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

glory.There are also Christian psychologists in modern South Africa -- men like Dr. Smit of theHuguenot College at Wellington (established by Dr. Andrew Murray). There is also Dr. A.B. vander Merwe, who is the Rector (or the President) of Huguenot College. He is a man with two orthree doctor's degrees, a critic of Dooyeweerd, a psychologist and a theologian. If I am notmistaken, he was recently appointed to the chair of Medical Psychology of the University of theOrange Free State.There are also many Christian historians in South Africa. There is Dr. Marius Swart, who writesespecially on Afrikaner history and South African church history from a very strong but accurateand compassionate Calvinistic perspective. So too, my old professor, Dr. Tobie Hanekom -- whospecialises in 18th and 19th century theological history of the Cape. He has written many finemonographs on the centennial celebrations of various congregations of the Reformed Church inSouth Africa. He is also the leading authority in South Africa on the rise and fall of liberal theologywithin the Reformed Church.In addition, there are Christian sociologists such as Dr. Keyter of the University of the Orange FreeState. He came to the conclusion that unless a man has been born again, there is no way in which hecan be a good or a useful sociologist and systematise sociological data accurately. Also, ProfessorCronje -- who has written a several-volume work on various sociological studies (such as on thesubjects of juvenile delinquency and the degeneration of people in urban slums and so forth). Abook by him was the first present my wife ever gave me.Dr. P.O. Le Roux, Professor of Sociology at Huguenot College in Wellington, has writtenparticularly in the area of The Relationship Between the Church and Christian Social Services.Another famous writer and sociologist is Dr. J.H. Coetzee, Professor of Sociology at PotchefstroomUniversity for Christian Higher Education. He gave quite a few addresses at the 1975 InternationalConference of Christian Academicians. He has written several books, one on Christian Politics inthe Republic (a sociological evaluation), and another on population problems.There are many Christian educationalists in South Africa who write from a Calvinistic perspective.The aged Professor Dr. J. Chris Coetzee has written several books on education, sex education, thefirst principles of our Calvinistic education, burning problems of Calvinist educational philosophy,and so forth. Dr. E. Greyling is the great authority on Sunday School Education in the churches.Then there are also Dr. J.J. Pienaar, Dr. van Loggerenberg, Dr. Manie Malan, and many others.Writers in the area of Christian Physical Education include Professor I.R. van der Merwe. He haswritten two or three books on the Calvinist approach to the human body and to bodily exercises andathletics. Also Professor Fleischmann has also written works toward the development of a Christianapproach to athletics -- and the development of the human body as the temple of the Holy Spirit.There are quite a few Christian economists in South Africa who have written from this generalperspective. Dr. Diederichs, sometime Professor of Economics at the Orange Free State University,wrote works on communism and economics -- and later became Minister of Economic Affairs inSouth Africa (and then, State President). Also Dr. F.J. du Plessis and other writers especially at theOrange Free State University have been writing on "hard economics" and the importance of goldand precious metals in the development of a viable economy.By the way, let me interject at this point that the South African economy is approximately 37%gold-backed. It is not 100% gold-backed, yet its backing is of course greater than that of any othercountry in the world today. In spite of the recession of the last decade, South Africa has sustainedan annual per capita growth rate of a minimum of 7% per year. No waning is contemplated in the