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Title	:	Presuppositional Apologetics: Stated and Defended
Author	:	Greg L. Bahnsen
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 296 pages
Published	:	2009 by American Vision and Covenant Media Press
Categories	:	Religion. Theology. Philosophy

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What once was lost, now is found! Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen, the definitive champion of Cornelius Van Til's revolutionary Reformed apologetical method, wrote this systematic treatise and defense of Biblical apologetics many years before his untimely death. Dr. Bahnsen received the typeset proofs for editing, but due to the unfortunate accidents of history the only copy was lost. The work, consequently, was never published. In our Lord's Providence, after some twenty years, our friends at Covenant Media Foundation discovered the lost proofs. They recently sent them to us at American Vision where our enthusiastic editors busily began preparing the work for publication. Finally, our work has paid off! This magnum opus of apologetics lays out the Biblical presuppositional method, provides rigorous Biblical proof, and defends the uniqueness of the method. This is the work we all longed for Bahnsen to write, yet never knew that he already had written it! Now rescued from the dustbin of history, this monument of apologetics will provide must-reading for Christian defenders of the faith for generations to come.

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What if God doesn't exist? What if He had never revealed Himself? What if the Bible is the fabrication of man? What if the naturalists were right all along? This would lead to problems. Some of which: how could you exist to read these questions? Why would the words in the sentences make any sense? How could you reason through them? How could you make value judgments? Or know truth? The fact is, God does exist. He did reveal Himself, and the Bible should be the starting point working these things

Bahnsens major work in review here is Presuppositional Apologetics: Stated and Defended, published post-humorously in 2008 by The American Vision and Covenant Media Press. It was his magnum opus and completely sold out after a few months of release. Bahnsens basic premise was that apologetics must be exercised upon the infallible and presupposed authority of the Word of Christ in Scripture. Apologetics does not first do obeisance to human philosophy and science and then proceed to encompass God

Not quite as thorough as "Van Til's Apologetic" and not quite as easily readable as "Pushing the Antithesis," but this work is still quite good.

CLear, very clear. Contains the biblical justification of presuppositionalism (Van Til's apologetics). Contains a complete christian view of logic and how laws of logic proves God, and why naturalism (materialism) cannot account for it (and then leads to skepticism).

While Bahnsen's "Always Ready" has been read widely than perhaps any of his other works, I think this current volume by Bahnsen is much more superior to "Always Ready" and recommended as the first work to read as an introduction to Bahnsen's work. The book was "lost" for several decades, originally written by the author as a chapter to another book. The project became big enough to be a separate volume! It is incredible to think that he wrote this as a young man in his mid-twenties. I have met

I can see why Bahnsen did not publish this when he was alive. Very uncharitable readings of the individuals he critiques.

The art and science of defending the faith. Wow! This was an amazingly challenging and enlightening read.