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The attempt to reduce what is truly unique to something else leads to the deification of something or some aspect within creation, normally accompanied by imperialistic "all"-claims such as, "everything is number," "everything is matter," "everything is feeling," "everything is historical" or "everything is interpretation." The distortions thus created inevitably result in insoluble anti-nomies.A Christian approach to scholarship, directed by the central biblical motive of creation, fall and redemption and guided by the theoretical idea that God subjected all of creation to His Law-Word, delimiting and determining the cohering diversity we experience within reality, in principle safe-guards those in the grip of this ultimate commitment and theoretical orientation from absolutizing anything within creation.

Probing the Past is the fifth volume in the series Academic Introductions for Beginners which has so far addressed Philosophy, Politics, Theology, and Psychology. The present volume probes into a series of fundamental questions regarding the formative unfolding of the creation order. Beginning with the question of how to properly characterize history, Ouweneel goes on to ask about the "meaning" of history; can we discern distinctive "patterns" or "epochs" in history; how should we understand God''s "providence" in history; and finally how does "the Kingdom of God" relate to the empirical unfolding of what is commonly called "world history"? "History is never just a recording of the mere facts, apart from the question whether such things exist in the first place. As I have explained in my Wisdom for Thinkers, facts are always facts-for-people; they are always contextually delineated. As far as we can ascertain, the Greek historian Thucydides (c. 460 - c. 395 BC) was the first, other than his somewhat older contemporary Herodotus (c. 484 - 425 BC), who attempted to limit himself to ''the facts.'' However, both the choice and the representation of ''relevant'' facts means that the historian has to develop some ideas, not only about the when, where, and how of history but also about the why." - From the Introduction

The Encyclopedia of the Science of Law constitutes the first scholarly domain in which Dooyeweerd tested his radically new understanding of created reality, informed by the biblical basic motive of creation, fall, and redemption. The Science of Law represents the academic discipline in which Dooyeweerd was trained and in which he developed exceptional expertise. Therefore, it must be clear that the publication of this comprehensive and authoritative multi-volume series will contribute significantly to the ever growing legacy of reformational philosophy.From the editor''s Preface.

┬┐QU├ë ES UNA COSA? ┬┐CU├üL ES LA NATURALEZA DE LA REALIDAD? Hay solamente 26 letras en el alfabeto ingl├⌐s. Pero con esas 26 letras se pueden formar m├ís de un mill├│n de palabras en el lenguaje ingl├⌐s. Solamente hay 88 notas en un teclado com├║n. Ponga esas notas a disposici├│n de m├║sicos entrenados y sus instrumentos, y Bono y Beethoven enviar├ín al alma a volar. Los n├║meros del 0 al 9 son n├║meros enteros. Es todo lo que son ---diez d├¡gitos. No obstante, este pu├▒ado de d├¡gitos permite que la numeraci├│n se vaya al infinito. Los estudiantes de ciencias est├ín ├¡ntimamente familiarizados con la Tabla de los Elementos. Dos partes de hidr├│geno y una de ox├¡geno forman agua. Sin ella cesar├¡a la vida. Son indispensables los fundamentos para adquirir conocimiento. Son las vigas de acero con base en las cuales se construye el entero paradigma del conocimiento. Es as├¡ que todo mundo conoce sus ABCs, sus Do-Re-Mis y sus 1-2-3. Pero ┬┐sab├¡a usted que casi nadie puede resumir, en orden, los diecis├⌐is modos en los que existen todas las cosas (entes) sobre la tierra?  "┬┐QU├ë CONSTITUYE LA UNIDAD Y LA DIVERSIDAD DE LA REALIDAD?" Tiene usted en sus manos una clara explicaci├│n de los diecis├⌐is modos en los que todas las cosas funcionan. Willem (Guillermo) Ouweneel, quien posee doctorados en biolog├¡a, filosof├¡a y teolog├¡a, conduce brillantemente al lector, a trav├⌐s de las que son llamadas las "diecis├⌐is modalidades". Willem escribi├│ este libro sobre el supuesto de que la mayor├¡a de los lectores carecen de familiaridad con lo que constituye la divinamente estructurada unidad y diversidad de la realidad. ┬íDespu├⌐s de leer este libro tendr├í usted un mejor entendimiento y apreciaci├│n de la creaci├│n y el ingenio de su creador! En el proceso encontrar├í tambi├⌐n la respuesta al acertijo que ha eludido a los fil├│sofos desde Plat├│n y Arist├│teles.

