The search for truth: in conversation with Cornel du Toit
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Authors
Bentley, Wessel
Issue Date
2013-08
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Article
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en
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Cornel du Toit is an exploratory thinker. He is a wide thinker, who refuses to be confined by the
limitations of a specific discipline or dogma. In the years that I have worked with Du Toit, I have
found his work to be innovative and fresh, ground-breaking and constantly testing the limits of
convention. It is such a mind that is helpful in the tensions between science and religion, between
religion and politics, and between existentialism and metaphysics. Underlying his work is the
nugget which drives every researcher: a quest for the truth. In this article I wish to celebrate the
work of Cornel du Toit by commenting on the different ways he has grappled with the question of
truth, while holding the reins of the bucking horses called religion and science. I will do so by
describing Du Toit’s perspectives of the locus of truth in religion and science, and his exploration
of the tension between these two entities. I conclude with ideas about the direction in which our
understanding of truth in science and religion may be heading.
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Peer reviewed
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Studia Historiae Ecclesiastica, vol 39, Supplement, pp 55-70
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Church History Society of Southern Africa
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1017-0499