<p>Struggle for a Christian Politics : An Essay in Grounding the Calvinistic Worldview in Its Law-Idea</p>

The Struggle for a Christian Politics: An Essay in Grounding the Calvinistic Worldview in Its Law-Idea (Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd)

Religion & Spirituality

Dooyeweerd, Herman

Christian Books & Bibles

Edwin Mellen Pr

The first half of this text discusses the basic distinction between matter, plants and animals - in confrontation with diverse trends in natural philosophy. The second half presents the position of humanity in the temporal world in the context of the task of a philosophic anthropology. Particular attention is dedicated to the normative act-structure of the human being (Scheler's views are analyzed, amongst others), while the Genesis account (the "days" of creation and time-measurement) and the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution are also investigated.

Reformation & Scholasticism in Philosophy

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

This is the first in a series of four volumes. It offers a fundamental critique of the long-lasting, rationalistic belief that theoretical thought is autonomous, supplemented by an extensive analysis of the development of modern humanistic philosophy, showing that it is in the grip of the supra-theoretical basic ground-motive of "nature and freedom" (science ideal versus nature ideal). In addition it investigates the relationship between philosophy and world- and life-view as well as assessing the foundational influence of philosophical conceptions on the various academic disciplines ("special sciences").

A New Critique of Theoretical Thought: The Necessary Presuppositions of Philosophy (Dooyeweerd, H. Works. Ser. A, V. 1)

This is the second of four volumes of philosophy by Dooyeweerd. It develops an understanding of properties and functional relations between things, events and societal relationships in reality, subsumed in the general idea of a unique "sphere of laws" or a "law-sphere". Not only are these aspects/lawspheres/modalities of reality unique and irreducible, but they also reflect within themselves structural moments referring analogically to all the other modes - thus evincing the equally primary "coherence" between all aspects of reality. In his general theory of the modal lawspheres, Dooyeweerd addresses numerous perennial philosophical issues relevant for diverse academic disciplines, including the reality of the "deepening, disclosing and unfolding" of the meaning of aspects. This volume contains a more detailed account of Dooyeweerd's theory of knowledge (epistemology), where he raises (even before the analytic philosopher Quine did so) questions about the Kantian distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions.

A New Critique of Theoretical Thought: The General Theory of the Modal Spheres (Dooyeweerd, H. Works. Ser. A, V. 2)

This is the third volume in a series of works by Dooyeweerd. It analyzes the structure of individual totalities, seeks to account for the idea of an entity which cannot be described exhaustively through any abstracted aspect in which it has a function, and discusses the functions of individuality. The idea of an individual whole (technically designated as an individuality-structure) as it is given in concrete everyday experience precedes its theoretical analysis. Dooyeweerd introduces a new insight by distinguishing between what he calls the basic function (foundational function) and the guiding function (qualifying function) of structures of individuality. The scope of this analysis covers natural things, living entities, human beings, human society (undifferentiated societies and a comprehensive structural analysis of the state, church, family, marriage and forms of interlacement within a differentiated society), as well as objectified things in nature and culture.

A New Critique of Theoretical Thought: The Structures of Individuality of Temporal Reality (Works Series a)

This is the fourth in a series of volumes devoted to theoretical thought. It contains an extensive index to all four volumes

A New Critique of Theoretical Thought: Index of Subjects and Authors (Works Series a)

This is an accessible work which aims to provide an understanding of Greek, medieval and modern humanistic life-orientations in their historical development. The book reveals the origin of the modern ideology of community and its subsequent effects in National Socialism. Confronted with the implications of a biblical understanding of the human condition, human society and the place and calling of scholarly reflection, Dooyeweerd contends that humanism has done more for the recognition of human freedom for religious convictions than did 17th-century Calvinism.

Roots of Western Culture: Pagan, Secular, and Christian Options (Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd Series B, Vol 3)

Literature & Fiction

Kraay, John

History & Criticism

This introduction to Dooyeweerd's philosophy focuses on its critique of the modernist belief in the autonomy of theroretical thought. Topics include: the meaning of history; the criteria of progressive and reactionary tendencies in history; and Christianity in science and scholarship.

Christian Philosophy and the Meaning of History (Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd. Series B, Vol 1)

Religious Studies

Provides a general characterization of the difference between theoretical and central religious dialectics, and then analyzes the dialectical development of pre-Platonic philosophy as motivated by the form-matter ground-motive. The book concludes with a discussion of Plato's thought.

Reformation and Scholasticism in Philosophy: The Greek Prelude (The Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd)

This volume commences with an explanation of the intentions of an intrinsically reformational philosophy, followed by a discussion of theological criticism of Herman Dooyeweerd's philosophy (including the issue of a reformational Philosophy and the Reformed Confession), in order to unveil the point of contact between philosophy and the Christian religion, and to oppose the standpoint of accommodation in theological scholastic philosophy. The Logos-theory and two diverging lines in Kuyper's thought are investigated, upon which the insights of his transcendental critique of knowledge is applied to an assessment of the whole Thomistic doctrine of an analogy of being ("analogia entis") and of a natural theology (including Thomas Aquinas' "proofs" for the existence of God). After a brief discussion of the development of humanistic thought, Dooyeweerd analyzes the basic structures of reality, confronting the traditional Aristotelian-Thomistic concept of substance with his ideas on the structural wholeness of indivdual things (as determined by their individuality-structures). The volume concludes with the status of theological reflection, treated within the context of the conflict between the faculties.

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The Struggle for a Christian Politics: An Essay in Grounding the Calvinistic Worldview in Its Law-Idea (Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd)

Reformation & Scholasticism in Philosophy

A New Critique of Theoretical Thought: The Necessary Presuppositions of Philosophy (Dooyeweerd, H. Works. Ser. A, V. 1)

A New Critique of Theoretical Thought: The General Theory of the Modal Spheres (Dooyeweerd, H. Works. Ser. A, V. 2)

A New Critique of Theoretical Thought: The Structures of Individuality of Temporal Reality (Works Series a)

A New Critique of Theoretical Thought: Index of Subjects and Authors (Works Series a)

Roots of Western Culture: Pagan, Secular, and Christian Options (Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd Series B, Vol 3)

Christian Philosophy and the Meaning of History (Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd. Series B, Vol 1)

Reformation and Scholasticism in Philosophy: The Greek Prelude (The Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd)

Reformation & Scholasticism in Philosophy