Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation
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Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation

Essays in Reformational Philosophy

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Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation

Essays in Reformational Philosophy

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Reformational philosophy rests on the ideas of nineteenth-century educator, church leader, and politician Abraham Kuyper, and it emerged in the early twentieth century among Reformed Protestant thinkers in the Netherlands. Combining comprehensive criticisms of Western philosophy with robust proposals for a just society, it calls on members of religious communities to transform harmful cultural practices, social institutions, and societal structures.

Well known for his work in aesthetics and critical theory, Lambert Zuidervaart is a leading figure in contemporary reformational philosophy. In Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation - the first of two volumes of original essays from the past thirty years - he forges new interpretations of art, politics, rationality, religion, science, and truth. In dialogue with modern and contemporary philosophers, among them Immanuel Kant, G.F.H Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, JĂźrgen Habermas, and reformational thinkers such as Herman Dooyeweerd, Dirk Vollenhoven, and Hendrik Hart, Zuidervaart explains and expands on reformational philosophy’s central themes. This interdisciplinary collection offers a normative critique of societal evil, a holistic and pluralist conception of truth, and a call for both religion and science to serve the common good.

Illustrating the connections between philosophy, religion, and culture, and daring to think outside the box, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation gives a voice to hope in a climate of despair.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Note about Citations and Revisions
  6. RELIGION, TRUTH, AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
  7. Introduction: Transforming Philosophy
  8. PART ONE Critical Retrieval
  9. 1 The Great Turning Point:Religion and Rationality in Dooyeweerd’s Transcendental Critique(2004)
  10. 2 Reformational Philosophy after Dooyeweerd and Vollenhoven(2006)
  11. 3 Dooyeweerd’s Conception of Truth: Exposition and Critique(2008)
  12. 4 Dooyeweerd’s Modal Theory: Questions in the Ontology of Science(1973)
  13. 5 Fantastic Things:Critical Notes toward a Social Ontology of the Arts(1995)
  14. PART TWO Reforming Reason
  15. 6 God, Law, and Cosmos: Issues in Hendrik Hart’s Ontology(1985)
  16. 7 Artistic Truth, Linguistically Turned:Variations on a Theme from Adorno, Habermas, and Hart(2001)
  17. 8 The Inner Reformation of Reason: Issues in Hendrik Hart’s Epistemology(2004)
  18. 9 Metacritique: Adorno, Vollenhoven, and the Problem-Historical Method(1985)
  19. 10 Defining Humankind: Scheler, Cassirer, and Hart(1988)
  20. PART THREE Social Transformation
  21. 11 Good Cities or Cities of the Good?Radical Augustinian Social Criticism(2005)
  22. 12 Religion in Public: Passages from Hegel’s Philosophy of Right(2010)
  23. 13 Macrostructures and Societal Principles: An Architectonic Critique1(2011 / 2015)
  24. 14 Unfinished Business: Toward a Reformational Conception of Truth(2009)
  25. 15 Science, Society, and Culture: Against Deflationism(2007)
  26. Epilogue
  27. Earth’s Lament:Suffering, Hope, and WisdomICS Inaugural Address, 21 November 2003
  28. Publication Information
  29. Notes
  30. Works Cited
  31. Index