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“…Of Things Unseen”

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1991 Advanced Oral Interpretation Class’s performance of …Of Things Unseen adapted by Oliver Hubbard.

Sarcophagus

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1991 performance of Sarcophagus by Vladimir Gubaryev.

Sarcophagus is an exploration of the Chernobyl Disaster, a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine. The play takes place in the Institute of Radiation Safety, near Moscow, immediately following the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster.

1991-92 Chapel Schedule, Taylor University

Chapel Schedules

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C. S. Lewis, George Macdonald, And Mathematics, David L. Neuhouser

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

This paper examines the influence and role of mathematics and mathematicians in the stories of George MacDonald and C. S. Lewis.

Using Mathematics To Teach Calculus, Russell W. Howell

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

For the past two years Westmont College has been one of the beta test sites for the calculus reform experiment being conducted at the University of Illinois under the direction of Jerry Uhl. Brown, Porta, and Uhl have created text which is integrated with Mathematica, a very powerful symbol manipulation, graphics, and number crunching software package produced by Wolfram Research, Inc. A preliminary version of this text has just been released [2]. We have used the Illinois materials for an honors course of incoming Freshmen with prior calculus experience. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the curriculum and …

Cantor's Concept Of Infinity: Implications Of Infinity For Contingence, Bruce A. Hedman

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

Georg Cantor (1845-1918) was a devout Lutheran whose explicit Christian beliefs shaped his philosophy of science. Joseph Dauben has traced the impact Cantor's Christian convictions had on the development of transfinite set theory. In this paper I propose to examine how Cantor's transfinite set theory has contributed to an increasingly contingent world view in modern science. The contingence of scientific theories is not just a cautious tentativeness, but arises out of the actual state of the universe itself. The mathematical entities Cantor studied, transfinite numbers, he admitted were fraught with paradoxes. But he believed that they were grounded in a …

Can Mathematical Methods Yield Theological Truth?, Jan De Koning

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

This paper discusses the negative impact mathematical methods in theology can have on the church by looking specifically at Arminius and Voetius, Dutch theologians living in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Both Arminius and Voetius used mathematical methodology, although they came to different conclusions. I think their differences were due to their different worldviews, which in turn were fundamentally influenced by their upbringing. Both theologians, however, made the same mistake with their methodology and the church split because of that mistake.

A Tale Of Two Mathematicians, Robert Brabenec

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

The goal of this paper is to identify some of the discoveries in mathematics during the period from 1820 to 1875 that have profoundly changed the nature of mathematics. To provide a context for this, the author compares some results of mathematics before the year 1820 with those present after 1875. And to humanize this, the author discusses the details of the life and times of two mathematicians, one who was active before 1820 and one who was active after 1875.

How Has Christian Theology Furthered Mathematics?, Gene B. Chase

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

In revising my Bibliography of Christianity and Mathematics to include material prior to the 20th century, it is difficult to know what to include and what to exclude, since Christian presuppositions informed much scholarship in a vague, cultural sort of way. This paper is a first cut at attempting to narrow down candidates for that Bibliography by looking for specific ways in which Christian theology has furthered mathematics.

Reviving The Argument From Design: Detecting Design Through Small Probabilities, William A. Dembski

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

How small do probabilities of events have to get before we refuse to attribute those events to chance? Smallness of probability is itself not enough since events with extremely small probability occur all the time. But when such events are also prespecified, it becomes difficult to attribute their occurrence to chance. Typically we search for a causal account of how chance was offset. Lacking such a causal story, however, are we still justified in asserting that an extremely improbable prespecified event was not the result of chance? This question is relevant to such diverse areas as prophecy, miracles, parapsychology, gambling, …

Introduction (1991), Robert Brabenec

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

An Eighth Conference on Mathematics from a Christian Perspective

Table Of Contents (1991), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

An Eighth Conference on Mathematics from a Christian Perspective

Schedule (1991), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

An Eighth Conference on Mathematics from a Christian Perspective

The Matchmaker

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1991 performance of The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder.

Before the world fell in love with "Hello, Dolly!", Thornton Wilder’s uproarious play "The Matchmaker" introduced Ms. Dolly Gallagher Levi: a cunning, crafty, and thoroughly modern woman who knows a good catch when she sees one. When the wealthy Horace Vandergelder hires matchmaker Ms. Levi to find him a wife, Dolly doesn't need to look far to find his perfect mate. While Dolly is “arranging things” for Mr. Vandergelder, the young, hopeless romantics of Yonkers reap the rewards of Dolly’s generosity.

The Whole Counsel Of God: A Tribute To E. Herbert Nygren, Winfried Corduan, Faye E. Checkowich, Theodore M. Dorman, Larry R. Helyer, William A. Heth, Paul R. House, Gary C. Newton, Robert D. Pitts

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Herb Nygren has served Taylor University faithfully for over twenty years. As chair of the Department of Biblical Studies, Christian Education, and Philosophy, he has modelled sound teaching and solid scholarship. Upon retirement, he leaves us a legacy of dedication, service, and love for Christ. The members of his department offer these essays as a small token of our esteem.

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1991 performance of Whose Life is it Anyway? by Brian Clark.

Whose Life is it Anyway? tells the story of Claire Harrison, a woman who is left paralyzed from the head down after a car accident and battles with the doctors to be taken off life support.

Taylor Theatre 1991-1992 Season, Taylor University

Season Announcements

The 1991-1992 Taylor Theatre season announcement.