The set to which this volume belongs is informally entitled "The Eternal Series," because each volume of the set unfolds an aspect of the reality of God's relationship with humanity that reaches from eternity past to eternity future. The formal title of the series is "An Evangelical Introduction to Reformational Theology." Here are the volume titles: Part I: Scripture: The Revealed Source For TheologyI/1 The Eternal Word: God Speaking To UsI/2 The Eternal Torah: Living Under GodPart II: God: The Personal Source Behind TheologyII/1 The Eternal God: God Revealing Himself To UsII/2 The Eternal Christ: God With UsII/3 The Eternal Spirit: God Living In UsPart III: Redemption: The Christ-Centered Heart of TheologyIII/1 The Eternal Purpose: Living In ChristIII/2 Eternal Righteousness: Living Before GodIII/3 Eternal Salvation: Christ Dying For UsIII/4 Eternal Life: Christ Living In UsPart IV: Consummation: The Lived Shape of TheologyIV/1 The Eternal People: God in Relation To IsraelIV/2 The Eternal Covenant: Living With GodIV/3 The Eternal Kingdom: Living Under ChristPart V: Method: The Comprehensive Foundation of TheologyV/1 Eternal Truth: The Prolegomena of TheologyThese volumes have been written for the informed Christian who is somewhat familiar with both the Bible and Christian theology.As you will learn in these volumes, that order-first Bible and then theology-is crucially important. So too is the distinction (but not the separation!) between these two: the Bible is not theology, and theology is not the Bible. Both following that order and honoring that distinction are prerequisites for healthy, charitable, and enduring Christianity.Dr. Willem J. Ouweneel is a Dutch author whose three doctorates-one each in biology, philosophy, and theology-rank him among the premier Bible scholars of this generation, and equip him with breadth of vision and depth of insight.When these volumes are read alongside an open Bible, the patient reader will acknowledge the authority of the claims being defended. The reader's certitude will ultimately come to rest, not in any particular theological system or model, but in the inspired, infallible Word of God, and more importantly, in the God of that Word. As such, this entire series and these volumes are fresh and faithful reformulations of the essence of biblical faith and life as that was transmitted throughout the centuries, was rediscovered in the Reformation, and has come to be known as Reformational theology: sola Scriptura, sola gratia, sola fide, solus Christus, soli Deo gloria.

"Highly esteemed Mr. Dooyeweerd: yours is the great merit to have seen that today we can no longer philosophize, as was still possible in the so-called modern era, without answering the question - or at least raising it - in what way philosophy and Christianity relate to each other. Today we know all too well that all philosophizing takes place against the background of a culture that in essential respects is determined by its religion, even in its anti-religious voices and moods or in its seemingly indifferent discussions and argumentation. The period in which philosophy and religion marched separately (or claimed that they could and should do so) is gone."Richard Kroner, Professor of Philosophy, University of Kiel

The collected essays, lectures, and occasional speeches of Dr. Howard Evan Runner in a new four-volume format. Professor Runner was the leading representative of The Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea, the comprehensive Christian philosophy inaugurated by Herman Dooyeweerd and D. Th. Vollenhoven. Penetrating, prophetic, and profoundly insightful are just some of the terms necessary to describe this invaluable collection from the pen of the foremost North American Reformational scholar. Here you will find inspiration, analysis, and a vigorous call to action across the entire range of human experience, all driven by an unwavering commitment to the Word of God.

