With his retirement in 1972, Westminster came to its moment of truth. It took the second path. It had broadened its student base after 1965. Perhaps most important, it had repositioned itself as a mainstream evangelical seminary with an uncompromising apologetic. But evangelicalism today is compromised.
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D.D. Step by step, beginning in 1962, Clowney had moved the seminary into the evangelical mainstream. Van Til was clearly outside that mainstream. In the guise of a critical analysis of the ideas of the Christian Reconstruction movement, the faculty has made it clear that at Westminster the Van Til legacy is now just one among many on campus, which means that his legacy has been scrapped. There was never any possibility of an plurality of apologetic approaches in Van Til's system. It is an anit-pluralist system.