Politics, Economic Dilemmas and Trade-Unionism
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.
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.
You have heard about the sexual revolution in the 60s, but did you know that there was a second sexual revolution?
The idea of a divine creation order, which until recently has been very popular in Calvinist thinking, has a long history.
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.
We have rejected divine revelation as the basis of truths not only about God but about human nature, and in turn ignored it as the source of human understanding and human flourishing.
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.
In “The Abolition of Man”, C.S. Lewis demonstrated how the public education of his day fundamentally contradicted the common aims and pedagogy and moral framework of education hitherto maintained throughout human history.
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.