English translation of Dooyeweerd's biography soon to appear

Paideia Press are in the process of translating the biography of Herman Dooyeweerd, by his son-in-law Marcel E. Verburg, Herman Dooyeweerd: leven en werk van een Nederlands christen-wijsgeer (Ten Have, Netherlands Baarn/Passage, 1989).

 Here's the proposed contents:

CONTENTS 

DOOYEWEERD INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY

Author’s Preface   – xii

Acknowledgments   – xiii

Translators Note   – xviii

Abbreviations   – xix

Chapter One – Youth, 1894–1922   – 1 

School days 4 Woltjer 4
Law study 5
Earliest writings 7 

Neo-mysticism and Frederik van Eeden 9
Wagnerianism 11 

Dramatic arts 12 Philosophy 13
Completion of doctoral 

studies 15 Reviews of dissertation 17
 Dooyeweerd as a civil 

servant 18
 First public speech 20
Immanent criticism 22 

Critical realism 24
 Dooyeweerd comments on his own development 31

Chapter Two – At The Kuyper Foundation, 1922-1926   – 37 

Roman Catholic and Anti-Revolutionary Politics 44
Cosmos and Logos 48 

Thinking, meaning-giving and meaning 53
The modal 

categories of logical thought 54 The transition to cosmology 57

New white papers 60
The law 61 The law-idea (Wetsidee) 61 

Sphere-sovereignty 64 Further white papers 67
The monthly 

Nederland en Oranje 67
The Association of Calvinist Jurists 69 

Antirevolutionaire Staatkunde 71 Co-determination, or industrial democracy 75
Antirevolutionaire Staatkunde undergoes a change 77 

Calvinism contra neo-Kantianism 79
Marriage
81 Dependence on Nicolai Hartmann? 82

Chapter Three – The Early Years as Professor, 1926-1931   – 87 

Filling the vacancy 87
Vollenhoven 91
 Differences between 

Dooyeweerd and Vollenhoven 95
Congratulations from Kohnstamm 97
The appointemnt made official 97
Advisory status 98 

Inaugural oration 99
Augustine, Thomas, Luther 103 

The universal law-idea of Calvinism 103
Sovereignty of the law-spheres 104
The law-idea in the science and philosophy of law 106 

Conclusion of the inaugural 107
 Reactions to the 

inaugural 109
Teaching courses in the Law Faculty 110 

vii First lecture 111
The Geelkerken Affair 115
Synthesis 117 

Family circumstances 119
Subject-functions and object- functions 120 

Criticism of the conceptual apparatus 122 

A debate with Leo Polak 123
Dooyeweerd’s answer 125 

An anthropological note 129
The professors’ scholarly contributions 131
Cosmic time 131

 Legal principles and the historical law-sphere 133 

Thing structures 136 

Law-spheres 136
The institution of marriage 137
 Gerbrandy’s 

criticism 137
Co-determination in Amsterdam 139
State intervention 140 

The Annals of Critical Philosophy 143 

Sphere-universality 144
 The idea of a “Great Netherlands 

Culture” 145
Rehabilitation 147
Toward a magnum opus 150

Chapter Four – Carrying On As Professor, 1931-1934   – 153 

The Law Faculty 153
The Crisis in Humanist Political Theory 153 

Reviews 160 The meaning of history 164
 Dooyweerd’s rectorship 166
The sources of positive law 171 

Germany and the New Order 174
Organic suffrage 175 

The congress of the 

Calvinist Student Movement 179
The Second International 

Congress of Calvinists 179

Chapter Five – De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee (1935-36)   –185 

The Preface 186
Volume One 188
The selfhood 188
Parts II and III of Volume One 190 

