Papers

Published Papers

• “Calvinism and the First Sin,” forthcoming in Calvinism and the Problem of Evil, ed. David Alexander and Daniel Johnson (Wipf & Stock, 2014).
• “The Lord of Noncontradiction: An Argument for God from Logic,” Philosophia Christi 13:2 (2011), 321-338.
• A revision of my 2010 EPS paper, co-authored with Greg Welty. A preprint version is available here.
• “No Dilemma for the Proponent of the Transcendental Argument: A Response to David Reiter,” Philosophia Christi 13:1 (2011), 189-198.
• A response to David Reiter, “A Dilemma for the Proponent of the Transcendental Argument for God’s Existence,” Philosophia Christi 11:2 (2009), 465-469. A preprint version is available here.
• “Presuppositionalism and Frame’s Epistemology,” in Speaking the Truth in Love: The Theology of John M. Frame, ed. John J. Hughes (P&R, 2009), 431-459.
• A defense of Frame’s epistemology and presuppositionalism, with some concrete apologetic application; reproduced here with permission of P&R Publishing Co., PO Box 817, Phillipsburg, NJ 08865.
• “In Defence of Mystery: A Reply to Dale Tuggy,” Religious Studies 41:2 (2005), 145-163.
• A reply to Dale Tuggy, “The Unfinished Business of Trinitarian Theorizing,” Religious Studies 39:2 (2003), 165-183.
• “If Knowledge Then God: The Epistemological Theistic Arguments of Plantinga and Van Til,” Calvin Theological Journal 40:1 (2005), 49-75.
• An overview and comparison of various epistemological theistic arguments found in the writings of Alvin Plantinga and Cornelius Van Til. A number of unhelpful typographical errors (not to mention an inexplicable insertion of the name ‘Immanuel Kant’) crept into the published version of this article. A preprint version is available here.

Presented Papers

• “Positive Mysterianism Undefeated: A Response to Dale Tuggy,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, San Francisco, CA, November 18, 2011.
• “The Lord of Non-Contradiction: An Argument for God from Logic,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, Atlanta, GA, November 17, 2010.

Other Papers

• “A Response to W. Gary Crampton” (2010).
• A response to Gary Crampton’s review of my book.
• “Andrew McGowan on Inerrancy” (2008).
• A critique of chapter 4 of McGowan’s The Divine Spiration of Scripture.
• “The Theistic Preconditions of Knowledge: A Thumbnail Sketch” (2006).
• A brief defence of one of the distinctive claims of Van Tilian apologists.
• “Comments on John Johnson’s Response to Frame & Hays” (2006).
• Some comments on Johnson’s article in the Global Journal of Classical Theology.
• “Van Til’s Serious Trinitarian Theology” (2005).
• A guest post on Triablogue in defence of Van Til’s understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity. (The title is a lame reference to Triablogue’s original tagline: “Serious Trinitarian Theology”.)
• “Van Til FEM (Frequently Encountered Misconceptions)” (2004).
• A document providing summary responses to the most frequently encountered misconceptions of Cornelius Van Til’s philosophy, theology, and apologetics.
• “Precogs, Prophets, and the Purposes of God” (2002).
• Some musings on the film Minority Report. An edited version of this article appears on the Facing the Challenge website.
• “Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga: A Brief Comparison” (2001).
• Originally posted to the reformed-epistemology discussion group in July 2001, in response to a query about the main areas of agreement and disagreement between these two Christian thinkers.
• “Secular Responses to the Problem of Induction” (2000).
• Originally written as an assignment for a course in systematic logic, this essay examines the most sophisticated secular responses to Hume’s skepticism regarding induction and concludes that all fail to provide a satisfactory account for how our inductive inferences can be warranted.