The time has come for students, colleagues and friends to pay homage to Jan Adriaan Louw Taljaard, one of the South African pioneers in philosophy, dedicated to the task of elaborating a vision of reality according to the spirit of God’s Word.
Any familiarity at all with the patterns of power distribution in modern society reveals to us the proverbial battle between capital and labour, employer and employee.
The idea of a divine creation order, which until recently has been very popular in Calvinist thinking, has a long history.
From time immemorial human beings were perplexed by the mighty complexity of the world we live in.
Although our school system and school curriculums only refer to philosophy here and there, philosophy is actually the mother-science from which all other sciences originated – including the subjects given at school.
The study of Dooyeweerd is urgent for Reformed theology if it is to continue to do its work reformationally.
Wherever you turn, it’s the same story. Don’t drag religion into the lecture hall. Keep religion out of politics. Labor organizations are religiously neutral. Business and religion don’t mix. Etc.
As in most North American, academic settings, aesthetic theory maintains an uneasy existence somewhere in between epistemology and value theory in a philosophy department.
The study of modern philosophical systems and of the early Church Fathers influenced Roman Catholic thought more profoundly than anyone at first had suspected.
