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Road Signs

Defends the Reformed doctrine of God's fatherhood and sovereign salvation, criticizing an Arminian film invitation; includes Presbytery news and a missionary travel report.
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Christianity and Crisis Theology

Van Til (with critique by Young) argues Barth and Brunner's 'Theology of Crisis' is a renewed Modernism that reduces Scripture, revelation, Christ, and salvation to human experience.
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No Christian Answer

1945 Presbyterian Guardian pieces criticizing modernist theology and Federal Council missionary planning; urges preaching sin and substitutionary atonement; includes a Bible study on Jesus' youth.
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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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Kant or Christ?

Cornelius Van Til argues that Kant-influenced modern thought (science, philosophy, theology) makes human reason the ultimate interpreter, denying God's causal sovereignty. He defends historic Christianity against Tillich, Niebuhr, and similar views.
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Philosophic Foundations

Critiques 'Philosophic Foundations', arguing Scripture—not autonomous human reason—must ground philosophy. Affirms the created mind, the Trinity, and sin's distortion of reason.
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Princeton’s President and Pagan Philosophy

A pastor recounts winning an unbeliever to listen; Van Til criticizes Princeton leadership and Bowman's philosophy for denying creation, incarnation and the atonement; a missionary urges sowing gospel seed.
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Homrighausen Approved

Discusses the 1925 Canadian church union's effects—legal battles, minister shortages and membership changes—and criticizes Dr. Homrighausen's ambiguous, Barth-influenced stance on Scripture.
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Changes in Barth’s Theology

Van Til critiques Karl Barth, arguing Barth's 'revelation-time' separates the incarnation, virgin birth, and resurrection from our historical time, undermining historic Christianity and Scripture.
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A Strange Debate about Brunner

Van Til condemns Brunner's 'supra-historical' reading of Genesis as undermining historic Christianity. He warns Princeton's appointment signals a drift toward modernism.
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Recent Developments at Princeton: An Editorial

Editorial condemns Princeton Seminary's 1930s appointments for privileging human experience over Scripture, embracing modernism, higher criticism, and evolution that undermine the Reformed faith.
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More Barthianism in Princeton

Editorial protests Southern/Northern Presbyterian union and modernism, recounting Machen's complaint. Van Til reviews Homrighausen, denouncing Barthian relativism and attacks on biblical inspiration.
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A Christian Sanitarium

Memorial for J. Gresham Machen and an exposition of substitutionary atonement: OT sacrifices typify Christ's blood, which alone removes sin and displays God's sovereign grace.
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Karl Barth and Historic Christianity

Van Til critiques Karl Barth for denying historic Christianity, treating Christ's virgin birth, passion, resurrection and ascension as non-historical 'signs' and rejecting confessional systems.
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Do Scientists Today Believe in God?

Tribute to J. Gresham Machen's support for evangelical students. Van Til argues leading scientists often adopt pantheistic or naturalistic views, rejecting biblical creation and providence.
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