Clarkians do not buy this. For Van Til, the introduction of impersonalism into epistemology assaults the God of the Bible. The disagreement is not on this particular point or that. There is a deep, almost instinctual difference over the nature of reality itself. The difference is not over discursive doctrine, but in the approach to the doctrine.
Christian contextualism reflects a different ethos and orientation from Christian foundationalism .
Van Til presupposes the Christian system and does not attempt to verify it at the bar of man s reason or logic, an act he considers sinfully autonomous. Van Til and Clark were both doughty defenders of Calvinism, but their conflict of apologetic visions will not soon abate. P. Andrew Sandlin is executive vice president of Chalcedon and editor of the Chalcedon Report and other Chalcedon publications. He has written hundreds of scholarly and popular articles and several monographs.