Bavinck and Vollenhoven on faith
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- Introduction
- The fundamental issue
- The psychological reduction of faith
- Vollenhoven's historical critique
- Important structural point in Vollenhoven's essay
- Individual, communal and genetic functions of faith
- The content/law of faith: Revelation
- Conclusion
- References
Abstract
In 1918, Herman bavinck published an articled entitled "Philosophy of faith" in the Annuarium of the Societas Studiosorum Reformatorum; thirty one years later, Dirk vollenhoven presented a paper entitled "faith: Its Nature, Structure, and Significance for Science" at a Roman Catholic conference about faith and learning. The two essays are strikingly similar in subject matter and demonstrate interesting continutites and discontinuities between bavinck's Reformed-theological perspective and vollenhoven's Reformational-philosophical perspective.
bavinck and vollenhoven immediately command attention when it comes to the subject of faith. Both men were notable for attempting to extend the influence of religion to every sphere of life, bavinck as a pioneer of neo-calvinism, vollenhoven as a champion of reformational philosophy. Both also practiced the world-immersion they preached. vollenhoven wrote his doctoral dissertation about the possibility of a Christian philosophy of mathematics, and he felt no compunction at moving from pastoring to teaching in the Free University. bavinck wrote copiously on such subjects as education, psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy, and he served as chairman of the Anti-Revolutionary Party for a time.
bavinck and vollenhoven immediately command attention when it comes to the subject of faith. Both men were notable for attempting to extend the influence of religion to every sphere of life, bavinck as a pioneer of neo-calvinism, vollenhoven as a champion of reformational philosophy. Both also practiced the world-immersion they preached. vollenhoven wrote his doctoral dissertation about the possibility of a Christian philosophy of mathematics, and he felt no compunction at moving from pastoring to teaching in the Free University. bavinck wrote copiously on such subjects as education, psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy, and he served as chairman of the Anti-Revolutionary Party for a time.
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