Tools for Change – 2
Is there another choice besides Barthian gnosticism and the fundamentalists’ cultural retreat?
Van Til believed, along with Augustine, Calvin, Kuyper, and Klaas Schilder that the building of a Christian culture is a biblical imperative. Van Til castigated the Barthians for their repudia tion of a Christian culture. “For them,” he wrote, “there is no single form of social, political, economic order that is more in the spirit of the Gospel than another.” Christians today are hearing a similar refrain from within evangelical circles. If there is no specifically biblical blue print, we are left with a pluralistic blue print, no blueprint, or a postponed blue print (dispensationalism)…
Read It Takes More Than A Theory (Part 1) by Gary DeMar, here and (Part 2) here.
