Matryoshka dolls (aka babushka dolls) are those fun little wooden nesting dolls. You open the first only to find a smaller, second doll, which in turn contains another, etc., etc. I couldn’t help but think of these when Van Til paints his own maytroshka-esque picture from smaller to larger in Christian-Theistic Evidences. After surveying several different epistemological approaches, he summarizes:
The “revolution in philosophy” which we have traced so far is a revolution within the Kantian revolution, within the Renaissance revolution, within the Greek revolution, within the revolution of Adam. [In Greg L. Bahnsen, Van Til's Apologetic: Readings & Analysis (Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed), 372.]
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naïve. (Romans 16:17-18)