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The Defense of the Faith—First Edition is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book, Van Til seeks to discover the most biblical and effective way to present Christ to unsaved people. Along the way, Van Til contrasts his position with that of Roman Catholicism and the neo-orthodoxy of Karl Barth and his followers. Part One is entitled “The Structure of My Thought” and Part Two is “Objections Considered.” Van Til also uses the Introduction to respond to his critics.

Without such a system of truth there would be no distinguishable difference between one particular and another. They would be as impossible to distinguish from one another as the millions of drops of water in the ocean would be indistinguishable from one another by the naked eye. “The main point is this, that all counting presupposes and depends upon a qualitative Whole, and that the Collective Judgment asserts a generic connection within its group. Hence no mere particulars can be counted.”9 It