Volume Two 196
Volume Three 200 

Enkaptic structural interlacements 205
Conclusions 207 

Reviews 209
Professor Bellon 210
Professor Robbers 210 

Dr. Goedewaagen 212
 Professor Franken 212 Personal 

reactions 213 Professor Stoker 215
 The Association for Calvinist Philosophy 216 

Periodical publications 219 

International congress on penal law 220
Jewish Jurists 221 

Fascism 222
Christian employers 223
The Christian Idea of The State 224

Chapter Six – Disputes At The Free University   – 229 

Prelude 230
The first brochure
231 Reactions in the press 234 

The second brochure 235
The Board of Curators acts 236 

Professor Hepp’s interview with Curators 237
 Dooyeweerd’s 

first memorandum 248
 Professor Hepp’s memorandum 242 

Dooyeweerd’s second memorandum 248
The Curators 

deliberate further 255
 Dooyeweerd’s theses 256
Hepp’s theses 257

Chapter Seven – Clarifying The Course, 1937-1939   – 261 

The Kuyper centenary 261
What the Philosophy of the Law-Idea 

owed Dr. Kuyper 263
The heart 265 Kuyper’s philosophy of science 266 

An improvisation about the concept of substance 270 

viii The presuppositions of theoretical thought 272
The transcendental critique of theoretical thought 274 

Dissemination of 

the Philosophy of the Law-Idea 278
Other publications 280 

Addresses 283
Switzerland 284
Juliana Hospital 287 

Family life 289

Chapter Eight – Wartime Occupation, 1940-1945   – 293 

The Law Faculty 293 The transcendental critique 295
 The four 

religious ground-themes 297 The meaning of marriage 299 

The new “Question and Answer” column 301
Reformation and Scholasticism 305
 Maurice Hauriou 309 

Thomism 310 

Interruption of instruction 313
The syllabi on Encyclopedia of the Science of Law 314 

The syllabus on Private and Public Law 318
 Encyclopedia of the Science of Law 319 

The Schilder Affair 319
Disagreements at the Free University 323 

The transcendental critique in action: Ovink and Pos 324 

Guidelines for industrial organization 328
The Dooyeweerd family 333

Chapter Nine – Renewal and Reflection, 1945-1950   – 337 

A new Netherlands 337
Further exposition of the transcendental critique 343 

Dooyeweerd and Robbers 344
The Schilder Affair and the Association for Calvinist Philosophy 354 

Professor B. Holwerda 349 Rev. E. G. van Teylingen 351 

The debate 352
Addresses to the Association for Calvinistic Philosophy 354 

Other addresses and publications 356 

The Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences 357
The question of the Dutch East Indies 358
Reformation and Scholasticism in Philosophy, Volume One 360 

The passing of Harry Diemer 363 

Private chairs for Calvinist Philosophy 364

Chapter Ten – Further Elaborations, 1950-1958   – 367 

A visit to South Africa 369 Highlights of the years 370 

Twenty-five years as professor 370
Professor Kohnstamm 372 

Professor Miskotte 374
Reformed critics: Isaac Diepenhorst and Dirk Jellema 375 

Scholarly attention from Roman Catholics 378 

Journeys to France 380
Publications in the field law 382
 A New Critique of Theoretical Thought 389 

Volume One of A New Critique 391
 Volume Two of A New Critique 393
Volume Three of A New Critique 394 

The status of A New Critique 396
Contributions to reference works 397 

Journeys to other countries 399
The Association for the 

Philosophy of Law 401 ix 

Chapter Eleven – Recognition, Reflection, Dialogue, 

1959-1964   – 407 

Creation and evolution 407
What is Christian philosophy? In 

dialogue with van Peursen 418
Van Peursen answers Dooyeweerd 426 

Dooyeweerd’s unfinished response 426 

The future of Western culture 432
The autonomy of philosophic thought 432
Philosophical anthropology 435 Taking stock 440 

Policies regarding government subsidies 444

Chapter Twelve – At Journey’s End 449 

Emeritation 450
Philosophy and Christianity 453
Other publications occasioned by Dooyeweerd’s retirement 455

 A brief return to the Free University 457 

Commemorating his teacher 457 

Penal law 458
An honorary doctorate 459 

Later publications and discussions 459
In discussion with Cornelius Van Til 461 

Other critics in the United States 464 

Further publications 466

Chapter Thirteen – Conclusions   – 475

Appendix – Opening Lecture, Fall 1926   – 485

List of Sources   – 499

Index of Names   – 517

Index of Subjects   – 525

Vollenhoven Foundation Website

The Vollenhoven Foundation has a webiste: http://www.christelijkefilosofie.nl/stichtingvollenhoven/ 

On it there is information about Rob Nijhof's recently defended PhD thesis on "The logos philosophy Jan Woltjer" and an English translation by Harry van Dyke of a memoriam to Tony Tol.

