Herman Dooyeweerd

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Christian philosopher Dutch person Reformational philosopher philosopher

Herman Dooyeweerd was a Dutch Christian philosopher best known for developing a comprehensive Reformational philosophy that analyzes reality through multiple irreducible modal aspects.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Christian philosopher → Dutch person → Reformational philosopher → philosopher →
birthDate	1894-10-07 →
birthPlace	Amsterdam, Netherlands →
citizenship	Netherlands →
coreConcept	creation–fall–redemption ground-motive → law-spheres (wetskringen) → religious ground-motive → sphere sovereignty (in philosophical form) →
deathDate	1977-02-12 →
deathPlace	Amsterdam, Netherlands →
denomination	Reformed →
developed	Reformational critique of humanism → multi-aspectual ontology of reality →
educatedAt	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam →
employer	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam →
era	20th-century philosophy →
familyName	Dooyeweerd →
fieldOfWork	Christian philosophy → legal philosophy → philosophy → social philosophy →
fullName	Herman Dooyeweerd →
givenName	Herman →
influenced	Alvin Plantinga → D. H. Th. Vollenhoven → Nicholas Wolterstorff → Reformational philosophers → Reformational worldview thinking →
influencedBy	Abraham Kuyper → Calvinism → Dutch Neo-Calvinism → Herman Bavinck →
knownFor	Reformational philosophy → critique of theoretical thought → philosophy of the cosmonomic idea → theory of modal aspects →
languageOfWorkOrName	Dutch → English →
movement	Neo-Calvinism → Reformational philosophy →
notableWork	A New Critique of Theoretical Thought → De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee → In the Twilight of Western Thought → Roots of Western Culture →
positionHeld	Professor of legal philosophy → Professor of philosophy →
religion	Christianity →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Herman Dooyeweerd ("Dooyeweerd") →	familyName
Herman Dooyeweerd →	fullName
Abraham Kuyper →	influenced