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Descartes’ Theory of Contingency

In 1630, Descartes wrote a letter to Mersenne in which he stated a doctrine which was to shock his contemporaries… It was so unorthodox and so contrary to the prevailing theological opinion that Descartes was reluctant to make it public.

Capitalism and Progress

In two extensive volumes Spengler expounded the well-known thesis that the law of birth, maturity, and death applies not only to plants and animals but holds equally for civilizations.

At Work and Play

The responsibility of the Christian intellectual is to integrate faith and knowledge. The data, insights, facts and discoveries must not be dealt with as though they belonged to a world other than that in which faith exists.

A New Critique of Theoretical Thought, Vol. III

It is undoubtedly true that in the pre-theoretical attitude we continue to experience the identity of a thing, while observing it to be susceptible to change. There is, however, a limit to the amount of change that is compatible with our experience of the identity of a thing.

A New Critique of Theoretical Thought, Vol. II

In the Prolegomena we discovered the cosmic order of time, which, as the limit to our ‘earthly’ temporal cosmos, determines the structure of reality in its diversity of meaning, both as regards its modal and typical laws and its subjectivity, including its subject-object-relations.

Creation and Evolution

The book of Prof. Dr. Jan Lever, entitled “Creation and Evolution” (1956), which appeared in an excellent English translation from the hand of Dr. P.G. Berkhout, is at present among the most discussed works in Reformed theological circles, both here and abroad, in the sphere of the relation between faith and science.