Map of Kuyper’s “Maranatha speech”

Concept/mind maps of Bavinck's Personality & Worldview

 

Brent Himes on Kuyper's "Service of the Word"

I've been reading Brant Himes's book For a Better Worldliness - it is very good.

Full details of the book are here

One of the highlights so far is his discussion of Kuyper's, as yet untranslated, book Dienst des Woord (Service of the Word). It is essentially a training manual for pastors.












Below is a concept map of Himes' analysis of the book:

Completed concept map of Basden's Dooyeweerd

I have over the last few days posted concept maps taken from my interpretation of Basden's discussion of Dooyeweerd's philosophy from Chapter 3 of his book Foundations of Information Science

To complete the posts here's a black and white version of all the maps put together - click on the image to enlarge it.

Concept maps of Basden on Dooyeweerd (8 of 8)- things, types & relationships

Concept map of Basden's description of Dooyeweerd's philosophy - things, types & relationships

Concept maps of Basden on Dooyeweerd (7 of 8) - modal aspects

Concept map of Basden's description of Dooyeweerd's philosophy - aspects

Concept maps of Basden on Dooyeweerd (6 of 8) - ground-ideas, philosophies, sciences

Concept map of Basden's description of Dooyeweerd's philosophy- ground-ideas, philosophies, sciences

Concept maps of Basden on Dooyeweerd (5 of 8) - theoretical thought

Concept map of Basden's description of Dooyeweerd's philosophy - theoretical thought

Concept maps of Basden on Dooyeweerd (4 of 8) - subject-object & time

Concept map of Basden's description of Dooyeweerd's philosophy: subject-object & time

Concept maps of Basden on Dooyeweerd (3 of 8) - challenges

Concept map of Basden's description of Dooyeweerd's philosophy - challenges

Concept maps of Basden on Dooyeweerd (2 of 8) - starting points

Concept map of Basden's description of Dooyeweerd's philosophy: Starting points 

Concept maps of Basden on Dooyeweerd (1 of 8)

In a previous post, I put up some 'concept' maps of Danie Strauss' Introduction to Dooyeweerd. In the next few days, I'll post concept maps of Andrew Basden's description of Dooyeweerd's philosophy.

The maps are taken from Chapter 3 of Basden's excellent book Foundations of Information Systems.

Concept map of Dooyeweerd's philosophy - based on Danie Strauss' outline

Danie Straus has written an excellent introduction to Herman Dooyeweerd's Philosophy (2015):

It is available as a pdf here.

I have attempted to summarise it in one concept map (the term is Novak's). Here it is (clicking on the image will enlarge it):

Here's the text outline of the map:

Dooyeweerd's philosophy by DFM Strauss

1. Herman Dooyeweerd
   1. Dogma of the autonomy of theoretical thought
      1. Human reason
         1. Autonomous
         2. No prior theoretical assumptions
         3. Self-sufficient
   2. Early works
      1. 1920s Struggle for Christian Politics
      2. 1926 Inaugural lecture
         1. Free University
      3. 1931 Crisis in humanistic political theory
      4. 1935-36 NCTT
         1. Science of law
      5. 1917 PhD
   3. Philosophical trends
      1. Orderliness of creation
         1. A theoretical view of reality
            1. Can't be avoided
   4. Alternative approach
      1. Theoretical thought
         1. Theoretical view of reality
            1. Ground motive
               1. Christian scholarship
                  1. Christian life and worldview
   5. Transcendental critique
      1. Theoretical thought can't have it's starting point within itself
         1. Then other aspects will be the sole mode of explanation
         2. Must transcend the diversity of all aspects
            1. Needs supra-temporal point of departure
   6. Ground-motives
      1. Communal driving forces
      2. Form-matter
      3. Creation, fall, redemption
      4. Nature-freedom
      5. Nature-grace
2. Ultimate commitments
   1. Religion
      1. 1. Giving direction to all - life-encompassing
      2. 2. Faith
3. Basic contours
   1. Creation
      1. Subject to God-given laws
   2. Creator
   3. Theory of Modal law-sphere
      1. Everyday experience
      2. The 'how' question
      3. Subject-object
         1. All function in all aspects
            1. Humans function actively in all aspects
            2. Plants object functions in post-biotic aspects
            3. Animals object functions in post-sensitive aspects
      4. Multi-aspect of humans
      5. Law side
      6. Factual side
         1. Presuppose
            1. Uniqueness
               1. Sphere-sovereignty
            2. Coherence
               1. Sphere universality
               2. Retrocipations 
               3. Anticipations
                  1. Opened up through process of meaning disclosure
      7. Faith Ethical Jural Aesthetic Economic Cultural-historic Logical-analytical Sensory Biotic Physical Kinematic Spatial Arithmetical 
         1. Meaning-nucleus
            1. Irreducibility
            2. Indefinability
               1. Primitive terms
            3. Uniqueness
4. Dimension of ontic time
   1. Time
      1. Embraces all aspects & entities
      2. Law side
         1. Time duration
      3. Factual side
         1. Time order
5. Dimension of (natural & societal) entities
   1. Entities & events 
      1. Function in all modal aspects
   2. State
      1. Citizens
         1. Quantitative
         2. Alive
            1. Biotic 
      2. Territory
         1. Spatial
      3. Freedom of movement
         1. Kinematic
      4. Power of the sword
         1. Force
      5. Law enforcement
         1. Jural
      6. Tax paying
      7. Sense of belonging- feeling at home
         1. Sensory-psychic
      8. National identity
         1. Logical-analytic
      9. Political parties
         1. Credo
   3. Societies
      1. Differentiated
         1. Qualifying/ guiding functions
      2. Undifferentiated
         1. Extended family
         2. Sib/ clan
6. Legacy of reformational philosophy
1. Foundation for Reformational philosophy
   1. 5 yearly conferences
2. Scholars
   1. Physics
      1. Stafleu
   2. Maths
      1. Strauss
   3. Biology
      1. Diemer
      2. Duyvene De Wit
   4. Linguistics
      1. Weideman
   5. Economic
      1. Goudzwaard
   6. Law
      1. Hommes
   7. Politics
      1. Koyzis
      2. Chaplin
   8. Theology
      1. Ouweneel
      2. Troost
3. Universities
   1. Special chairs in the Netherlands
4. Dooyeweerd's collected works
1. Published
2. Translated

Here are the sections from the complete map: