If you haven't read Frame's The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God, then you should immediately add it your list of books to read. It is absolutely spectacular and of particular significance in furthering your understanding of God, His creation, and a defense for a uniquely Christian epistemology.
Today I have recorded and uploaded chapter 4 in its entirety. This chapter deals with the problem of justification in non-christian epistemological models. Three perspectives are analyzed; rationalism, empiricism, and subjectivisim. And a critique is offered of each.
There are many insights of Frame's which I appreciated. One in particular, which is evidenced in this chapter, is the emphasis he makes between epistemology and ethics. In my experience, this is a pretty rare (though very important) move. Frame made a similar argument in his contribution in Five Views of Apologetics (also available here in audio). However, his synthesis between ethics and epistemology in that book is found mostly in a footnote on page 226, which reads: "Objective ethical norms are necessary also for logic and science. Because if there is no absolute rule as to how I ought to reason, as to the responsible was of analyzing data, logic and science could not exist nor could any other field of human study."
Frame is the leading successor of the apologetic tradition of Cornelius Van Til, second only to Greg Bahnsen when Bahnsen was still alive. I really can't recommend this book enough. Check out the audio to get an immediate taste of what this book has to offer.
You will find direct access to the audio here.
Today I have recorded and uploaded chapter 4 in its entirety. This chapter deals with the problem of justification in non-christian epistemological models. Three perspectives are analyzed; rationalism, empiricism, and subjectivisim. And a critique is offered of each.
There are many insights of Frame's which I appreciated. One in particular, which is evidenced in this chapter, is the emphasis he makes between epistemology and ethics. In my experience, this is a pretty rare (though very important) move. Frame made a similar argument in his contribution in Five Views of Apologetics (also available here in audio). However, his synthesis between ethics and epistemology in that book is found mostly in a footnote on page 226, which reads: "Objective ethical norms are necessary also for logic and science. Because if there is no absolute rule as to how I ought to reason, as to the responsible was of analyzing data, logic and science could not exist nor could any other field of human study."
Frame is the leading successor of the apologetic tradition of Cornelius Van Til, second only to Greg Bahnsen when Bahnsen was still alive. I really can't recommend this book enough. Check out the audio to get an immediate taste of what this book has to offer.
You will find direct access to the audio here.