Jonathan Anderson

Thornbury, by the end of the volume, is worried that Evangelicalism is the loser if we do not articulate an evangelical philosophical foundation, especially an epistemology. His concern about epistemology is that the society will not listen if we do nothing more than articulate God’s message in some sort of fundamentalist way. In one sense, he is correct. We lose our voice in the public square. We lose our influence on society. We lose prominence and the smug sense of having a “milieu.” But only a revelatory epistemology, exegetically derived and systematically expressed, will be used of the Lord to convert hearts and continue earning the hostility of the world. The voice in the public square will never be earned by fidelity to a revelatory epistemology. A philosophical foundation may be compelling to unbelievers, but the self-attesting Word never will be.