I cannot possibly explain what such a wide-orbed perspective would mean for the various academic disciplines or the various segments of culture. Like everyone else’s, my range of expertise is limited. Like Secularism, it insists that Christians restrict the practice of their religion to church and to the sphere of the private. Islam, especially where it is the majority religion, insists that it is a whole way of life, but refuses to recognize the same for its minority counterpart religions. It is not only Secularism that defines religion in such a narrow restrictive way. You can explore this further by reading “ What is Neo-Calvinism?” (The Neo-Calvinist Research Institute, Kampen, The Netherlands) and then read almost anywhere on this page and most other pages of this website. Evan Runner, Hendrik Hart, along with an international raft of educational, political and other social institutions. Names that come to mind first of all and with which this page begins, are Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, Herman Dooyeweerd, H. Opinions or theories do not change reality.Ī long line of scholars, starting with John Calvin or possibly even further back, have developed resistance to that narrow Secular interpretation of Christianity. Historically, the one source of truth and its resultant truth, respectively reason and the empirical, have largely pushed out the spiritual source of truth- but only in the minds or thinking of people, I should hasten to add, not in reality. That Secular arrangement has been described as dualism, in which there are two different sources of truth and indeed, two different truths. The latter has inherited the tradition of Scholasticism that traditionally has separated life and religion and leaves only a small part of life to religion, while the rest of life is Secular, i.e., non-religious, profane. This is an interpretation of the Gospel and of its resultant wholistic religion, a full-orbed Christianity, that Secularism resists. When I refer to a “more wholistic version,” I am speaking of a Gospel that is not reduced to church and the private area of life, but that touches every area of life or, as in the expression made so famous by Abraham Kuyper, a Gospel that affects every square centimetre of this creation. Some items on this page may not focus on that, but it does hold true for most. The purpose of this entire website, and definitely of this particular page, is to promote a more wholistic version of the Christian Gospel. This website contains almost the entire world of Reformational philosophy, past and present, especially its major authors. Peter Turkstra Library: Reformational Philosophy. OR Jonathan Chaplin from Public Justice Review.
– Gideon Strauss, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto They also confess that, in spite of human willfulness and blindness, all humans can and often do glimpse something of this order simply as they make their way in life.” “Christians confess that all human beings, whether they know it or not, inhabit a shared order of creation -a constituting, sustaining, and guiding framework for human and social life that, where followed, enables the enjoyment of shalom. “Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reasons, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.” – Charles Malik, former UN Secretary General More potent than by any other means, change the university and you change the world.” “The Church can render itself no greater service than to recapture the universities for Christ. “The heart has its reasons the mind will never know.” “It is a matter of life and death for this young philosophy that Christian scholars in all fields of science seek to put it to work in their own specialty.”Ī New Critique of Theoretical Thought, vol. Missiology*, Dialogue*, Apologetics* (MDA*) Religion-Institutions*, Journals, Magazinesįreedom* of Religion, (In)tolerance*, Persecution* Legal-Trinity* Western University Law School Succeeding* Generations and Friends*–Generalistsġ1.