The Philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd

by D. F. M. Strauss

Publisher:

Paideia Press

, 2021

Overview

For the first time, in the 20th century, the Dutch legal scholar and philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd developed and introduced to the world a distinctly biblical philosophy untainted by pagan syntheses, what could be adequately called “reformational” philosophy. But this philosophy has remained obscure to most Christians, while the Church at large has unwittingly drunk from the depths of apostate pagan philosophy dressed in Christian religious garb. This book by D.F.M. Strauss is an excellent introduction and brief survey of Herman Dooyeweerd’s Christian, reformational, and biblical philosophy.

Key Features

• Offers an excellent introduction to the philosophical work of Herman Dooyeweerd
• Provides a brief survey of Herman Dooyeweerds’s Christian, reformational, and biblical philosophy
• Explores reformational philosophy as developled by Dooyeweerd

Contents

• Western Philosophy
• Ground Motives
• The Basic Contours of Dooyeweerd’s Philosophy
• The Dimension of Ontic Time
• The Dimension of (Natural and Societal) Entities
• The Legacy of Reformational Philosophy

Product Details

• Title: The Philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd
• Author: D. F. M. Strauss
• Publisher: Paideia Press
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Pages: 148
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9780888152800, 0888152809
• Resource ID: LLS:PHLSPHYHRMDYWRD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-24T01:35:20Z

About D. F. M. Strauss

D.F.M. Strauss was born in 1946 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. At the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa) he obtained the B.A., B.A. Honours and M.A. Degrees [the M.A. Thesis - on Philosophy and the Special Sciences - was published in 1970 (358 pp.)]. He then went to the Free University of Amsterdam where he completed the theoretical doctoral examination (cum laude) in November 1970 (main subject: systematic philosophy; other subjects: (a) modern philosophy and (b) General Theory of Law and Dutch Penal Law). On December 7, 1973 he defended his Ph.D. dissertation at the Free University - on the distinction between Concept and Idea. (Prof H. Van Riessen was his promoter.) In 1971 he was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the then UFS and in October 1978 he became Head of the Department of Philosophy. From 1994 to 1996 he lived in Canada as the First Director of the Dooyeweerd Centre, assuming at once the position of General Editor of the Collected Works of the Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd. Since April 1, 1998 until December 31, 2001 he was Dean of the newly merged Faculty of Humanities (incorporating the former Faculties of Arts, Education and Social Sciences). Besides 15 publications, presenting papers at 38 International Conferences and contributing 19 chapters to independent works, more than 200 articles from him appeared in National and International Journals.