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.
The fractured individualism evident in our culture has made people seek forms of identity in pursuit of freedom, but it is a freedom never attained and at cost of the family.
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.
What is the meaning of this Philosophy? It is a fact generally known that the student who sets himself to study the history of Philosophy finds himself much embarrassed and even disappointed because he must observe profound disagreement between the different schools even with regard to the most fundamental principles of philosophy.