Bavinck and Kuyper on Creation and Miracle
It has been the confession of the Church since its earliest days that God created all things and constantly maintains them in existence.
It has been the confession of the Church since its earliest days that God created all things and constantly maintains them in existence.
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.
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.
The following pages contain an edited version of lectures presented by Dr. B. Goudzwaard at an economics and politics seminar sponsored by the Institute for Christian Studies in the summer of 1972.
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.
Although the number of subjects and cross-references given in this Index might be multiplied, this fourth volume of the Critique of Theoretical Thought has already assumed considerable proportions.
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.
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.
Dooyeweerd’s first systematic presentation of hia philosophy filled him with such a deep sense of appreciation to God for the strength He granted him to overcome innumerable difficulties.
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.