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Karl Barth on Creation

Defends Christian liberty and conscience in non-essential practices while warning against legalism. Critiques Karl Barth for limiting the biblical doctrine of creation and Scripture's authority.
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Karl Barth on Scripture

Van Til attacks Karl Barth's view of Scripture as denying Protestant doctrines (authority, necessity, perspicuity, sufficiency) and urges support for Christian schools.
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Is Religion Coming Back?

New editors Machen and Stonehouse lead The Presbyterian Guardian in defense of conservative Presbyterianism against Modernism. Reviews critique modernism's assault on Scripture and faith.
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Review of Edward J. Young, Study Your Bible

1936 Evangelical Student editorial urging evangelicals to oppose modernism in colleges—withdraw support, reform or found faithful institutions. Reviews defend Gospel certainty and Genesis.
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Psychology of Religion

Course syllabus (Cornelius Van Til) critiquing the modern psychology of religion from a Christian apologetic perspective, urging a distinctly Christian psychology grounded in Scripture and doctrine.
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Review of Edwin Lewis, A Christian Manifesto

Cornelius Van Til critiques Edwin Lewis' A Christian Manifesto as modernist, charging relativism, evolutionism, a low view of Scripture, and rejection of key New Testament doctrines (Colossians).
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Review of John Orr, English Deism: Its Roots and Fruits

1934 Presbyterian journal reports United Presbyterians rejected a proposed organic union amid concerns over modernism and doctrinal decline. Includes reviews on Deism and debates about Christ's resurrection.
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“Christianity — The Paradox of God”

Van Til critiques Mackenzie's 'paradox' theology, defending divine immutability, the historicity of Scripture's miracles and Christ's bodily resurrection, and rejecting 'chance' or natural-selection compromises.
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Facing the Problem

Articles urge students to be balanced witnesses—faith expressed in doctrine and life. Van Til argues college students must decisively choose Christianity now, not postpone judgment.
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Review of Edgar S. Brighton, Is God a Person?

1933 Presbyterian journal defending New Testament missions and Westminster standards while critiquing modernism; Van Til attacks Buchmanism and personalist theology.
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Review of James I. Vance, Worship God

1933 Presbyterian editorial defending New Testament missions and opposing modernist theology; critiques Vance and Brightman for denying orthodox doctrine of God and Christ.
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A New Princeton Apologetic

Cornelius Van Til critiques Princeton's new apologetic (Kuizenga) for adapting Christianity to modern psychology and evolution, downplaying original sin, and defending Reformed apologetics.
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For What Are We Contending?

1932 Christianity Today: editorials on Presbyterian controversies and Dr. Patton's death. Cornelius Van Til defends Reformed apologetics vs. modernism; a Christmas piece honors Christ as Prince of Peace.
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Review of Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will

Defends that Christianity’s ethical life depends on supernatural regeneration and rejects reducing religion to science or modernist agnosticism. Reviews recent books defending orthodox doctrine.
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