Roots and Branches is a broad-ranging collection of writings that analyzes the philosophical foundations of a number of crucial movements, ideas and writers of the twentieth century including Rudolph Bultman, Nicolas Berdyaev, Karl Jaspers, and a four part series on Paul Tillich. The final section of the book is devoted to four articles that expertly addresses the work of Herman Dooyeweerd.

Opening the Scriptures is neither a new series of technical commentaries, nor is it a collection of sermons. Instead it offers devout church members a series of popularly accessible primers so that the average churchgoer can easily grasp them.The organization of this series follows the four main sectional divisions of Holy Scripture: the Torah, the many prophetic books, the Psalms and wisdom books, and the New Testament. The authors of Opening the Scriptures show throughout that Holy Scripture is from A to Z the Book of God''s covenant with His people.

Special scientists have two options (but just one choice):(i) either they give an account of the philosophical presuppositions with which they work - in which case they operate with a philosophical view of reality, or (ii) implicitly (and uncritically) proceed from one or another philosophical view of reality - in which case they are the victims of a philosophical view (page 59)."...Precisely because it is impossible to dispense with a philosophy of nature, even present natural science adopts a philosophy of nature. But since it has censored and removed this philosophy at a conscious level, very often reduces itself to using an implicit one, that results from scattered items, is usually unreflected and, practically, is that which was contained in the science of past times but is now insufficient" (Agazzi, 2001:11)."We should have philosophers trained as philosophers, as rigorously as possible, and at the same time audacious philosophers who cross the borders and discover new connections, new fields, not only interdisciplinary researches but themes that are not even interdisciplinary" (Derrida, 1997:7)."Philosophical reflection must begin with the analysis of concepts we use; for these provide the frame of reference and determine the direction our inquiry will take" (Von Bertalanffy, 1966:116).

En el ocaso del pensamiento occidental fue publicado originalmente a partir de una serie de conferencias dictadas por el Dr. Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977) entre los años 1957 y 1959, en diferentes lugares de Estados Unidos y Canadá. El libro fue posteriormente revisado y reimpreso varias veces. La presente traducción corresponde a la edición más reciente, la cual agrega características importantes como la incorporación de referencias bibliográficas (la obra original no contenía ninguna); la reorganización del texto en partes, secciones y subsecciones; así como la retitulación de prácticamente todos los capítulos.La relevancia de esta traducción es que en sus páginas Dooyeweerd mismo nos presenta una excelente introducción a su filosofía, la cual puede verse como un marco teórico distintivamente bíblico para el pensamiento y la acción del pueblo cristiano, tanto en la iglesia como en el mundo de hoy en general.Por su corta extensión pero gran profundidad, la lectura de este texto resultará atractiva para diferentes públicos; ya que resume en buena medida el desarrollo de las ideas presentadas por Dooyeweerd en el primer volumen de su obra magna Una nueva crítica del pensamiento teórico con sus implicaciones reformadoras para las concepciones filosóficas de la ciencia, la historia, la teología y la antropología (esta última desarrollada muy ampliamente en su extensa obra Reforma y escolástica en la filosofía) desde una perspectiva radicalmente escritural.

The collected essays, lectures, and occasional speeches of Dr. Howard Evan Runner in a new four-volume format. Professor Runner was the leading representative of The Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea, the comprehensive Christian philosophy inaugurated by Herman Dooyeweerd and D. Th. Vollenhoven. Penetrating, prophetic, and profoundly insightful are just some of the terms necessary to describe this invaluable collection from the pen of the foremost North American Reformational scholar. Here you will find inspiration, analysis, and a vigorous call to action across the entire range of human experience, all driven by an unwavering commitment to the Word of God.

For the first time, in the 20th century, the Dutch legal scholar and philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd developed and introduced to the world a distinctly biblical philosophy untainted by pagan syntheses, what could be adequately called "reformational" philosophy. But this philosophy has remained obscure to most Christians, while the Church at large has unwittingly drunk from the depths of apostate pagan philosophy dressed in Christian religious garb. This book by D.F.M. Strauss is an excellent introduction and brief survey of Herman Dooyeweerd's Christian, reformational, and biblical philosophy.

