Discovering Dooyeweerd

Some time ago I was invited to contribute a brief chapter to an anthology on Herman Dooyeweerd's philosophy by my friend Danie F. M. Strauss. The chapter is called, "Political Idolatry: Assessing the Ideologies of Our Day," and runs for about five and a half pages. There are 61 chapters in total, among whose authors are Strauss himself (who wrote 25), Roy Clouser, Michael Goheen, Calvin Seerveld, Harry Van Dyke, Alan Cameron, James W. Skillen, and Gerit Glas. The book is Discovering Dooyeweerd and is now out from Paideia Press and available for purchase.

Dooyeweerd (1894-1977) was a Dutch Christian philosopher in the tradition of Abraham Kuyper who produced a voluminous amount of scholarship in his field. His magnum opus is A New Critique of Theoretical Thought, whose third volume I have found especially helpful for my own discipline of political science. My PhD dissertation at Notre Dame was on Dooyeweerd's political thought as compared with that of the Neo-Thomist philosopher Yves René Simon. See my Introductory Essay to Herman Dooyeweerd's Political Thought for more information on this important 20th-century philosopher.