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Van Til, Cornelius, 1895-1987

 Person

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

A Christian Theory of Knowledge, Syllabus, 1953

 File
Content Description From the Collection:

This collection of personal and professional papers contains correspondence, manuscripts, syllabi, notebooks, sermons and addresses.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970

AP 443/723 Apologetics of Cornelius Van Til, undated

 File — Box 01, Folder: 036-01-10
Content Description From the Collection: Over the course of his career, Dr. William Edgar accumulated a large assortment of documentation from his colleague, Dr. Robert Knudsen. a professor of Christian apologetics and systematic theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in the latter part of the twentieth century. These documents consist mostly of syllabi from the courses that Dr. Knudsen taught, as well as research papers and articles that Knudsen wrote. These syllabi were extraordinarily detailed, so much so that they are...
Dates: 1966 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1990 - 2000

Clark Case

 Series — Box 15
Content Description From the Collection:

This collection contains the personal papers, records, sermons, journals and correspondence of Edmund P. Clowney.

Dates: Agent Relation: 1917-2005

Common Grace

 File — Box 5, Folder: 029-05-077
Identifier: 029-05-077
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the Allis Collection relates to his work as a teacher, writer, and an editor. One noteworthy feature of the collection is the amount of correspondence. Allis was not only a prolific letter-writer; he was also an early adopter of the typewriter and kept carbon copies of many of the letters he sent. Interested researchers will be able, in many cases, to reconstruct the “conversation” between Allis and his correspondents. The subject matter of the correspondence ranges from the...
Dates: 1813 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1970

Cornelius Van Til Collection (#024)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-2016-14
Content Description

This collection of personal and professional papers contains correspondence, manuscripts, syllabi, notebooks, sermons and addresses.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970

Correspondence Related to Founding

 File — Box 6, Folder: 029-06-076
Identifier: 029-06-076
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the Allis Collection relates to his work as a teacher, writer, and an editor. One noteworthy feature of the collection is the amount of correspondence. Allis was not only a prolific letter-writer; he was also an early adopter of the typewriter and kept carbon copies of many of the letters he sent. Interested researchers will be able, in many cases, to reconstruct the “conversation” between Allis and his correspondents. The subject matter of the correspondence ranges from the...
Dates: 1813 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1970

Correspondence: Van Til, Cornelius

 Sub-Series — Box 9, Folder: 023-09-23
Identifier: 023-09-23
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains the accumulated papers, photographs, and sound recordings of Dr. William Young (1918-2015), who was a conservative Presbyterian pastor, and philosophy professor.Dr. William Young must have been what is known as a “hoarder,” meaning that he discarded almost nothing. At the time that Westminster Theological Seminary acquired this collection, it consisted of approximately fifty cubic feet of papers of all sorts. In addition to his handwritten manuscripts,...
Dates: 1918-2015

Correspondence: Van Til, Cornelius

 File — Box 1, Folder: 028-01-036
Identifier: 028-01-36
Content Description From the Collection: Much of what is contained in the R.B. Kuiper Collection pertains to his tenure as a professor at Westminster and a minister in the PCA/OPC. There is little in the collection from his time at Calvin College, CTS, the CRC, or the RCA. (Researchers should consult the R.B. Kuiper Collection at Calvin Theological Seminary for additional information on those years.)A significant portion of the records pertaining to the PCA/OPC relate to the Gordon Clark case. There is little that...
Dates: 1914 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1929 - 1966

Correspondence: Van Til, Cornelius

 File — Box 4, Folder: 029-04-006
Identifier: 029-04-006
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of the Allis Collection relates to his work as a teacher, writer, and an editor. One noteworthy feature of the collection is the amount of correspondence. Allis was not only a prolific letter-writer; he was also an early adopter of the typewriter and kept carbon copies of many of the letters he sent. Interested researchers will be able, in many cases, to reconstruct the “conversation” between Allis and his correspondents. The subject matter of the correspondence ranges from the...
Dates: 1813 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1970