Por primera vez, en el siglo XX, el erudito jurídico y filósofo Holandés Herman Dooyeweerd desarrolló e introdujo al mundo una filosofía claramente bíblica no contaminada por las síntesis paganas, lo que podría llamarse adecuadamente filosofía "reformacional". Pero esta filosofía ha permanecido oculta para la mayoría de los cristianos, mientras que la Iglesia en general ha bebido involuntariamente de las profundidades de la filosofía pagana apóstata vestida con atuendo religioso cristiano. Este libro de D.F.M. Strauss es una excelente introducción y breve resumen de la filosofía cristiana, reformacional y bíblica de Herman Dooyeweerd.

When Jesus spoke to the criminal crucified beside him about "Paradise", was He referring to heaven? Or was He referring to something far more significant, the restoration of fellowship between God and mankind? In this riveting booklet, John Hultink challenges us to question the common belief of many of what Jesus meant by "Paradise" and forces us to think biblically. Our faith and hope as Christians can only grow when we come to understand the magnitude of what Jesus accomplished on the cross.

The collected essays, lectures, and occasional speeches of Dr. Howard Evan Runner in a new four-volume format. Professor Runner was the leading representative of The Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea, the comprehensive Christian philosophy inaugurated by Herman Dooyeweerd and D. Th. Vollenhoven. Penetrating, prophetic, and profoundly insightful are just some of the terms necessary to describe this invaluable collection from the pen of the foremost North American Reformational scholar. Here you will find inspiration, analysis, and a vigorous call to action across the entire range of human experience, all driven by an unwavering commitment to the Word of God.

Faith, Life and Theology presents a significantly innovative approach to the broad spectrum of questions normally attached to the issue of "What Is It That Constitutes The Nature Of Theology." Rather than pursuing the highly speculative approaches endemic to Scholasticism, or the biblicistic emphasis on the Scriptures as a textbook on theology, Vander Stelt focuses on what is actually accessible to real, empirical, human study: namely, the phenomenon of faith as it comes to expression in human life in every age, in response to God''s self-disclosure to humankind in Word revelation and in Christ.

WHAT THEN IS THEOLOGY? Throughout the life-time of the Body of Christ, Christians have typically identified theology, a theoretical enterprise, with the everyday non-theoretical language of the Bible. Enthralled with the idea that as the Logos of the Greek philosophers provided an "intelligent... principle of the universe," so too, the first verse of the Gospel of John similarly provides Christians with a rational entrée to the mind of God and his creation. With such a view the Bible easily becomes a textbook regarding the real nature of everything. Hence it is assumed in many orthodox circles that it is the task of theology to provide the systematic organization of the "logical" propositions of the Bible.Ouweneel asks, Is theology really the same as "Bible study", or the "study of Christian doctrine"? Is theology "science"? And if so, what does this involve? How can you distinguish between scientific and non-scientific - or even unscientific - theology? If the Apostles Peter, John, and Paul were indeed "theologians", were they scientific, non-scientific, or unscientific theologians? Does it matter whether theology is "scientific" or not?All these questions and many more evoked by these questions are investigated in this challenging and ground-breaking work by the Dutch theologian Willem J. Ouweneel.

In his momentous and historic address on occasion of the opening of the ICS (Institute for Christian Studies), H. Evan Runner (1916-2002) addresses the cultural crisis of his time - very much a crisis that we have not yet escaped today - and the need for an institution and a missional direction for God's people to counter the forces of evil, the antithesis, the lie of Satan and to advance a truly Christian philosophy of life that is untainted by the pollution of our culture's pagan thoughts and unmistakably pure in its fidelity to Scripture. May Runner's words inspire the generations to come to take up arms and to fight the good fight of faith, a far-reaching comprehensive faith.

