General Revelation through Mathematics
Sarah E. Lash
03/02/2017
You may have sat in many a math class and wondered why. As a child, I would labor over long division, multiplication tables, and algebra, and shake my head at the apparent uselessness of it all. Mathematics seemed not only utterly impractical, but also entirely devoid of anything pertaining to the pursuit of Jesus Christ.
The history of Western civilization has seen major shifts in its major worldviews - from Christianity and other theisms, to humanism and beyond. It can be said that "Every cultural expression communicates worldview ideas," (Prof. John Stonestreet) and as a cultural expression, poetry communicates the ideas of its poets and the times they lived in.
One such idea is that of religious faith, faith in theism. Among others, this faith may be approached with a sort of 'blind faith,' confident in its Divine Revelation alone.
The nature of reality,
Whether God ever visits;
All is one, two, infinity?
Such is metaphysics.
How the mind interprets matter;
Facts from space to philology;
How do we know our hands won't splatter?
Defines epistemology.
Discover man's own summum bonum:
Self ordain, or bow to relics?
Take them all; let others have them?
This pertains to weighty ethics.
Such is the matter of much debate
And a thousand years' philosophizing.
Free will or determined fate?
Fret not. The sun will keep on rising.
