The Association for Reformational Philosophy was once called the Association for Calvinist Philosophy. Incorporated in the Netherlands where the majority of its members are still located, the official Dutch names involved in the change are respectively that from Veregining voor Calvinistsche Wijsbegeerte to the Veregining voor Reformatorische Wijsbegeerte (VRW). The Association was formed as a result of the interest that rallied into a movement for Christian philosophy subsequent to the publication in 1933 of D. H. Th. Vollenhoven's ''Het Calvinisme en het Reformatie der Wijsbegeerte'' (''Calvinism and the Reformation of Philosophy''), and the additional interest generated by the 1935-36 publication of Herman Dooyeweerd's three volumes ''Der Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee'' (''The Philosophy of the Law-Idea'', often abbreviated "WdW"). The change of name represents a long-gathering process of clarification, under the chairmanship of Vollenhoven, professor of philosophy at the Free University in Amesterdam, who remained in office for many years; and articulated by Dooyeweerd, professor of jurisprudence at the same university, in terms of a desire to function as a "reformational-ecumenical" movement in philosophy alongside other Christian ecumenically-concerned philosophies like Catholic Neo-Thomism represented today by the thought of Bernard Lonergan see Lonergan-Reformational dialogue. Where the philosophy of Lonergan has ties more to that of St Thomas Aquinas, Reformational philosophy finds itself more aligned to that of St Augustine, following both Luther and Calvin in that matter of antecedents. That is, the self-understanding of the now-VRW group had become clarified as a "reformational-ecumenical" Christian project for a distinctively and transformationally Christian philosophy in dialogue with related projects in the philosophical foundations of the sciences, and concerned with an integrative encyclopedia of the sciences. The VRW maintains a website in Dutch and English, and numbers about 600 members today. Early on, a large group of the Association formed a separate organization to initiate the Foundation for External Professorial Chairs for Calvinist Philosophy at state universities of the Netherlands (Stichting voor Bijzondere Leerstoelen voor Calvinistische Wijsbegeerte). Today, there are seven such chairs occupied by VRW-related professors at the following Dutch universities (in parentheses) as a matter of Dutch national law for universities: M. de Vries (Delft) M. J. Verkerk (Eindhoven) Egbert Schuurman (Wageningen) Henk G. Geertsema (Groningen, Utrecht (city)) Gerrit Glas (Leiden) Jan Hoogland (Twente) Roel Kuiper (Rotterdam) The presence of these externally-mandated Chairs in Philosophy in state-university philosophy faculties, can be made a bit more poignant by an example of what the VRW movement initiated when it was still the Vereniging voor Calvinistische Wijsbegeerte. Today the oldest and perhaps still most prestigious university in the Nertherlands, the University of Leiden, has in its Philosophy Faculty eleven regular professorial chairs, and thanks to the law fought for and to the continuing energy of the Foundation for External Chairs sponsored by the Vollenhoven-led VCW/VRW, there are additionally today at Leiden University, four external chairs: one each for Reformational philosophy, for philosophy in relation to the Catholic life-way, for the Metaphysics of Theosophy, and for the philosophical anthropology and principles of Humanism. == External links == *[http://come.to/reform.philos/ Association for Reformational Philosophy Dutch and English web site] Christian philosophy
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The Association for Reformational Philosophy was once called the Association for Calvinist Philosophy. Incorporated in the Netherlands where the majority of its members are still located, the official Dutch names involved in the change are respectively that from Veregining voor Calvinistsche Wijsbegeerte to the Veregining voor Reformatorische Wijsbegeerte (VRW). The Association was formed as a result of the interest that rallied into a movement for Christian philosophy subsequent to the publication in 1933 of D. H. Th. Vollenhoven's ''Het Calvinisme en het Reformatie der Wijsbegeerte'' (''Calvinism and the Reformation of Philosophy''), and the additional interest generated by the 1935-36 publication of Herman Dooyeweerd's three volumes ''Der Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee'' (''The Philosophy of the Law-Idea'', often abbreviated "WdW"). The change of name represents a long-gathering process of clarification, under the chairmanship of Vollenhoven, professor of philosophy at the Free University in Amesterdam, who remained in office for many years; and articulated by Dooyeweerd, professor of jurisprudence at the same university, in terms of a desire to function as a "reformational-ecumenical" movement in philosophy alongside other Christian ecumenically-concerned philosophies like Catholic Neo-Thomism represented today by the thought of Bernard Lonergan see Lonergan-Reformational dialogue. Where the philosophy of Lonergan has ties more to that of St Thomas Aquinas, Reformational philosophy finds itself more aligned to that of St Augustine, following both Luther and Calvin in that matter of antecedents. That is, the self-understanding of the now-VRW group had become clarified as a "reformational-ecumenical" Christian project for a distinctively and transformationally Christian philosophy in dialogue with related projects in the philosophical foundations of the sciences, and concerned with an integrative encyclopedia of the sciences. The VRW maintains a website in Dutch and English, and numbers about 600 members today. Early on, a large group of the Association formed a separate organization to initiate the Foundation for External Professorial Chairs for Calvinist Philosophy at state universities of the Netherlands (Stichting voor Bijzondere Leerstoelen voor Calvinistische Wijsbegeerte). Today, there are seven such chairs occupied by VRW-related professors at the following Dutch universities (in parentheses) as a matter of Dutch national law for universities: M. de Vries (Delft) M. J. Verkerk (Eindhoven) Egbert Schuurman (Wageningen) Henk G. Geertsema (Groningen, Utrecht (city)) Gerrit Glas (Leiden) Jan Hoogland (Twente) Roel Kuiper (Rotterdam) The presence of these externally-mandated Chairs in Philosophy in state-university philosophy faculties, can be made a bit more poignant by an example of what the VRW movement initiated when it was still the Vereniging voor Calvinistische Wijsbegeerte. Today the oldest and perhaps still most prestigious university in the Nertherlands, the University of Leiden, has in its Philosophy Faculty eleven regular professorial chairs, and thanks to the law fought for and to the continuing energy of the Foundation for External Chairs sponsored by the Vollenhoven-led VCW/VRW, there are additionally today at Leiden University, four external chairs: one each for Reformational philosophy, for philosophy in relation to the Catholic life-way, for the Metaphysics of Theosophy, and for the philosophical anthropology and principles of Humanism. == External links == *[http://come.to/reform.philos/ Association for Reformational Philosophy Dutch and English web site] Christian philosophy
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