In the Twilight of Western Thought

There are a number of useful introductions to Dooyeweerd’s WdW. (A fuller list is available here.) These include:

         Books sympathetic to Dooyeweerd’s approach

• L Kalsbeek Contours of a Christian Philosophy: An Introduction to Herman Dooyeweerd’s Thought. Wedge: Toronto, 1975. The sub-title accurately describes the book.
• J M Spier An Introduction to Christian Philosophy. Craig Press: Nutley , NJ, 1973 (orig 1954). The Christian philosophy in the title is WdW.
• S Wolfe A Key to Dooyeweerd. Presbyterian and Reformed: Nutley, NJ, 1978. This introduces Dooyeweerd’s modal theory only and consequently it is much narrower in scope than the other books.
• Roy Clouser The Myth of Religious Neutrality. University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame, 1991. Somewhat more than an introduction to Dooyeweerd’s thought. In it Clouser expounds and defends some of Dooyeweerd’s views.
• Peter Steen The Structure of Dooyeweerd’s Thought. Wedge: Toronto, 1983.
• Yong Joon Choi Dialogue and Antithesis.

Books critical of Dooyewerd’s approach

• Robert A Morey. The Dooyeweerdian Concept of the Word of God. Presbyterian and Reformed, 1974. A polemic criticising Dooyeweerdian uses of the Word of God.
• Vincent Brummer. Transcendental Criticism and Christian Philosophy. T. Wever, 1961.
• Ronald H Nash. Dooyeweerd and the Amsterdam Philosophy. Zondervan: Grand Rapids, 1962. This book aims to introduce readers to Dooyeweerd and point out what he perceives as problems that need clarification or revision.
• J Douma Another Look at Dooyeweerd: Some Critical Notes Regarding the Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea. Premier Publishing, Manitoba, no date.
• John M. Frame and Leonard J. Coppes The Amsterdam Philosophy: A Preliminary Critique.
Articles sympathetic to Dooyeweerd’s approach
• Roy Clouser. A sketch of Dooyeweerd’s philosophy of science. In Facets of Faith and Science. pp.81-97.
• Roy Clouser. The impact of Dooyeweerd’s philosophy on the natural sciences: whence the difference? In Christian Philosophy at the Close of the 20th Century. Ed Griffoen & Balk. Kampen Kok, 1995.
• Andrew Hartley. The philosophy of the law idea and the role of the prescientific in statistical inference Journal of the ACMS Dec 2004.
• Jacob Klapwijk. The struggle for a Christian philosophy: another look at Dooyeweerd. The Reformed Journal. Volume 30 Issue 2 February 1980. Pages 12-15.
• Jacob Klapwijk Dooyeweerd’s Christian philosophy: antithesis and critique. The Reformed Journal Volume 30 Issue 3 March 1980. Pages 20-24.
• Richard Russell In defence of Dooyeweerd and of Christian philosophy Spectrum 23:2 Summer 1991. Pages 147-159.
• James W. Skillen. Herman Dooyeweerd’s contribution to the philosophy of the social sciences. Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation March 1979. Pages 20-24.
• Brian Walsh/ Jon Chaplin. Dooyeweerd’s contribution to a Christian philosophical paradigm.
• William Young. Herman Dooyeweerd. In Creative Minds in Contemporary Theology. Edited by Philip Edgcumbe Hughes. Pages 270-305.
• William Young The nature of man in the Amsterdam philosophy. Westminster Theological Journal. Vol. 22 no 1 1959 p1-12.

Articles critical of Dooyeweerd’s approach

• Lester DeKoster. Editorial: 1. Tour of cosmonomia. The Banner. February 22, 1974. pp. 4-5.
• Lester DeKoster Editorial: 2. Bird’s eye view of cosmonomia. The Banner. March 8,1974. pp. 4-5.
• Antoni Diller. Herman Dooyeweerd – a profile of his thought. Spectrum 22:2 Summer 1990. pp. 138- 154.
• John M. Frame. Toronto, Reformed orthodoxy, and the word of God: Where do we go from here? Vanguard. January-February 1975 . pp. 6-8.