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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 3 / 2012  
         
  Article:   DOOYEWEERD’S THEORY OF RELIGIOUS GROUND MOTIVES: A FEW IMPLICATIONS FOR CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY AND SCHOLARSHIP.

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  Abstract:   The first part of the article surveys the theory of “religious ground motives” elaborated by Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977), a Dutch Calvinist philosopher and founder of the philosophy of the cosmonomic idea. The main tenets of the theory are highlighted and a few articulations and amendments proposed by adherents to this philosophical school are discusses. The second part provides a few reflections on particular aspects or implications of this theory which I consider relevant for Christian scholarship. Themes like the nature of religion, the dangers of “synthesis” the dialogue between “rival” types of scholarship and the evaluation of alternative theories are explored.

Key words: Herman Dooyeweerd/ religious ground motives/ philosophy of religion/ science and religion / Christian scholarship/ dialogue and opposition in scholarship
 
         
     
         
         
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