Category Archives: The Brickyard

Welcome to the Brickyard. This is a place to find quotes for use in your own research and writing. The bricks are free, but the building is up to you. The following quotes are drawn from various philosophical sources dealing with faith and belief. I include these quotes because faith and belief are foundational toContinue reading “Faith & Philosophy”

Welcome to the Brickyard. This is a place to find quotes for use in your own research and writing. The bricks are free, but the building is up to you. The following quotes are from Abraham Kuyper’s Sacred Theology and particularly Chapter 2: The Fundamental, Regulative, and Distinctive Principle of Theology, or Principium Theologiae. “When IContinue reading “Knowledge of the Sciences vs. Knowledge of Scripture”

1.) The Scripture speaks authoritatively about itself.2.) Because the Scripture speaks authoritatively about itself every Christian is morally compelled to believe what the Scripture says about itself.3.) It is neither rational to conclude nor is it Scripturally supported that you must or should have even a single hour of seminary education to believe what theContinue reading “Belief in What the Scripture Says About Itself.”

Welcome to the Brickyard. This is a place to find quotes for use in your own research and writing. The bricks are free, but the building is up to you. The following quotes are from The Quotable Chesterton edited by Marlin, Rabatin, and Swan. It is a compilation of quotes from G.K. Chesterton across a hostContinue reading “Quips and Quotes from G.K. Chesterton”

Welcome to the Brickyard. This is a place to find quotes for use in your own research and writing. The bricks are free, but the building is up to you. The following quotes are from The Translator’s Preface to the Reader of the 1611 KJV. In a prior post I dealt with the term “meanest.” InContinue reading “The Translator’s Preface to the Reader of the 1611 KJV”

Welcome to the Brickyard. This is a place to find quotes for use in your own research and writing. The bricks are free, but the building is up to you. The following quotes are from Herman Bavinck’s Our Reasonable Faith: A Survey of Christian Doctrine. “All of these works of God in creation and providence can rightlyContinue reading “Reasonable Faith and Scripture”

Welcome to the Brickyard. This is a place to find quotes for use in your own research and writing. The bricks are free, but the building is up to you. The following quotes are from Cornelius Van Til’s Christian Apologetics by P&R Publishers, 1976. “The idea of supernatural revelation is inherent in the very idea of thisContinue reading “Van Til and the Infallibly Inscripturated Word”

Welcome to the Brickyard. This is a place to find quotes for use in your own research. The bricks are free, but the building is up to you. The following quotes are from Daniel Wallace. I leave them to you to decide their meaning and worth to the reconstruction of the sacred scriptures of the ChristianContinue reading “Daniel Wallace”

Welcome to the Brickyard. This is a place to find quotes for use in your own research. The bricks are free but the building is up to you. The following quotes are from Robert Preus’ The Inspiration of Scripture: A Study of the Theology of the 17th-Century Lutheran Dogmaticians. Our focus for this post is onContinue reading “Sola Scriptura”

Welcome to the Brickyard. This is a place to find quotes for use in your own research. The bricks are free but the building is up to you. The following quotes are from Karl Barth’s The Word of God and the Word of Man, Section II entitled, the Strange New World Within The Bible. Certainly there isContinue reading “The Strange New World Within The Bible”