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A Christian Theory of Social Institutions
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An English translation of Dutch jurist and philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd’s lectures on social theory at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1937, and a sturdy philosophical defense of the neo-Calvinist idea of sphere sovereignty introduced in the prior generation by Abraham Kuyper. The volume further provides a pithy introduction to Dooyeweerd’s more complex theories of law, politics, and society set out in later books like his Encyclopedia of Legal Science, A New Critique of Theoretical Thought, and Reformation and Scholasticism. A long editorial introduction situates this work within Dooyeweerd’s system of thought.
ISBN
9780888150554
Publication Date
1986
Publisher
Paideia Press
Keywords
Law and Religion, Law and Christianity