Van Til, Cornelius
Table of Contents:
1. The Material of Christian Ethics
2. The Scope of Christian Ethics
3. The Epistemological Presuppositions of Christian Ethics
4. The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Christian Ethics
5. The Summum Bonum Ideally Considered:The Individual
6. The Summum Bonum Ideally Considered: Society
7. The Non-Christian Summum Bonum
8. the Biblical Summum Bonum in General
9. the Old testament Summum Bonum
10. The New Testament Summum Bonum
11. the Standard of Man in Paradise
12. The Redemptive Standard: Old Testament; New Testament
13. Faith as the Motivating Power in Christian Ethics
14. Greek Ethical Theory: Socrates
15. Werner Jaeger's Concept of Greek Culture
16. Greek Ethical Theory: Plato
17. Modern Ethical Theory: Socrates to Kant
18. Modern Ethical Theory: Kant
Author
Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987) was born in Grootegast, the Netherlands, and immigrated with his family to America in 1905. He attended Calvin College and Calvin Seminary before completing his studies at Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton University with the ThM and PhD degrees. Drawn to the pastorate, Van Til spent one year in the ministry before taking a leave of absence to teach apologetics at Princeton Seminary. When the seminary reorganized, he was persuaded to join the faculty of the newly founded Westminster Theological Seminary. He remained there as professor of apologetics until his retirement in 1975. Van Til wrote more than twenty books, in addition to more than thirty syllabi.