Symphony of History Intro. Pt. 1

[ChuckHartman]

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[ChuckHartman]

Dear Tom: Yes, basically Van Til, as far as he was filtered down to me through JBJ and others. Evidence is VERY important, and I would teach creation, e. g., by first laying out all options. But it is true that we must rise above ourselves to see ourselves and our presuppositions. It's like a man looking out a window at a squirrel. And then bracket that, and see yourself seeing yourself looking out the window at a squirrel. And so on. Presuppositional and phenomenological. Chuck

[TomOwenM]

I am just curious, what is your background philosophically and theologically? Are you Roman Catholic, Reformed, Charismatic, or independant evangelcial? If you could also share with me are you a presuppositionalist like Van Til or do you lay weight on evidence? Thanks

[ChuckHartman]

@TomOwenM Hi, Tom. I'm only a year late. I apologize. I'm in a liturgical Reformed congregation in Pella. This is a psalmodic response to the lectures of Jim Jordan on Exodus and Revelation. Been working on it for over a decade. I was a philosophy graduate of U of Iowa, but they were Vienna Circle logical positivists, though I did memorize one of Goedel's proofs.

[dougfloyd]

Thanks Chuck. This is helpful. I like your language of "one-anothering" as well as the articulation in the dialogical moment. Gives me some ideas.