Christocentric Philosophy

One may wonder what kind of argument can be offered for Revelational Epistemology — the idea that human knowledge depends solely upon divine revelation and providence. Bahnsen gives one of such argument in the appendix of his book Presuppositional Apologetics: States and Defended . I would be quoting the relevant section at length here. The quoted text would be in italics . THE EPISTEMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CREATOR-RELATION Because man lives in an environment conditioned by, and resting upon, the knowledge and interpretative principles of his ancestors, and because man is created with certain inherent knowledge of his Creator, man has epistemologically been able to take too much for granted. Men deceive themselves to such a degree that they conclude that they are epistemologically autonomous (i.e., free from the necessity of exploring the Creator-relation when doing science and philosophy). Consider the following illustration. Imagine an acoustic society where the people are pre-alphab...

It is undeniable that diversity is an integral part of our experience. The world we experience is marked by plurality and diversity. From a temporal standpoint, we begin with a diversity of things. There is a diversity of facts, events, mental states, objects, perceptions, beliefs, concepts, persons, etc etc. It is safe to say that our experience, in order to be what it is, must contain diversity. The question arises as to what can provide unity in our experience. As it turns out, if our experience consisted only of pure diversity, it would be unintelligible. In order to make sense of the world of experience, we must be able to find unity in the midst of the diversity. The human mind cannot but think in terms of unifying principles. Our minds are wired to order, organize, and categorize the different things we experience. If pure diversity were the case, we would be incapable of identification, predication, counting, using logic, applying moral principles, and so on. All these practice...

One of the most foundational claims of the Van Tillian school of presuppositional apologetics is that the Christian worldview is the necessary precondition for the intelligibility of human experience. This means that the set of presuppositions that make up the Christian view of reality, knowledge, ethics, man, God, etc. are necessary for human experience to make sense. The claim is that we cannot make sense of the world, or know anything about it, without presupposing, at least implicitly, the Christian worldview. This is the so-called Transcendental Argument for God (TAG). This is a bold claim to say the least, and it has definitely not gone uncriticized. One of such criticisms concerns the mere sufficiency of the Christian worldview. Another such criticism is concerning the possibility of a uniqueness proof for the Christian worldview. These objections are not unique to TAG, though. They have their roots in the much broader list of objections raised against transcendental arguments i...