Howard Evan Runner (January 28,1916 –March 14,2002) was professor of philosophy at Calvin College from 1951 until his retirement in 1981.
Runner was born in Oxford,Pennsylvania and graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois,Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia (where he was deeply influenced by the thought of Professor Cornelius Van Til),and The Free University of Amsterdam. It was at the Free University that he was taught by Herman Dooyeweerd and D. H. Th. Vollenhoven,whose ideas relating to the construction of a whole new way of doing philosophy Christianly from a biblical basis radically changed the direction of his life,and whose teachings he later brought to North America. Runner's dissertation applied D. H. Th. Vollenhoven's problem-historical method to Aristotle's Physics. Runner had also studied at Harvard University,where he was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows,and at the University of Pennsylvania,where he engaged in intensive studies in Greek and philosophy.
Early in his career at Calvin College he organized the Groen van Prinsterer Society (known popularly as the 'Groen Club'),which brought him together with students specifically interested in discussing issues relating Christianity to culture,and the necessity Runner saw of Christian cultural organization. He was also greatly influential in the setting up of the Association for Reformed Scientific Studies (ARSS) in 1956 –which later became the Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship (AACS). The AACS eventually became the Institute for Christian Studies (ICS). The ICS's first senior members were all students of Runner. His influence extended to the UK,through the work of Elaine Storkey and Richard Russell who had studied with him in Canada,and through David and Ruth Hanson,who set up the West Yorkshire School of Christian Studies.
Currently,both Redeemer University College (RUC) and the ICS have chairs in Runner's honor. RUC has the H. Evan Runner Chair in Philosophy,currently held by Craig Bartholomew,while the ICS has the H. Evan Runner Chair in the History of Philosophy,currently held by Robert Sweetman.
Herman Dooyeweerd was a professor of law and jurisprudence at the Vrije Universiteit,Amsterdam from 1926 to 1965. He was also a philosopher and principal founder of Reformational philosophy with Dirk Vollenhoven,a significant development within the Neocalvinist school of thought. Dooyeweerd made several contributions to philosophy and other academic disciplines concerning the nature of diversity and coherence in everyday experience,the transcendental conditions for theoretical thought,the relationship between religion,philosophy,and scientific theory,and an understanding of meaning,being,time and self.
Christian worldview refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs through which a Christian individual,group or culture interprets the world and interacts with it. Various denominations of Christianity have differing worldviews on some issues based on biblical interpretation,but many thematic elements are commonly agreed-upon within the Christian worldview.
Reformational philosophy of society is a neo-Calvinistic movement pioneered by Herman Dooyeweerd and D. H. Th. Vollenhoven that seeks to develop philosophical thought in a Reformed Christian direction. It is related to the idea of a political community and can be traced back to 16th-century monarchomach thinking. This school of thought had a particular influence in the Netherlands and contributed to the country being the first modern nation state. Freedom of Conscience and the fight against tyranny have a special place in the Reformational philosophy of society.
Dirk Hendrik Theodoor Vollenhoven was a Dutch philosopher.
Klaas Johan Popma (1903–1986) was one of the second generation of reformational philosophers arising from the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam,after the first generation of Herman Dooyeweerd and D. H. Th. Vollenhoven. Other second generationers were:Hendrik Van Riessen,S. U. Zuidema and J. P. A. Mekkes.
Sytse Ulbe Zuidema was one of the second generation of reformational philosophers arising from the Free University of Amsterdam,after the first generation of Herman Dooyeweerd and D. H. Th. Vollenhoven. Other second generationers were:Hendrik Van Riessen,K. J. Popma and J. P. A. Mekkes.
Hendrik Van Riessen was one of the second generation of reformational philosophers arising from the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam,after the first generation of Herman Dooyeweerd and D. H. Th. Vollenhoven. Other second generationers were:K. J. Popma,S. U. Zuidema and J. P. A. Mekkes.
Jan Woltjer was a professor of Classical languages and literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He served as rector magnificus of that institution five times.
