Greg L. Bahnsen





Greg L. Bahnsen

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born
September 17, 1948 in Auburn, Washington, The United States

died
December 11, 1995

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Cornelius Van Til


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Greg L. Bahnsen was an influential Calvinist Christian philosopher, apologist, and debater. He was an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and a full time Scholar in Residence for the Southern California Center for Christian Studies.


Average rating: 4.28 · 469 ratings · 77 reviews · 13 distinct works
Always Ready: Directions fo...
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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Van Til's Apologetic
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By This Standard: The Autho...
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Theonomy in Christian Ethics
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Pushing The Antithesis: The...
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Victory in Jesus: The Brigh...
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House Divided: The Break-Up...
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Five Views on Law and Gospel
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No Other Standard: Theonomy...
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More books by Greg L. Bahnsen…
“Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe - they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.”
Greg L. Bahnsen

“The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God… then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) - the standard of self-law or autonomy. And when autonomous laws come to govern a commonwealth, the sword is certainly wielded in vain, for it represents simply the brute force of some men’s will against the will of other men.”
Greg L. Bahnsen