The Reformed Ninja

  Presuppositional Apologetics is revelational, theological, and philosophical, beginning in its substance and self-consciously from the God of the Bible, whereas Classical Apologetics, in terms of its internal methodological ordering, is philosophical and theological, yes, but only accidentally, so to speak, revelational. The evidence for the latter is found in the fact that so much of Classical Apologetics is wedded to natural theology, which distinguishes strongly between what can be known by unaided reason and what can known by revelation, a posture which is shared between Christian, Jewish, and Muslim theologians, not to mention Neoplatonism, certain schools of Hinduism, and still others. It is therefore not simply a question of the use of "Aristotle," which as such is a matter of relative indifference, nor of general revelation simpliciter , which is to say the disputed import of that which impinges upon man's senses from the natural world, but of what ultimately di...

Some Eastern Orthodox apologists have sought to adapt a form of Presuppositionalism in their defense of the Eastern Orthodox Church (EOC). Eastern Orthodox Presuppositionalism (EOP) is an ecclesiological epistemology, and even narrower still it is a sectarian epistemology, i.e. anti-catholic. In other words, according to EOP, the epistemological ground or cause of knowledge is said to be rooted in Eastern Orthodox ecclesiology, for EOP holds that the EOC is a precondition of intelligibility and knowledge. In contrast, Reformed Presuppositionalism (RP) is rooted in the Verbum Dei , with its epistemological ground seen to be God’s Word, and its epistemological consequence being unto and causative of ecclesiology. Put more simply, the RP position is that we can know the Church because of the transcendentally fundamental nature of God’s Word, not vice versa. The EOP position is that we know God’s Word because of the Church, thus causing the Scriptures and epistemology to submit to the Chu...