<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Light in Dark Places]]></title><description><![CDATA[Light in Dark Places]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/lightindarkplaces</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:37:20 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.keithmathison.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Top Ten Biographies of Martin Luther]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are probably more books written about Martin Luther than any other prominent figure of the Reformation. In 2017, the anniversary of the posting of the 95 theses, several more biographies were added to the already intimidating list. It occurred to me a while back that I have ten biographies of Luther on my bookshelves, and given that ten is a nice round number, I thought it might make good material for a blog post.  The original idea was to rank the biographies I own in a "Top Ten" list...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/top-ten-biographies-of-martin-luther</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cc0783f7044e6cf7a312a5</guid><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:38:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_39573de9b9df46cf8babc6b2006a1e48~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recommended Books for Understanding the Westminster Confession of Faith - Updated and Expanded]]></title><description><![CDATA[Although published in the middle of the seventeenth century, the Westminster Confession of Faith remains one of the most important confessional standards in existence. It, along with the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, is the confessional standard of numerous denominations such as the OPC, the PCA, and the ARP. The Confession did not, however, appear in a vacuum. Just as it is important to understand the Arminian controversy if one is to fully understand the Canons of the Synod of Dort, it is...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/recommended-books-for-understanding-the-westminster-confession-of-faith-updated-and-expanded</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69badd84c22e90b51af3b2d1</guid><category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:12:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_65bfe1a47bc04fc49e239e0fd265e6f1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cornelius Van Til &#38; Lane Tipton]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friend Dr. Lane Tipton contacted me yesterday informing me that a post I had written titled "Are All Van Tillians Equal?" suggested that he was or is sympathetic to the serious theological errors of Scott Oliphint regarding the attributes of God. I thought I had made it clear in that post that neither he, Camden Bucey, nor myself were or are sympathetic to Oliphint's teaching on those doctrines, but I was wrong. It wasn't 100% clear to every reader. So I apologize to Dr. Tipton, to Camden,...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/cornelius-van-til-lane-tipton</link><guid isPermaLink="false">699629c64c11d313e895b2cd</guid><category><![CDATA[Van Til]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:16:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_8edb5d5c935344ddaf44474d1865da11~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_847,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anselm's Pursuit of Joy]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don’t know how many times I have read chapters 2 and 3 of the Proslogion  since my time in college, but the number is large. I had to read those chapters in philosophy classes and in theology classes. I had to read them several times during my time in seminary, and I’ve read them numerous times since then. Never was I assigned the entirety of the Proslogion , but eventually I read it on my own. I don't think I was ever completely sure how to fit all of the pieces together, but I knew I...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/anselm-s-pursuit-of-joy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">695d2e68bdb7a40d88d8a8a2</guid><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:26:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_2ea37716b8f24a67b901542f4bbadca7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_667,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Incomprehensibility of Van Til]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my response to the second part of the Reformed Forum’s ongoing critique of my book on Cornelius Van Til, I touched briefly on their claim that not all Van Tillians agree in their interpretation of Van Til. I had already acknowledged this in the introduction to my book when I briefly surveyed six different schools of Van Tillianism, but there is a bit more to say on this point. Consider for a moment the fact that some eighty years ago, Van Til dropped a bomb in the American Reformed world...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/on-the-incomprehensibility-of-van-til</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6954237d3005d37b905dd7ba</guid><category><![CDATA[Van Til]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:30:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_8edb5d5c935344ddaf44474d1865da11~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_847,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Response to the Reformed Forum on Cornelius Van Til: Part Two]]></title><description><![CDATA[For those readers of my blog who may have stumbled across this post and who do not know what this is all about, I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the context before reading this post. Otherwise, this post isn’t going to make a lot of sense. Here is a brief rundown of the relevant context. In November 2024, my book Toward a Reformed Apologetics: A Critique of the Thought of Cornelius Van Til  was published. It is, as the subtitle indicates, a critique of the teaching of Cornelius...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/a-response-to-the-reformed-forum-on-cornelius-van-til-part-two</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6948719a54f477c1ea14a490</guid><category><![CDATA[Van Til]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:00:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_8edb5d5c935344ddaf44474d1865da11~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_847,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recommended Books for Understanding the Westminster Confession of Faith]]></title><description><![CDATA[Although published in the middle of the seventeenth century, the Westminster Confession of Faith remains one of the most important confessional standards in existence. It, along with the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, is the confessional standard of numerous denominations such as the OPC, the PCA, and the ARP. The Confession did not, however, appear in a vacuum. Just as it is important to understand the Arminian controversy if one is to fully understand the Canons of the Synod of Dort, it is...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/recommended-books-for-understanding-the-westminster-confession-of-faith</link><guid isPermaLink="false">693f5d535e4dba941729d2cd</guid><category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:00:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_65bfe1a47bc04fc49e239e0fd265e6f1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Top 10 Books of 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's that time of year again. Time for various bibliophiles to compile lists of their favorite books from the previous year in the hope that they can encourage other readers to pick up one or more of these favorites and agree.  My reading this last year was skewed to some extent because I had to do a new course prep. That means most of my reading was related to one particular topic. I still managed, however, to read a variety of things unrelated to that topic. As in the past, I am not...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/my-top-10-books-of-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">693ac117d9082182116e2866</guid><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:42:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_7b176e8bb75f46508e1bf6d4e06ccf72~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does 1 Corinthians 2:6–16 Support Cornelius Van Til's System of Thought? An Examination of Richard Gaffin's 1995 Journal Article]]></title><description><![CDATA[Throughout its history, the Westminster Theological Journal published many articles written by Cornelius Van Til, and it also published many articles written about Van Til. The Spring 1995 issue of the journal, which commemorated the one hundredth birthday of Van Til, was unique in that the entire issue was devoted to articles related to his system of thought. This issue included articles by notable presuppositionalist scholars such as Greg L. Bahnsen, John M. Frame, William Edgar, K. Scott...