Can We Know Anything for Sure?
The following is an excerpt for our Why Trust the God of the Bible? ebook. Many today fail to see the importance of grounding their reasoning process in reality in spite of the fact that whatever is not based on reality is un-reality, in other words unreal. The slippery slope of subjectivism and relativism is […]
A Fundamental Problem With The Presuppositionalism of Cornelius Van Til
By, David Haines Cornelius Van Til was, without a doubt, one of the most influential apologists of the Neo-Calvinist movement of the twentieth century. Van Til received his philosophical training under W. H. Jellema at Calvin College (a gifted philosopher who had received his training under well-known English Idealists such as Josiah Royce, F. H. […]
Aquinas or Van Til? Testimony of a Campus Minister
By Chris Van Allsburg, Recently, Reformed theologian and presuppositionalist K. Scott Oliphint [1] criticized Southern Evangelical Seminary (SES) for holding to the classical method in apologetics at a conference in Phoenix called Reformcon. Having moved away from presuppositionalism, I feel it is appropriate to respond. Now, presuppositionalism was my meat and potatoes for nearly a decade […]
Reflections on Transgenderism
By J. Thomas Bridges, I’ll state upfront that I don’t normally weigh in on cultural issues, and I intentionally avoid issues that fall on the ethico-political range of the philosophical spectrum. My area of research this summer is the way some issues in the philosophy of science parallel certain issues in the philosophy of […]
2016 Summer Courses
Welcome to the 2016 Southern Evangelical Summer Semester course listing. On this page you will find a listing of all the courses listed with deadlines, dates, and times for each course. In addition, you will find an FAQ section below the listing of courses. Thank you for visiting, and we hope to see you on-campus, […]
A Match Made in Heaven: How the National Day of Reason Points to God’s Existence
The majority of this post was originally posted last year by the same title on the Ratio Christi UNC Greensboro blog. Reason. According to Merriam-Webster, it is “the power of the mind to think and understand in a logical way.”[1] This intellectual power is often championed by atheistic thinkers and spurned by many who consider […]