http://ittowt.blogsome.com A study guide to Dooyeweerd's In the Twilight of Western Thought Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:17:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to a study guide for Herman Dooyeweerd’s In the Twilight of Western Thought. It is at the moment a working document. If any one has any comments, criticism or suggestions please make them! A version of the guide is also available at ... http://ittowt.blogsome.com/2005/09/11/introduction/ 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. ... http://ittowt.blogsome.com/2005/09/11/introductions-to-dooyeweerd/ Summary Rushdoony in his introduction to this book does not provide a review but rather ‘an analysis of its general significance’. R. J. Rushdoony 1916-2001 Review questions   1. Why, according to Rushdoony, would Dooyeweerd be the first to ‘disclaim originality’ to ... http://ittowt.blogsome.com/2005/09/11/rushdooneys-1960-introduction/ Summary pretended autonomy of thought pp 1-4 Dooyeweerd opens by drawing attention to a problem for claiming a Christian starting point for philosophy: the dogma of the autonomy of theoretical thought. Theoretical reason is held to be self-sufficient, the ultimate judge, thus this dogma implies that thought ought to be independent ... http://ittowt.blogsome.com/2005/09/10/the-pretended-autonomy-of-philosophical-thought-i/ Dooyeweerd at the end of his first lecture (Chapter 1) introduces hi theme for this lecture by posing some questions:  What is the nature of the enigmatical I?  How can we arrive at real self-knowledge? Read the next chapter with these questions in mind. Summary the enigmatic character of the ego pp 27-30 Chapter 2 takes ... http://ittowt.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/the-pretended-autonomy-of-theoretical-thought-ii/ This and the subsequent chapter look at ‘historicism’. Historicism is the absolutization of one of the modal aspects. Elsewhere Dooyeweerd wrote: Historicism is the fatal illness of our ‘dynamic’ times. There is no cure for this decadent view of reality s long as the scriptural creation motive does not ... http://ittowt.blogsome.com/2005/09/08/the-sense-of-history-and-the-historical-world-and-life-view-i/ At the end of the previous lecture/ chapter Dooyeweerd introduces two questions that will be addressed here:  What is the snare in the historicist view of our temporal world in both its forms?  What is the real place and meaning of the historical aspect in the temporal order of our experience? Read the ... http://ittowt.blogsome.com/2005/09/07/the-sense-of-history-and-the-historical-world-and-life-view-ii-2/ Summary introduction pp 113-114 As Dooyeweerd’s philosophy claims to have a radical Christian starting point he has to address the relationship between philosophy and theology. He sharply distinguishes between Christian philosophy and theology. This view has had not had much success in Christian circles, largely as a result of the Greek ... http://ittowt.blogsome.com/2005/09/06/philosophy-and-theology-i-2/ Summary This section seeks to address the question: What is the proper scientific study of theology? introduction 132-3 God’s revelation in his Word is the source of theological knowledge – it functions as a central starting point. Theology does not give us a philosophical total view of the relationship between the different modal aspects ... http://ittowt.blogsome.com/2005/09/05/philosophy-and-theology-ii/ Summary In his third and final lecture on philosophy and theology Dooyeweerd shows the influence of Greek philosophy through Thomism on theology. introduction pp 157 The Word-revelation and the Christian life of faith are not theoretical in character – they do not need a philosophical foundation. However, dogmatic theology has a scientific character ... http://ittowt.blogsome.com/2005/09/04/philosophy-and-theology-iii/ It is fitting, given that the previous lecture dealt with the problems in anthropology that arise from theology accommodating to non-Christian philosophy, that Dooyeweerd’s final lecture should deal with the question ‘What does it mean to be human?’ or as Dooyeweerd puts it: ‘What is man?’   introduction 173-6 The question ‘What ... http://ittowt.blogsome.com/2005/09/03/what-is-man/ First Testament Genesis 1 [103] (allusion) 1:28 91 [63] 2: 2 … [115] 3:5 ... http://ittowt.blogsome.com/2005/09/02/scripture-index/