Sublime

There can be no understanding of Cornelius Van Til apart from this premise. Autonomy, literally self-law, is man’s attempt to supplant God’s law with his own, which, however much in many versions makes claims to be godly and moral, separates itself from the God of Scripture. Man becomes the determiner of “law,” which is more opinion than law. Theon

“pluriformity.”

When our systematic theology comes into conflict with the Bible, the former needs to be modified, not the latter.

there has been little agreement among Christian scholars concerning the rudimentary principles of biblical interpretation.

the apostle Paul exhorts, “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.”

unchanged from the original published forms, although I have made a few adjustments - such as adding some additional footnotes and providing section headings in those essays where there were none in the original.In the subtitle I have chosen for this volume, I have characterized my various explorations as being in Kuyper's "line." The exp