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"If God is sovereign, then his lordship must extend over all of life, and it cannot be restricted to the walls of the church or within the Christian orbit." Abraham Kuyper Common Grace 1.1.

Tuesday 23 August 2011

Herman Dooyeweerd timeline

Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977)

1894
Birth in Amsterdam

1917
Doctorate in jurisprudence from the VU on the Dutch constitutional law "De Ministerraad in het Nederlandse Staatsrecht" - supervised by D. P. D. Fabius

1918-21
Civil servant at the department of labour


1919
Father dies

1921-1926
Assistant director of the Abraham Kuyper Foundation
Wrote The Struggle for a Christian Politics (English translation  Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2009).

1920
Begins to publish major articles

1922
Debate with Scholten on 'State interference and individual freedom'
Discussions with brother-in-law D. H. Th. Vollenhoven

1923
'The Calvinistic principles of sphere sovereignty as political principle'

1924
Marries Jantiena Wilhelmina Fernhout on 19th September

1926-1985
Appointed as professor of jurisprudence at the VU

1931
The Crisis of Humanist Political Theory as Seen from a Calvinist Cosmology and Epistemology (1931 [English translation  Grand Rapids: Paideia, 2010]).

1935
De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee (Amsterdam, 1935–36) [English translation The Philosophy of the Cosmonomic ldea (Philadelphia: P&R, 1953–58)]

1936
Opposed by VU's V Hepp
Synod dismisses accusations
Starts Philosophia Reformata with D H Th Vollenhoven
Founds the Association for Calvinistic [Reformational] Philosophy

1944
Disagrees with GK over the disposition of Klaas Schilder

1945-6
Writes a series of articles for newspaper  Nieuw Nederland which become Roots of Western Culture (English translation Wedge, 1979)


1946
Delivers a series on lectures on sociologt at the University of Delft - these become A Christian Theory of Social Institutions (Engl. Transl. by Magnus Verbrugge; Dooyeweerd Foundation, 1986)

1947
Introduction to transcendental criticism of philosophic thought. Evangelical Quarterly 19: 47-51

1948
Member of the Dutch Royal Academy
Mother dies
Transcendental Problems of Philosophic Thought: An Inquiry into the Transcendental Conditions of Philosophy. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids.


1951
'The contest about the concept of sovereignity in modern jurisprudence and political science' Free University Quarterly 1: 85-106.

1959
Visits North America
In the Twilight of Western Thought (Craig Press, 1960)

1975
Last article written for Philosophia Reformata
Interview with Pieter Boeles

1977
Death

1994
Dooyeweerd Centre founded

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