By Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard is the editor of this collection of essays written about “the big questions of life” and addressed on university campuses today sponsored by The Veritas Forum.
The Veritas Forum creates forums for the exploration of true life. They seek to inspire the shapers of tomorrow’s culture to connect their hardest questions with the person and story of Jesus Christ. (12)
As Dallas Willard shares, the aim of The Veritas Forum is “to restore the university to its age-old character as ‘a place for truth.’” (15)
I’m just getting started on this book, so . . . more to come.
Definitions and Insights:
Truth: “Truth itself is the distinctive property of truths as such, as red is the distinctive property of red things. A belief or idea (a statement or a proposition) is true provided that what it is about is as it is represented in the belief, statement or so forth.” (16)
Philosophers and truth: Descartes didn’t succeed with the project of universal knowledge, except to his own satisfaction, and that’s one of the occupational hazards of philosophers—to be satisfied with tehir own line of reasoning, when almost no one else is.” (137)
