THE CHRISTIAN AFRIKANERS - The Works of F. N. Lee

Massachusetts at Gordon- Conwell for a while, having previously worked at Xenia TheologicalSeminary and elsewhere.There is also the case of Gerald van Groningen, sometime Professor of Old Testament at ReformedTheological Seminary Mississippi -- and currently the new President of Trinity Christian College inPalos Heights (Illinois). Van Groningen is working on a second doctorate in Old Testament atPotchefstroom University -- where his son is also enrolled working on a degree in association withmy cousin (Professor David N.R. Levey, a Professor of English at Potchefstroom University).Then there is Guy Oliver, sometime Professor of Church History at Reformed TheologicalSeminary in Jackson (Mississippi). He is working on a doctor's degree at UNISA, the University ofSouth Africa.Too, the American Professor Robert Vasholz, now Professor of Old Testament at CovenantTheological Seminary in St Louis, got his Doctorate at the University of Stellenbosch under Dr.Piet Verhoef (Professor of Old Testament). The latter, incidentally, once turned down an offer byPresident Ed Clowney to move to the United States and teach at Westminster Seminary.Covenant Theological Seminary in St Louis recently entered into an agreement with the Universityof Stellenbosch, whereby Covenant's graduates could be enabled to end up with a University ofStellenbosch doctor's degree in the field of theology.But I think the most significant figure to have passed through South Africa, is the celebratedAmerican Professor of Sociology and Economics at Dordt College (Iowa), Hebden Stacey Taylor.Born of missionary parents who worked in Africa, Taylor was schooled in Durban (South Africa).He has written many important works such as The Christian Philosophy of Law, Politics and theState; and Dooyeweerd and Biology. He has also published a recent book on Christian economics --under the auspices of the Christian Studies Center in Memphis (Tennessee).I would like to give you a quotation from Hebden Stacey Taylor's important book Reformation orRevolution. On page 516, he is discussing race relations. He says in this important quote: "TheSouth African approach of separate development has evoked the concentrated hostility of theUnited Nations and so-called world opinion. The impartial observer can only conclude that race isnot really the issue at all, but merely the ogre created to work up emotion and troubles in thecouncils of mankind."What, then, is South Africa's real crime? The answer must be that she has dared to call intoquestion that great sacred cow of our revolutionary age -- that godless dogma, that sovereignty overthe individual resides in the general will of the majority rather than in the revealed will of AlmightyGod written in the Holy Scriptures!"I referred earlier to the world's first International Conference of Calvinist Academicians held in1975 at, and financially sponsored exclusively by, the South African Calvinistic University ofPotchefstroom. It hosted, at its expense, representatives from: the United States, Canada, Australia,Holland, Argentina, Germany, England, France, Scotland, Japan, Korea and almost every Blackcountry in Africa as well.I also referred to the work of Bennie van der Walt, sometime Professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of Fort Hare in South Africa -- and currently the organiser and curator of the Institutefor the Promotion of Calvinism and the Calvinistic Study Centre at Potchefstroom in South Africa.In January 1981, van der Walt is to publish a new book -- called The Anatomy of Reformation. It