http://rowc.blogsome.com Study Guide to Dooyeweerd's Roots of Western Culture Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:31:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Historical formation requires power; formation requires struggle. Formation will inevitably clash with tradition. Tradition: • is the power of conservation• shapes us• is a communal power binding the past to the present• has deep dimensions• without it culture cannot exist and historical development impossible• its power is grounded in the creation order• is not a norm The struggle between ... http://rowc.blogsome.com/2007/02/11/p33/ The nucleus of the historical aspect is the cultural way of being. The formation of power is crucial. Without it a discovery or invention cannot be historically formative. For example, Leonardo da Vinci’s aircraft design lacked historical power formation; it remained private and had no impact on ... http://rowc.blogsome.com/2007/02/04/p32/ The next chapter ‘History, historicism, and norms’ focuses on just that. For Dooyeweerd historicism is ‘ the fatal illness of our “dynamic” times. Dynamic is in “scare quotes” because it is a catch phrase of the historicist. Historicism claims that all things are relative and historically determined; change is everything, certainty is ... http://rowc.blogsome.com/2007/01/21/p31/ Kuyper had grasped that sphere sovereignty is a creational principle. And yet he still confused it with historically founded autonomy of parts in the body politic when he placed municipalities and provinces in his list of life spheres. Differentiated life spheres such as the family, the school and economic enterprise ... http://rowc.blogsome.com/2007/01/20/p30/ Sphere sovereignty is common property in the Netherlands and it has become divorced from a Christian ground motive. In this section, Dooyeweerd looks at how this misunderstanding has arisen. The nineteenth century historical school in Germany influenced the antirevolutionary political thought. The founders’ thought, despite being Lutheran, ... http://rowc.blogsome.com/2006/12/30/p29/ summary Dooyeweerd again uses the image of a refracting prism. Each of the aspects are investigated by modern special sciences – each science considers reality in only one aspect. To investigate these sciences without the light of the knowledge of God means that one ... http://rowc.blogsome.com/2006/12/24/p28/ Advert for the Wedge version of Roots taken from The Reformed Journal April 1980:   http://rowc.blogsome.com/2006/12/23/roots-advert-1980/ summary Dooyeweerd now turns to the second religious ground motive (RGM), the biblical, creation, fall and redemption. the creation motive In its integrality (all things are created) and radicality (it penetrates to the root of created reality) the biblical ground motive stands in antithesis to the Greek RGM. ... http://rowc.blogsome.com/2006/11/25/p24/ summary With Alexander the Great Greek culture became world culture. Alexander became worshipped as a god – and this became the foundation of the religious imperium idea. This imperium idea was well established when Alexander died and his empire eventually became Roman.As the Roman empire expanded the Greek religious ... http://rowc.blogsome.com/2006/11/19/p23/ Summary Dooyeweerd distinguishes four religious ground motives (RGMs): • form/ matter• creation, fall and redemption• nature/ grace• nature/ freedom In this section he expounds the origins of the first of these the form/ matter motive. the matter motive The Greek form/ matter RGM is considered first as it operates both in the nature/ grace and ... http://rowc.blogsome.com/2006/11/18/p22/