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Cornelius Van Til revises his syllabus on Systematic Theology in the volume, accounting for developments in theology from Karl Barth and the subsequent studies of G.C. Berkouwer. The Christian faith must not be taken in the form of “piecemeal apologetics” but instead “be set over against the non-Christian faith as a whole.” This work includes his studies on Epistemology, General Revelation, and...

But if truth is really thought of as dependent upon God then we are back to the Christian method. Then we cannot at the same time maintain the exact identity of content as between the mind of man and the mind of God. For the truth then comes to man exclusively by revelation as noted above. It is God, by an eternal intuition knowing himself, who reveals himself. Man has no approach to the knowledge of the nature of God—on which truth is admittedly dependent—except by the self-conscious activity of