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"De Graaf's renewed insight into Biblical revelation is the unique perspective undergirding his treatment of all the Bible stories. It makes his book a unique presentation of God's revelation of Himself in the covenant and keeps his interpretation of the stories from degenerating into mere moralizing.De Graaf's theocentric preaching, which witnessed to God's sovereignty over the entire life of His people, gripped the hearts of his hearers in his day. The same emphasis, as it comes through in Promise and Deliverance, should be a matter of paramount interest and concern today to evangelicals who are manifesting a growing social awareness and seeking more and more points of contact between Christian beliefs and daily life."-Prof. H. Evan Runner, Calvin College

The Encyclopedia of the Science of Law constitutes the first scholarly domain in which Dooyeweerd tested his radically new understanding of created reality, informed by the biblical basic motive of creation, fall, and redemption. The Science of Law represents the academic discipline in which Dooyeweerd was trained and in which he developed exceptional expertise. Therefore, it must be clear that the publication of this comprehensive and authoritative multi-volume series will contribute significantly to the ever growing legacy of reformational philosophy.From the editor''s Preface.

The attempt to reduce what is truly unique to something else leads to the deification of something or some aspect within creation, normally accompanied by imperialistic "all"-claims such as, "everything is number," "everything is matter," "everything is feeling," "everything is historical" or "everything is interpretation." The distortions thus created inevitably result in insoluble anti-nomies.A Christian approach to scholarship, directed by the central biblical motive of creation, fall and redemption and guided by the theoretical idea that God subjected all of creation to His Law-Word, delimiting and determining the cohering diversity we experience within reality, in principle safe-guards those in the grip of this ultimate commitment and theoretical orientation from absolutizing anything within creation.

Probing the Past is the fifth volume in the series Academic Introductions for Beginners which has so far addressed Philosophy, Politics, Theology, and Psychology. The present volume probes into a series of fundamental questions regarding the formative unfolding of the creation order. Beginning with the question of how to properly characterize history, Ouweneel goes on to ask about the "meaning" of history; can we discern distinctive "patterns" or "epochs" in history; how should we understand God''s "providence" in history; and finally how does "the Kingdom of God" relate to the empirical unfolding of what is commonly called "world history"? "History is never just a recording of the mere facts, apart from the question whether such things exist in the first place. As I have explained in my Wisdom for Thinkers, facts are always facts-for-people; they are always contextually delineated. As far as we can ascertain, the Greek historian Thucydides (c. 460 - c. 395 BC) was the first, other than his somewhat older contemporary Herodotus (c. 484 - 425 BC), who attempted to limit himself to ''the facts.'' However, both the choice and the representation of ''relevant'' facts means that the historian has to develop some ideas, not only about the when, where, and how of history but also about the why." - From the Introduction

The Encyclopedia of the Science of Law constitutes the first scholarly domain in which Dooyeweerd tested his radically new understanding of created reality, informed by the biblical basic motive of creation, fall, and redemption. The Science of Law represents the academic discipline in which Dooyeweerd was trained and in which he developed exceptional expertise. Therefore, it must be clear that the publication of this comprehensive and authoritative multi-volume series will contribute significantly to the ever growing legacy of reformational philosophy.From the editor''s Preface.

