Personal and Intellectual Biographies
Books:
Henderson, R.D. 1994: Illuminating Law: The Construction of Herman Dooyeweerd’s Thought 1918-1928.
Details: Ph.D. thesis, supervised by Professor Geertsema, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Comment: Charts the progress of Dooyeweerd’s early thought up until 1928, when he began to publish work which contains elements that characterise his mature philosophy.
Strauss, D.F.M. 2004: 'Intellectual influences upon the reformational thought of Dooyeweerd'.
Details: Philosophia Reformata, 69, pp. 151-81. Available online here.
Comment: Written in response to J.G. Friesen’s claim that all the basics of Dooyeweerd’s thought can be found in the thought of Franz von Baader, 1765-1841. (See Friesen, 2003: ‘The mystical Dooyeweerd. The relation of his thought to Franz von Baader’, Ars disputandi, 3, available here).
Witte, John, Jr. 1994: 'The Development of Herman Dooyeweerd's Concept of Rights'.
Details: Published in Political Theory and Christian Vision: Essays in Memory of Bernard Zylstra, edited by Jonathan Chaplin and Paul Marshall, Lanham: University Press of America, 1994, pp. 27-55.
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Wolters, Albert, M. 1985: 'The Intellectual Milieu of Herman Dooyeweerd'.
Details: Published in The Legacy of Herman Dooyeweerd, edited by C.T. McIntire, New York: University Press of America, 1985, pp. 1-19.
Comment: Wolters argues that Dooyeweerd philosophically elaborates a neo-Calvinist worldview using the conceptual tools of neo-Kantianism and phenomenology.
Kraay, J. 1980: 'Successive conceptions in the development of the Christian philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd'.
Details: Philosophia Reformata, 45, pp. 1-46.
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Kraay, J. 1979: 'Successive conceptions in the development of the Christian philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd'.
Details: Philosophia Reformata, 44, pp. 137-49.
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