Wednesday, September 23, 2009

On Making Peace with Faith in Our Intellectual Work

One more reason to befriend Bavinck:

"[T]here are objections and conundrums in every science.  Those who do not want to start in faith will never arrive at knowledge.  Epistemology, the theory of knowledge, is the first principle of philosophy, but it is riddled with mystery from start to finish.  Those who do not want to embark on scientific investigation until they see the road by which we arrive at knowledge fully cleared will never start.  Those who do not want to eat before they understand the entire process by which food arrives at their table will starve to death.  And those who do not want to believe the Word of God before they see all problems resolved will die of spiritual starvation" (Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 1, p. 442).  



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