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Gregory Lyle Bahnsen (/ ˈ b ɑː n s ən /; September 17, 1948 – December 11, 1995), [2] credited in most of his books as Greg Bahnsen, was an American Calvinist philosopher and Christian apologist. He was a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and a
Second, Bahnsen conflates "atheism" with "materialism" and has really presented an argument against materialism, not an argument for Christianity. Third, Bahnsen believed that the laws of logic, laws of science, and laws of morality are abstract objects , but Christianity arguably underdetermines the relationship between God and abstract objects.
Christian reconstructionism is a fundamentalist Calvinist theonomic movement. [1] It developed primarily under the direction of R. J. Rushdoony, Greg Bahnsen and Gary North [2] and has had an important influence on the Christian right in the United States.
According to Bahnsen, the heart of reality lies in the inner conflict of the will, divided within itself and "willing what it does not will and not willing what it wills". [1]: 229 Rather than just a variation of Schopenhauer's philosophy, but similar to Hartmann's philosophy, Bahnsen's worldview is a synthesis of Schopenhauer with Hegel. But ...
Van Til drew upon the works of Dutch Calvinist philosophers such as D. H. Th. Vollenhoven, Herman Dooyeweerd, and Hendrik G. Stoker and theologians such as Herman Bavinck and Abraham Kuyper to devise a novel Reformed approach to Christian apologetics, one that opposed the traditional methodology of reasoning on the supposition that there is a neutral middle-ground, upon which the non-Christian ...
Julius Friedrich August Bahnsen (30 March 1830 – 7 December 1881) was a German philosopher.Bahnsen is usually considered the originator of characterology and a real-dialectical method of philosophical reflection which he laid down in his two-volume Contributions to Characterology (1867) and developed forth with his following works, amongst others his magnum opus The Contradiction in the ...
Theonomy (from Greek theos "God" and nomos "law") is a hypothetical Christian form of government in which divine law governs societies. [1] Theonomists hold that societies should observe divine law, particularly the Old Testament’s judicial laws. [2] The movement’s chief architects are Gary North, Greg Bahnsen, and R.J. Rushdoony. [3]
Comparison of Christian millennial interpretations Postmillennialists diverge on the extent of the gospel's conquest. The majority of postmillennialists do believe in an apostasy , and like B. B. Warfield, believe the apostasy refers to the Jewish people's rejection of Christianity either during the first century or possibly until the return of ...