““history is not an autonomous or complementary category of epistemology. Rather, Van Til held that an ontological knowledge of God is given to mankind in history by the revelation of the economic Trinity. Specifically, all epistemological issues within the creation have their initial solution in the economic, historical revelation of the God of Scripture, which God’s ontology inherently grounds. Thereby, Van Til disclosed his obsession with consistency and Christian orthodoxy; a thorough Christian-theistic epistemology coheres in the context of God’s ontological being as well as the economic disclosure of his being—the two cannot be separated.51 For this reason, Van Til declared that a philosophy of history is the key to a Christian-theistic epistemology; our knowledge of anything is dependent upon the revelation of the economic Trinity in history.””
