Flying on the wings of Vollenhoven’s radical Christian worldview: A reconsideration of the usual typology of Christian worldviews

Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship

 
 
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Title Flying on the wings of Vollenhoven’s radical Christian worldview: A reconsideration of the usual typology of Christian worldviews
 
Creator van der Walt, Barend J.
 
Subject — Education; Typology; Worldviews; Christian
Description This article investigated the traditional typology of Christian worldviews from the perspective of the Christian philosopher, D.H.Th. Vollenhoven (1892−1978). The usual categorisation started by Niebuhr (in 1951), and adopted by some Reformational scholars afterwards, is questioned as too simplistic, forcing Christian thinkers and schools of thought into five pigeonholes. Worldviews − including the Christian ones − are complex phenomena. They should not be considered, for example, as merely logical systems or aesthetic ’stories’. Vollenhoven’s systematic philosophy and historiography of philosophy (his thetical-critical approach) can provide some clues for a new way to describe different Christian worldviews, as well as to arrive at the outlines of a more radical and comprehensive Christian worldview based on God's threefold creational, inscripturated and incarnated revelation.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2012-10-22
 
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Identifier 10.4102/koers.v77i1.31
 
Source Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap; Vol 77, No 1 (2012); 14 pages 2304-8557 0023-270X
 
Language eng
 
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