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Can The Transcendental Argument for Christian Theism Be Refuted?

The central claim of the Transcendental Argument for Christian Theism (TACT) is that Christian theism is transcendentally necessary. What this means is that Christianity is necessary for intelligible human experience to obtain. If human experience is intelligible, then Christianity must be true. This transcendental programme, as developed by Van Til and Bahnsen, is worldview-directed. That is, we are dealing with entire worldviews and not just isolated tenets or facts. So, it is the entire Chris...

Thoughts on “The Impossibility of the Contrary”

This is a short piece I wrote over a year ago. I thought it is important that it’s shared:

First, a clarification of the individual terms. By "contrary", the apologist is not referring to the technical sense of the term. In logic, contraries could both be false even though they cannot both be true. The appropriate technical term would be "contradictory". So by "contrary", the apologist is referring to anything that contradicts or denies or negates the Christian worldview. 

By "impossibility", the ...