tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post6264706069093534773..comments2024-03-25T19:00:40.046-06:00Comments on The Constructive Curmudgeon: Apologetics SyllabiDouglas Groothuis, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08766692378954258034noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-12932774463575862902007-06-01T08:48:00.000-06:002007-06-01T08:48:00.000-06:00Dr. G, is your syllabus posted anywhere that it co...Dr. G, is your syllabus posted anywhere that it could be viewed?Grace Baptist Church, Somerset, KYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883542966761855665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-122292630334364452007-05-30T19:56:00.000-06:002007-05-30T19:56:00.000-06:00Well certainly he cannot be a "presuppositionalist...Well certainly he cannot be a "presuppositionalist," per se, since he died before VanTil laid out his thought, but he most ceratinly would not be the intellectual odd man out of the camp I mentioned.<BR/><BR/>Rushdooney [sic] was a typo, with apologies. <BR/><BR/>I'd like to hear more of your thinking presuppositionalism lacks place for positive evidence. Seems to me that it is the sine qua non of the apologetic form. It appears largely negative since it presumes positive evidence (found in long standing Christian arguments based on ontological, cosmological, and teleological arguments) and proceeds directly to a transcendental approach.<BR/><BR/>But I'm simply a layman...hoping not to incur your shrugging off again... :)MJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13088292972487550880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-8753285229016216292007-05-30T18:16:00.001-06:002007-05-30T18:16:00.001-06:00J. Greshem Machen, however, was not presuppostiona...J. Greshem Machen, however, was not presuppostional.Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08766692378954258034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-3225970090036340672007-05-30T18:16:00.000-06:002007-05-30T18:16:00.000-06:00It is spelled Rushdoony. I had my fill of presuppo...It is spelled Rushdoony. I had my fill of presuppositionalism years ago. I read acres of books by all of them, but realized the limits of that method: it is all negative apologetics. There is no place for positive evidence.Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08766692378954258034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-76873643165877601942007-05-30T18:07:00.000-06:002007-05-30T18:07:00.000-06:00..and I almost forgot we covered Rushdooney and J......and I almost forgot we covered Rushdooney and J.G. Machen.MJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13088292972487550880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-2641260334307822282007-05-30T18:01:00.000-06:002007-05-30T18:01:00.000-06:00I doubt I can find it in my files, but I had a ver...I doubt I can find it in my files, but I had a very impressive apologetics course in high school. Not sure you'd be in much substantive agreement, as it involved a heavy does of VanTil, Frame, Bahnsen, the Bible (of course), and memorizing and understanding the Biblical foundations of sizable portions of the WSC. I still am quite sympathetic to this introduction to presuppositional apologetics, and it was very rigorous for the 11th grade mind.MJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13088292972487550880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-48807067396599539362007-05-29T08:13:00.000-06:002007-05-29T08:13:00.000-06:00I was thinking that you could ask your peers for t...I was thinking that you could ask your peers for their syllabus.<BR/><BR/>Folks like Corduan, Moreland, Giesler, Craig, etc.Craig Fletcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04732332673826674158noreply@blogger.com