http://ciots.blogsome.com A study guide to herman Dooyeweerd's The Christian Idea of the State Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:11:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Summary There are two streams in humanistic natural law: State-absolutism and antistate-absolutism. The old-liberal theory of Rechtsstaadt comes from the antistate-absolutism, as does the laissez faire program. A comparison of Calvinism and humanistic natural law: Kuyper’s break with the nature/ grace ... http://ciots.blogsome.com/2008/04/18/p-25-streams-of-humanistic-natural-law/ Summary Humanism began to become the dominant worldview.  It made humanity  sovereign.  It secularised creation, fall and redemption. Revelation was replaced by science Christian freedom was replaced by the the sovereign freedom of the human personality The humanistic worldview entailed a dualism of freedom and nature: It resulted ... http://ciots.blogsome.com/2008/04/18/pp-23-humanism/ Summary The radical break with a nature-grace dualism began with Calvin. This opened up the way for a Christian worldview. Calvin viewed the law as the boundary between God and creation. GOD law CREATION God is not subject ... http://ciots.blogsome.com/2008/04/13/pp-18-21-calvin/ Summary During the 14th century William of Ockham developed, as a reaction against the Thomas-Aristotle compromise, nominalism. Are things good because God decrees them good or dies God declare them good because they are good?  Aquinas held to the latter view, nominalism the first.   Nominalism was an attempt to reassert the ... http://ciots.blogsome.com/2008/04/13/pp-14-18-nominalism/ Summary The state and all social relationships have God-given structures that are rooted in the creation.   The rule of God is total.  There is no area where the kingdom of God does not touch and that includes the State. Every social relationship has its own God-given structure and it is sovereign ... http://ciots.blogsome.com/2008/04/13/pp-10-14/ Summary Dooyeweerd emphasises the human heart as the supra-temporal centre and the creaturely centre.   Adam’s fall affected the whole of the temporal creation.  Jesus came and redeemed all of creation. Pagan philosophy found the supra-temporal centre, not in the heart, but in ... http://ciots.blogsome.com/2008/04/13/pp-5-9-the-aristotelian-view/ * All page numbers are from the 1968 Craig Press edn  Summary Brunner sees the origins of the State not in creation but in the fall.  He holds to a nature-grace dualism.  For him, nature is outside of faith. Elsewhere Dooyeweerd has developed the idea of competing religious ground motives (RGMs).  ... http://ciots.blogsome.com/2008/04/13/pp-1-4/ Here are the extensive headings for the Craig Press edn: •    Emil Brunner rejects the Christian idea of the state •    National Socialism and Fascism and the idea of the Christian state •    The ever new, inspiring idea of the Christian state and the causes of its decline •    Synthesis and ... http://ciots.blogsome.com/2007/04/18/craig-press-headings/ This book started off life as lecture to the Anti-Revolutionaire Jongeren Actie (ARJA) ‘De Christelijke Staatsidee’ (Appledoorn, 3 October, 1936).  It was then published in an expanded form (56 pages) by Libertas, Rotterdam in 1936. In 1968 Craig Press published the first English translation in their University Series, Historical Studies; the ... http://ciots.blogsome.com/2007/01/27/versions/ Welcome to a study guide for Herman Dooyeweerd’s The Christian Idea of the State. It is a working document. If any one has any comments, criticism or suggestions please make them in the comments. http://ciots.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/2/