Die verband tussen skeppingsordinansies en kulturele vormgewing by A. Kuyper
Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Die verband tussen skeppingsordinansies en kulturele vormgewing by A. Kuyper | |
| Creator | van der Walt, M.F. | |
| Description | The relationship between creational ordinances and cultural formations (as seen by A. Kuyper). The central statement of this article is that Abraham Kuyper does not make a clear enough distinction between divine normative creational ordinances on the one side, and human cultural structures on the other. Kuyper defines this relationship in a semi-deterministic (organistic) way. The reason for this semi-deterministic approach can be found in Kuyper’s neo-Platonic logos-speculation and his Romantic-Idealistic use of the organism metaphor. Such a semi-deterministic approach can easily lead to cultural conservatism (for example political conservatism). The proposed answer to Kuyper’s problematic approach implies the following:• Cultural activities should always be seen as free formative action and should not be regarded in a semi-deterministic way.• Cultural activities should always be seen as being partially the result o f the brokenness o f man. Consequently, our knowledge o f divine ordinances as reflected in these activities will always be provisional.• Cultural activities should always be seen against the background of the divine facilitating structure o f the creational ordinances. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1995-01-21 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/koers.v60i2.630 | |
| Source | Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap; Vol 60, No 2 (1995); 237-258 2304-8557 0023-270X | |
| Language | eng | |
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