Philosophy

This report outlines some of the topics that were discussed during a two-week seminar by thirteen participants who, with one exception, were teachers of mathematics from grade 1 all the way up to college level.

A madman once ran into the market place calling out, “I seek God.” The bystanders, typifying the majority of modern Western men who do not live as if they really believed in the living God of the Bible, were vastly amused and said to the maniac, “Why? Is God lost?”

What indeed has Christianity to say to the temporal activities and institutions of modern men? What is the relation of the Christian to the modern world?

All mankind was represented in Adam and all man sinned against God in Adam at the beginning of history.

Must we as Christians give up reasoning with unbelievers? If we do then we must also give up preaching or witnessing to unbelievers.

The biblical gospel of sovereign, saving grace, which modern man needs, is best reproduced in the Reformed Confessions.

Law is concerned with matters of justice, authority, duty, and obligation, all matters of religious concern and inescapably involved with matters of “ultimate concern.”

The time has come for students, colleagues and friends to pay homage to Jan Adriaan Louw Taljaard, one of the South African pioneers in philosophy, dedicated to the task of elaborating a vision of reality according to the spirit of God’s Word.