMOLOGY)…How Should We Picture Ourselves As Knowers?
33:31 eg, Plato – Recollection/Intuiting
34:37 eg, Aristotle – Abstractive
36:21 eg, Locke & Kant – Passive & Active Mind
38:22 VT’s Christian Picture Of Knowing Is That We Think GOD’s Thoughts After HIM…GLB Expands This To GOD’s Thoughts As Recorded In Scripture; The World; Conceptual Order; Logical Order; Causal Order; Ethical Evaluation; Aesthetic Judgments; etc.
41:35 PICS Of KNOWING RECAP
44:18 Irving M.Copi (philosopher and logician) BTW, GLB Recommends Reading His Book, INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC
46:25 A TRULY TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT
51:31 THE ABSOLUTE GOD
55:12 GLB Uses An Illustration In Ethics To Help Students Grasp How GOD Is Presupposed To Generate ANY ARGUMENT
59:52 Idolatry
1:02:02 Natural Law
1:04:07 THE BIG BUTTON 🙂 …The TA Seeks to Discover What Sort Of Foundation The House Of Human Knowledge Must Have In Order To Be What It Is…
1:09:08 A TRULY TRASCENDENT GOD & A TRANSCENDENTAL METHOD GO HAND IN HAND
- Four Types of Proof (1 of 10)
- Van Til’s Why I Believe in God (2 of 10)
- Kant in Context (3 of 10)
- Contemporary Transcendental Arguments, Part 1 (4 of 10)
- Contemporary Transcendental Arguments, Part 2 (5 of 10)
- Summary of Transcendental Arguments, Part 1 (6 of 10)
- Summary of Transcendental Arguments, Part 2 (7 of 10)
- Apologetical Transcendental Argument (8 of 10)
- Back to Basics (9 of 10)
- Van Til’s Critics: Hoover, Dooyeweerd, Frame (10 of 10)
