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

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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 poss

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On September 15, the first volume of a two-volume work entitled Theology & Tolkien will be be published by Fortress Academic. I have...

Dispensationalism Before Darby: Seventeenth-Century and Eighteenth-Century English Apocalypticism. By William C. Watson. Lampion Press,...