Jacob Klapwijk was a Dutch philosopher,and Emeritus Professor of Modern and Systematic Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit,Amsterdam,known for his work on Ernst Troeltsch and historicism,Reformational thinking,the transformational task of Christian philosophy,and the theory of emergent evolution.
Hendrik Hart,often known as Henk Hart,was a Dutch-Canadian philosopher based in Toronto.
Calvin George Seerveld received a BA from Calvin College in 1952 and an MA in English literature and classics from the University of Michigan in 1953. He then went on to study under D. H. Th. Vollenhoven at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam,where his doctoral dissertation dealt with Croce's aesthetics. It was supervised by Vollenhoven and Carlo Antoni. He then taught philosophy and German at Trinity Christian College and went on to teach philosophical aesthetics at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto.
Johann Heinrich (Harry) Diemer was born in Dronrijp,the Netherlands. His father was the reverend N. Diemer,who served at the Reformed Church at Vijfhuizen. He studied biology at the University of Leiden. He studied the ideas of Abraham Kuyper,Herman Bavinck and Jan Woltjer,and soon became an adherent of Herman Dooyeweerd and D. H. Th. Vollenhoven's Reformational philosophy.
Alan Cameron is a Senior Lecturer on the Faculty of Law of Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington,New Zealand. His academic speciality is accountancy law. Cameron is also a Juridical scholar who reflects on the nature of law in relation to the distinctives of the New Zealand legal tradition and the wider legal developments around the world. He is a critical proponent of the Juridical philosophy developed by past professor of law at the Free University in Amsterdam,the Netherlands,Dr Herman Dooyeweerd.
Dr. Anthony "Tony" Tol served in the Documentation Center of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,the Netherlands,as an archivist for the collection of materials assembled there for 19th Century historical developments in that country. Tol did his undergraduate studies at Calvin College,Grand Rapids,Michigan,and then received his PhD in philosophy under D. H. Th. Vollenhoven,professor of philosophy at Vrije Universiteit. Tony Tol became an active proponent of a method for study of the history of Western philosophy and its systematics,the method which Vollenhoven had empirically built-up by studying 16,000 individual philosophers over the course of theoretical thought in the West. Called by Vollenhoven the Consequent Problem-Historical Method (CPHM),the approach proved fascinating to Tol,who became one of its prime users in his own philosophical research and a theorizer of the development of the philosophical movement which had given it birth. The movement gave rise to the school of thought known as Reformational philosophy,founded by Vollenhoven and his colleague at Vrije Universiteit,professor of law Herman Dooyeweerd.
D. F. M. Strauss is a South-African philosopher and the world's leading expert on the theory of modal aspects,one of the core features of the thought of the Dutch philosopher,Herman Dooyeweerd,and the movement for Reformational philosophy.
Albert Marten "Al" Wolters is an emeritus professor of religion at Redeemer University in Ancaster,Ontario. He has been described as a "towering figure" in the Kuyperian neo-Calvinist pantheon.
Neo-Calvinism,a form of Dutch Calvinism,is a theological movement initiated by the theologian and former Dutch prime minister Abraham Kuyper. James Bratt has identified a number of different types of Dutch Calvinism:The Seceders,split into the Reformed Church "West" and the Confessionalists;the neo-Calvinists;and the Positives and the Antithetical Calvinists. The Seceders were largely infralapsarian and the neo-Calvinists usually supralapsarian.
Hendrik Gerhardus Stoker (1899–1993),born in Johannesburg,South Africa,was a leading Calvinist philosopher who taught at Potchefstroom. He studied there and the University of Cologne,and he completed his doctoral dissertation on "Nature and the forms of conscience" under Max Scheler.
Sensus divinitatis,also referred to as sensus deitatis or semen religionis,is a term first employed by French Protestant reformer John Calvin to describe a postulated human sense. Instead of knowledge of the environment,the sensus divinitatis is alleged to give humans a knowledge of God.
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