Presuppositional apologetics

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Presuppositional apologetics, shortened to presuppositionalism, is an epistemological school of Christian apologetics that examines the presuppositions at the basis of various worldviews, and invites comparison and contrast between the results of those presuppositions. It claims that apart from presuppositions, one could not make sense of any human experience, and that there can be no set of neutral assumptions from which a Christian can reason with a non-Christian. Presuppositionalists claim that Christians cannot consistently declare their belief in the necessary existence of the God of the Bible and simultaneously argue on the basis of a different set of assumptions that God may not exist and Biblical revelation may not be true. Two schools of presuppositionalism exist, based on the different teachings of Cornelius Van Til (1895-1987) and of Gordon Haddon Clark (1902-1985). Presuppositionalism contrasts with classical apologetics and with evidential apologetics. Presuppositionalists...

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