The set to which this volume belongs is informally entitled "The Eternal Series," because each volume of the set unfolds an aspect of the reality of God's relationship with humanity that reaches from eternity past to eternity future. The formal title of the series is "An Evangelical Introduction to Reformational Theology." Here are the volume titles: Part I: Scripture: The Revealed Source For TheologyI/1 The Eternal Word: God Speaking To UsI/2 The Eternal Torah: Living Under GodPart II: God: The Personal Source Behind TheologyII/1 The Eternal God: God Revealing Himself To UsII/2 The Eternal Christ: God With UsII/3 The Eternal Spirit: God Living In UsPart III: Redemption: The Christ-Centered Heart of TheologyIII/1 The Eternal Purpose: Living In ChristIII/2 Eternal Righteousness: Living Before GodIII/3 Eternal Salvation: Christ Dying For UsIII/4 Eternal Life: Christ Living In UsPart IV: Consummation: The Lived Shape of TheologyIV/1 The Eternal People: God in Relation To IsraelIV/2 The Eternal Covenant: Living With GodIV/3 The Eternal Kingdom: Living Under ChristPart V: Method: The Comprehensive Foundation of TheologyV/1 Eternal Truth: The Prolegomena of TheologyThese volumes have been written for the informed Christian who is somewhat familiar with both the Bible and Christian theology.As you will learn in these volumes, that order-first Bible and then theology-is crucially important. So too is the distinction (but not the separation!) between these two: the Bible is not theology, and theology is not the Bible. Both following that order and honoring that distinction are prerequisites for healthy, charitable, and enduring Christianity.Dr. Willem J. Ouweneel is a Dutch author whose three doctorates-one each in biology, philosophy, and theology-rank him among the premier Bible scholars of this generation, and equip him with breadth of vision and depth of insight.When these volumes are read alongside an open Bible, the patient reader will acknowledge the authority of the claims being defended. The reader's certitude will ultimately come to rest, not in any particular theological system or model, but in the inspired, infallible Word of God, and more importantly, in the God of that Word. As such, this entire series and these volumes are fresh and faithful reformulations of the essence of biblical faith and life as that was transmitted throughout the centuries, was rediscovered in the Reformation, and has come to be known as Reformational theology: sola Scriptura, sola gratia, sola fide, solus Christus, soli Deo gloria.

The prominent perception of Calvinism is a set of doctrines which have been disputed by proponents of Arminianism ever since both doctrinal positions emerged, but Calvinism is much more than just a set of doctrines, Calvinism is the true religion of the Bible, it is the lived out reality of God's special revelation. It is not solely confined to theological discussions, its scope is vast and extensive, with real societal implications. In this publication, Dooyeweerdian philosopher H. Evan Runner (1916-2002) traces the development of Calvinism in Europe and its arrival in North America, and distinguishes it from its false distortions.

For many people, the secularization of science is a given. the notion that science could have ever been influenced by religion while still remaining, by its definition, "science" is virtually unheard of for the mass populace of today. In this re-printed publication, the Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977) provides a brief but concise explanation as to the ever-present relationship between science and religion and the historical process of the supposed secularization of science, along with who bears the responsibility for our current cultural reality.

Con la edición de este primer volumen de la magna obra Una Nueva Crítica del Pensamiento Teórico del gran pensador neerlandés Herman Dooyeweerd, Paidea Press tiene el honor de iniciar la colección Obras de Dooyeweerd, la cual se propone publicar sus obras principales traducidas a la lengua de Cervantes. La meta inicial es publicar los restantes tres volúmenes de la Nueva Crítica, pero hay otras obras de gran importancia, particularmente Reforma y escolástica en la filosofía, que también ameritan ser publicadas en español. De esta manera Paideia Press, la gran casa editorial reformada del Canadá, se propone fomentar el conocimiento de la filosofía de Dooyeweerd entre los lectores de habla hispana de España y de las Américas. Ello redundará en el enriquecimiento de la cultura filosófica de los países hispánicos y en el avance de la reforma de la filosofía en los mismos, en sujeción al mandato de no conformarse a este siglo y de llevar cautivo todo pensamiento a la obediencia a Cristo.