---
title: 'A Substitute for Christianity'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Cornelius Van Til'
date: 1943-02-10
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Apologetical Method'
- 'Depression, Discouragement, and Suicide'
- 'Revelation (General and Special Revelation)'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 90'
- 'Psalms 121'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/van-til-1943-a-substitute-for-christianity
---

# A Substitute for Christianity

Describes a Christian sanatorium's care for troubled minds and mounts a polemical defense of evangelical orthodoxy against Homrighausen's Barthian theology, stressing Scripture's historicity.

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