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This is an extended essay by Dr Don Collett, I believe who is still at Trinity School of Ministry as Associate Professor of Old Testament (though I believe the seminary is now known as Trinity Anglican Seminary), that was originally available at Trinity but the link now seems to be dead. Thankfully, I had downloaded this as part of my PhD research so I am making it available here. <\/p>\n

Dr Don Collett – Van Til and Transcendental Argument Revisited<\/a><\/p>\n

Don is on Academia at Don Collett<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It looks like this version may be a prepublication version, Don has a version on academia at Transcendental Argument<\/a> which appears in a Festschrift for Dr John Frame: Speaking the Truth in Love: The Theology of John M. Frame<\/em> (Philipsburg, NJ: P & R 2009), 460-88. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an extended essay by Dr Don Collett, I believe who is still at Trinity School of Ministry as Associate Professor of Old Testament (though I believe the seminary is now known as Trinity Anglican Seminary), that was originally available at Trinity but the link now seems to be dead. 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