┬┐QU├ë ES UNA COSA? ┬┐CU├üL ES LA NATURALEZA DE LA REALIDAD? Hay solamente 26 letras en el alfabeto ingl├⌐s. Pero con esas 26 letras se pueden formar m├ís de un mill├│n de palabras en el lenguaje ingl├⌐s. Solamente hay 88 notas en un teclado com├║n. Ponga esas notas a disposici├│n de m├║sicos entrenados y sus instrumentos, y Bono y Beethoven enviar├ín al alma a volar. Los n├║meros del 0 al 9 son n├║meros enteros. Es todo lo que son ---diez d├¡gitos. No obstante, este pu├▒ado de d├¡gitos permite que la numeraci├│n se vaya al infinito. Los estudiantes de ciencias est├ín ├¡ntimamente familiarizados con la Tabla de los Elementos. Dos partes de hidr├│geno y una de ox├¡geno forman agua. Sin ella cesar├¡a la vida. Son indispensables los fundamentos para adquirir conocimiento. Son las vigas de acero con base en las cuales se construye el entero paradigma del conocimiento. Es as├¡ que todo mundo conoce sus ABCs, sus Do-Re-Mis y sus 1-2-3. Pero ┬┐sab├¡a usted que casi nadie puede resumir, en orden, los diecis├⌐is modos en los que existen todas las cosas (entes) sobre la tierra?  "┬┐QU├ë CONSTITUYE LA UNIDAD Y LA DIVERSIDAD DE LA REALIDAD?" Tiene usted en sus manos una clara explicaci├│n de los diecis├⌐is modos en los que todas las cosas funcionan. Willem (Guillermo) Ouweneel, quien posee doctorados en biolog├¡a, filosof├¡a y teolog├¡a, conduce brillantemente al lector, a trav├⌐s de las que son llamadas las "diecis├⌐is modalidades". Willem escribi├│ este libro sobre el supuesto de que la mayor├¡a de los lectores carecen de familiaridad con lo que constituye la divinamente estructurada unidad y diversidad de la realidad. ┬íDespu├⌐s de leer este libro tendr├í usted un mejor entendimiento y apreciaci├│n de la creaci├│n y el ingenio de su creador! En el proceso encontrar├í tambi├⌐n la respuesta al acertijo que ha eludido a los fil├│sofos desde Plat├│n y Arist├│teles.

The collected essays, lectures, and occasional speeches of Dr. Howard Evan Runner in a new four-volume format. Professor Runner was the leading representative of The Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea, the comprehensive Christian philosophy inaugurated by Herman Dooyeweerd and D. Th. Vollenhoven. Penetrating, prophetic, and profoundly insightful are just some of the terms necessary to describe this invaluable collection from the pen of the foremost North American Reformational scholar. Here you will find inspiration, analysis, and a vigorous call to action across the entire range of human experience, all driven by an unwavering commitment to the Word of God.

Opening the Scriptures is neither a new series of technical commentaries, nor is it a collection of sermons. Instead it offers devout church members a series of popularly accessible primers so that the average churchgoer can easily grasp them.The organization of this series follows the four main sectional divisions of Holy Scripture: the Torah, the many prophetic books, the Psalms and wisdom books, and the New Testament. The authors of Opening the Scriptures show throughout that Holy Scripture is from A to Z the Book of God''s covenant with His people.

Special scientists have two options (but just one choice):(i) either they give an account of the philosophical presuppositions with which they work - in which case they operate with a philosophical view of reality, or (ii) implicitly (and uncritically) proceed from one or another philosophical view of reality - in which case they are the victims of a philosophical view (page 59)."...Precisely because it is impossible to dispense with a philosophy of nature, even present natural science adopts a philosophy of nature. But since it has censored and removed this philosophy at a conscious level, very often reduces itself to using an implicit one, that results from scattered items, is usually unreflected and, practically, is that which was contained in the science of past times but is now insufficient" (Agazzi, 2001:11)."We should have philosophers trained as philosophers, as rigorously as possible, and at the same time audacious philosophers who cross the borders and discover new connections, new fields, not only interdisciplinary researches but themes that are not even interdisciplinary" (Derrida, 1997:7)."Philosophical reflection must begin with the analysis of concepts we use; for these provide the frame of reference and determine the direction our inquiry will take" (Von Bertalanffy, 1966:116).

Faith, Life and Theology presents a significantly innovative approach to the broad spectrum of questions normally attached to the issue of "What Is It That Constitutes The Nature Of Theology." Rather than pursuing the highly speculative approaches endemic to Scholasticism, or the biblicistic emphasis on the Scriptures as a textbook on theology, Vander Stelt focuses on what is actually accessible to real, empirical, human study: namely, the phenomenon of faith as it comes to expression in human life in every age, in response to God''s self-disclosure to humankind in Word revelation and in Christ.