Reformed Apologetics: Revelation, Van Til, Bavinck and the Scottish Evidences
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A defense of the faith on Reformed foundations: the knowledge of God in creation and conscience (WCF 1.1; Belgic 2), Bavinck on general and special revelation, Van Til's method and the older Scottish tradition of the evidences. Students learn to state each approach fairly and to test it against the confessions.
These lists, taken from the school's verified research, are studied on your own at your own pace. The school's own classes, written as full teaching, open one at a time.
How to begin
- Enroll with a free account so the school keeps your place.
- Open the first class, lecture or reading and follow the order of the syllabus.
- Mark each lecture, reading and assignment complete when you finish it.
- Choose a weekly study goal to see when you will finish.
Syllabus
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Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.
- Herman Bavinck's Trinitarian Theology and Organic Apologetic (Christ the Center) Dan Ragusa (with Camden Bucey) 55 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Messiah's Reformed Fellowship (URCNA), Manhattan, per the page link
- The Trinity, Image of God, and Apologetics: Bavinck's Consistently Reformed Defense of the Faith Jim Cassidy 64 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Orthodox Presbyterian Church (recorded at the 2016 Reformed Forum Theology Conference, Hope OPC, Grayslake, Illinois) American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
- Van Til's Common Grace and the Gospel (Christ the Center) K. Scott Oliphint 55 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia (professor of apologetics and systematic theology) PCA minister (American text). In 2018 his presbytery examined charges concerning his language about God's 'covenantal properties' and found no strike against the Standards; the matter is intramural and not among the listed disqualifiers. Keep as doctrinal; note on the page. American subscribers (1788 text). None of...
- Apologetics and Pastoral Ministry (interview with David Robertson) David Robertson (with Nick Batzig) 37 min (archive.org file ctc073.mp3, 2213 s; the file streams, HTTP 206) Open source Doctrinal St Peter's Free Church, Dundee (Free Church of Scotland), per the description
- Reason, Revelation, and Calvin's View of Natural Theology (Christ the Center) Jim Cassidy and Camden Bucey 61 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Orthodox Presbyterian Church ministry (Reformed Forum) Reads the OPC (American) text of the Larger Catechism. The 1647 text of WLC 109 lists 'tolerating a false religion' among the sins forbidden by the second commandment; the American text omits it. Keep as primary-text with the note; the 1757 Glasgow printing is the reference wording and the Standards reader must show...
Total: 4.5 hours