The influential 20th century theologian C.S. Lewis was the author of "Mere Christianity," published in 1952. A transcription of three BBC radio interviews originally published in pamphlet form during World War II, Lewis sought to smooth over theological differences between denominations by holding to the common fundamentals of the faith, such as the argument from morality, but with a distinctive lack of adherence to the Bible as an authoritative and inerrant revelation from God. Rather, this methodology focuses on philosophical rationality. As a regrettable side effect, a symptom of modern classical apologetics is the notion of the "brute fact" of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead as proof of His claims to Godhood attested by the eyewitness accounts of the Gospels, in a vacuum apart from any Biblical revelation of God's plan in history. Of course, in a Van Tillian metaphysical construct, a concept of a "brute fact" doesn't exist. Accordi...
A blog focusing on the theological and apologetic methodology of Cornelius Van Til.