Kuyperania December 2014

As previously mentioned:The second and third parts of Kuyper's Common Grace have now been translated and published by Christian's Library Press:

  

Part 2 details here    Part 3 details here

John Halsey Wood Jr reviews James Bratt's Abraham Kuyper biography.

Hunter Baker reviews the recently translated Scholarship.

Kuyper's 'Liberalists and Jews' from 1878 has been translated by Dr. Jann Schlebusch and is available on line here.

Grönum, N.J. and Janse van Rensburg, F., 2014, ‘Abraham Kuyper's Christian science and empirical science – different yet similar: An investigation into epistemological structures ’, In die Skriflig 48(1), Art. #1786, 8 pages. Online here.

Abstract. Abraham Kuyper wanted his fellow countrymen to accept biblically informed academic output as scientific and therefore authoritative. If Kuyper's plans were to come to fruition, he would have to state the case for a Christian science in a way that made sense to an audience enamoured with empirical science. Kuyper did this when he adopted foundationalism as epistemological thought structure, just like empirical scientists did. He did also differ from empirical science in the sense that he took faith as the foundation for his epistemological thought structure. Although Kuyper's choice for faith as foundation gave him the opportunity to introduce the Bible to scientific endeavour, his acceptance of foundationalism resulted in him dehumanising knowledge the same way empiricist scientist's did.

Kuyperania - A Christmas meditation by Abraham Kuyper

Jordan Ballor over at the Calvinist International has posted one of Kuyper's Christmas meditations from Honey from the Rock (Honig uit de Rotssteen), vol. 2, no. 1 - it is a newly translated piece by James DeJong.

 Honing uit de Rotssteen, vol. 2, no. 1

Abraham Kuyper

“Keeping Watch over Their Flock at Night”

Sir Henry Frederick Ross Catherwood (1925-2014)

Sir Henry Frederick Ross Catherwood (1925-2014)

Elaine Storkey has written a warm tribute to Sir Fred Catherwood who died on 30 November: "Sir Henry Frederick Ross Catherwood (1925-2014): A Tribute"

There was also an obituary in The Guardian by Stephen Bates.

Catherwood was an evangelical who saw, and worked on the principle, that Christian ministry extends beyond the church walls.

As Storkey puts it:

The integration of Fred Catherwood’s Christian faith with his economic and political work was communicated very publicly in two books written during this period: The Christian in Industrial Society, (1964) where he grounds his views on liberty and freedom at work in biblical principles, and The Christian Citizen (1969). He shows himself to be a passionate supporter of democracy. Whilst not blind to its limitations, or to the vulnerability of a minority within it, he sees democracy as ‘…the only form of government which a Christian can accept as his ideal…’ For him, democracy is the fruit of a seed planted in Reformation thinking.

Jeremy Ive on Christian Peacebuilding in South Africa and the Newick Park Initiative

Jeremy's Cambridge paper on it is here.

The Newick Park Initiative (NPI) in South Africa was a Christian initiative which helped to build the trust and a shared national vision across the political spectrum in the years around the release of Nelson Mandela in early 1990. It also prepared the ground for the mediation of Professor Washington Okumu in 1994 which made possible the peaceful conduct of the first fully non-racial elections of that year. The relational principles governing NPI are a guide for Christian peacebuilding at a national level, applicable in other contexts as well.

Kuyperania November 2014

There is a review of Bratt's biography: Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat in

Ward, Rowland S. Abraham Kuyper: Modern calvinist, Christian democrat [Book Review] [online]. Reformed Theological Review, The, Vol. 73, No. 2, Aug 2014: 136-138. Availability: ISSN: 0034-3072. [cited 05 Nov 14].

Interview with Al Wolters

Al Wolters is interviewed after his lectures titled 'Worldviews in the Bible' at Vancouver Institute for Evangelical Worldview.

Kuyper's Common Grace Volume 1 now completed

The second and third parts of Kuyper's Common Grace have now been translated and published by Christian's Library Press:

  

Part 2 details here    Part 3 details here