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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
presupposition .
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Again, apologetic methods clash on their most basic assumption: one view finds Scripture completely sufficient to reveal to us how to defend the faith ( "presuppositional"), while another view finds Scripture merely supplemental and, consequently, secondary ( "classical"/"evidential").
Pros Apologian 2010
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Thanks - a presuppositional apologetic can cut through a lot of clutter pretty quickly
Pew and the Democratic War on Science. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Either you have a presuppositional bias for or against God and that drives all your conclusions.
If and only if Cornelius Hunter made sense, then... - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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I am not saying that Hebrews has trinitarian view about God but you can't exclude binitarian concept of God from presuppositional basis.
HANDS Across the Godhead? James F. McGrath 2010
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However, what I suspect he believes in is presuppositional apologetics.
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His use of presuppositional apologetics helped me to better understand the drivers behind man's thoughts.
Texas Faith: What thinker most influenced you? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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Pisaac asks for some Creationists working away at research within their own presuppositional framework.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Is it possible to interpret scripture without any presuppositional bias?
Debunking Debunking Christianity Christianity James F. McGrath 2009
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The final argument is on objectivity, seen in the introduction as an "amorphous if not impossible standard," another argument that comes back to all media tasks being "superfluous as long as one remains within the presuppositional framework of the doctrinal consensus," with writers well aware of "rewards that accrue to conformity and the costs of honest dissidence."
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I am not sure whether Berger is even right that the supernatural has lost something of its taken-for-grantedness, since it is woven into the presuppositional fabric of the worldview of many in North America p.99.
Questions Of Faith James F. McGrath 2008
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