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

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Forewordby Rev. Owen Fourie, Vice-Chairman, Gospel DefenceLeague, Cape Town, Republic of South AfricaIt is with great pleasure that I commend this book to the Christian world at large. These ten lecturesconstitute the last of a series of twenty-five. They were all originally delivered during 1980 atGeneva Divinity School in Texas, which kindly released the cassette tapes hereof to the Mt. OlivePresbyterian Tape Library in Bassfield, Mississippi.This present book is based on my transcription from those cassette tapes. Miss Nancy Hooper ofGriffin, Georgia, USA, who has been assisting Gospel Defence League, typeset the manuscript anddid the artwork. A few further observations about this are necessary, especially for readers in thenineteen-nineties.First, the author of these lectures. Dr. Lee was born in Britain (of a South African father) in 1934,but resided in South Africa from the age of seven until his departure in 1967. Dramaticallyconverted in a Welkom goldmine in 1955 -- he received his initial tertiary education at theUniversities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch, the Orange Free State, and Potchefstroom University forChristian Higher Education. As a Church History Professor who has lived on four continents, Dr.Lee is ideally equipped to give a truly objective evaluation of "The Christian Afrikaners."Second, the time of these lectures. Dr. Lee delivered them in 1980. They represent his perceptionof the Afrikaners, till his leaving the RSA -- together with his ongoing perception of them, while hewas living in the USA for eleven years till 1980. He is well aware of developrnents in the RSAsince then, but thinks it best -- especially for the sake of Afrikaners - to remind them of what theywere in 1980 (rather than what some of them had becorne by 1992).Third, the place of these lectures. Dr. Lee delivered them, by special invitation, in Texas -- rightbefore he left the USA to take up his present professorship in Australia. American, British,Australian and South African readers are all asked to bear in mind that he was then endeavouring topresent his subject in a way easily understandable especially to enquiring Americans.Fourth, the relevance of these lectures. There have been drastic changes in the RSA since Dr. Leedeparted in 1967, and especially since he subsequently delivered these lectures in 1980. Yet thewriter of this Foreword believes there is great merit in presenting these lectures just as they are --especially in the hope of calling the Afrikaner back to his better values (which are now quiteobviously being coinpromised in so many ways).Fifth, the incompleteness of these lectures. It must be remembered they were delivered only afterfifteen immediately antecedent studies on the general theme: "The Eschatology of Victory fromAdam to the Afrikaners." Those fifteen lectures dealt with the eschatology of victory respectivelyin: the Old Testament; the Apocrypha; the New Testament; the Apostolic Fathers; the Second-Century Patristics; the Third Century; the Fourth and Fifth Centuries; the Middle Ages to theProtestant Reformation; John Calvin (on the Law of God); John Calvin (on Eschatology); theHeidelberg Catechism and the Belgic Confession; John Knox to the Synod of Dordt; Seventeenth-Century Dutch Reformed Thought; Dutch Calvinism from Groen van Prinsterer to Kuyper andBavinck; and Dutch Calvinism from Willem Geesink to A.A. van Ruler.Hopefully those fifteen antecedent lectures can yet get published at some later time, in order to givethe full sweep of Dr. Lee's "Eschatology of Victory from Adam to the Afrikaners." Meantime, may
God richly bless the following lectures throughout the Western world!
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the Reformed Church in South Africa
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ook on Hebrews. But his greatest wr
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At that point, Du Plessis enquired
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Yet quite apart from this high view
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One last point. There is a tremendo
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African Republic in 1902, the Cape
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One of the most important Calvinist
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Pellissier, who wrote on music and
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perspective -- even while he minist
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ever encountered by the Whites in S
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Now the United States does not need
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majority of the White citizens are
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Now you will not find in any of Sto
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Finally, Stoker argues that the so-
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This then brings Stoker to another
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This Brummer just referred to, is a
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Man was to rejoice in this nature (
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enhanced. For, in the present, man
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he declared, riddled with the ungod
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Van der Waal is a very brilliant So
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World War II when he was hiding fro
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The Professor of Philosophy -- or I
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glory.There are also Christian psyc
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Then there are Christian criminolog
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Massachusetts at Gordon- Conwell fo
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well known -- is being pioneered in
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people in South Africa. The South A
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nature and of human culture (Prover
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The parousia of Jesus Christ will i
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more and more christianised. Later
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