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/does-1-corinthians-2-6-16-support-cornelius-van-til-s-system-of-thought-an-examination-of-richard-g</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67e03deb6800077ef7eff7f1</guid><category><![CDATA[Van Til]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:00:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_42029cd11a2e429baa233bc58cd43073~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_960,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answering More Questions About Toward a Reformed Apologetics: Is Chapter 6 Consistent with Chapters 1-5? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my previous blog post, I mentioned that on the November 27, 2024 episode of Kevin DeYoung’s podcast  “Life, Books, and Everything,” Dr. DeYoung invited me and Dr. James Anderson to discuss my book about Cornelius Van Til. I then mentioned the two podcasts aired by the Reformed Forum on February 7 and 8 which were devoted to a criticism of my book. As I mentioned in the previous post, the DeYoung podcast was not presented as a criticism of my book or a debate about it. It was simply an...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/answering-more-questions-about-toward-a-reformed-apologetics-is-chapter-6-consistent-with-chapters</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67ca22037421352750f32aa1</guid><category><![CDATA[Van Til]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:50:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_8edb5d5c935344ddaf44474d1865da11~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_847,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Response to the Reformed Forum on Cornelius Van Til: Part One]]></title><description><![CDATA[In November 2024, my book Toward a Reformed Apologetics: A Critique of the Thought of Cornelius Van Til was published by Mentor/Christian Focus. One of my hopes in writing this book was to move the perennial debate over Van Til’s system of thought in a more constructive and edifying direction than has sometimes existed in the past. I think that goal has already been accomplished to some degree. The first Van Tillian responses to my book have begun to appear, and these public responses have...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/a-response-to-the-reformed-forum-on-cornelius-van-til-part-one</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67c5d0aaf617d0d8a2899ffd</guid><category><![CDATA[Van Til]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:23:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_8edb5d5c935344ddaf44474d1865da11~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_847,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Top Ten Books of 2024]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's that time of year again. The time when websites begin filling up with top ten lists. Top ten favorite books. Top ten favorite...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/my-top-ten-books-of-2024</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6741d7e1c07b5136416d4074</guid><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 15:31:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_5e5c1bf1be5c43bfb2fa01c79a150ae0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two More Reformed Orthodox Classics in Translation ]]></title><description><![CDATA["When I was young, I had to walk five miles in the snow to school every day! Uphill, both ways!" We've all heard the cliches about how...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/two-more-reformed-orthodox-classics-in-translation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66b612275eb314b7e8c52a77</guid><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 14:24:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_8a23c5aa4f324eae8fe61ba070eec732~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Recent Scholarly Books on Dispensationalism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Because my first years as a Christian were spent in dispensationalist circles, I will always have at least an academic interest in the...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/two-recent-scholarly-books-on-dispensationalism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66b395106f9bfa0dadc0a345</guid><category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:39:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_d22ade93382141a69178419444e3df4c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_444,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[J. Gresham Machen and the Transformation of Culture]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have recently been re-reading J. Gresham Machen's Christianity &#38; Liberalism, which was published just over a century ago in 1923. Many...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/j-gresham-machen-and-the-transformation-of-culture</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63be15a1145908fe5e251fc8</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:57:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_b7a7bcff2df74a9aa1ce6e1829866e1e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political Ideology vs. Science]]></title><description><![CDATA[Political ideology has always been a dangerous thing, particularly when utopians get power and get impatient, but political ideology is...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/political-ideology-vs-science</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66830e81e2a655e473ad69b2</guid><category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category><category><![CDATA[General]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 09:00:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_641c6bc84e154182b5ef7ff8f991ce9e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toward a Reformed Apologetics]]></title><description><![CDATA[I haven't posted much on this blog site in the last year. I had a number of other things on my plate. One such project was a new book related to apologetics . I'm happy to announce that aside from some final rounds of editing, that book is finished and will be published in November. As you can see from the cover, the book is a critique of the apologetic system of Cornelius Van Til.  In the five chapters of Part One, I have attempted to explain as clearly and concisely as possible exactly what...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/toward-a-reformed-apologetics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66697b114c62cc838504b103</guid><category><![CDATA[Van Til]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:53:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_afd0c1cb81494ba2a3c5387002a24256~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_779,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Eternal Thirstiness of the Son]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to the Gospel of John, when Jesus was on the cross, he said, "I thirst" (John 19:28). How many theologians or New Testament...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/the-eternal-thirstiness-of-the-son</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6604cbbb74f6de70163b02a4</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:00:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_5e6565ac3fcd4a8aa52f16cf9baf6aff~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology &#38; Tolkien]]></title><description><![CDATA[On September 15, the first volume of a two-volume work entitled Theology &#38; Tolkien will be be published by Fortress Academic. I have...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/theology-tolkien</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64d285e22522620a304efba9</guid><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tolkien]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 09:00:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_975e4ed2ad3048bba826a95213df6b44~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispensationalism Before Darby?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dispensationalism Before Darby: Seventeenth-Century and Eighteenth-Century English Apocalypticism. By William C. Watson. Lampion Press,...]]></description><link>https://www.keithmathison.org/post/dispensationalism-before-darby</link><guid isPermaLink="false">642f071cd5d458b569b1668e</guid><category><![CDATA[Tolle Lege]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 18:21:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/877eb3_adf4c39ce8b74d02aa587beef1c0f04d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_663,h_999,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>kmathison6</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>