A Ground Motive Symposium on Lambert Zuidervaart’s “Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation”

To celebrate the forthcoming MQUP publication Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation: Essays in Reformational Philosophy by Lambert Zuidervaart, the Institute for Christian Studies (ICS) will be hosting a blog symposium on their blog Ground Motive.

Over the next few months Ground Motive will be inviting a wide variety of authors to respond to the book essay by essay. At the end of the symposium, Dr. Zuidervaart will provide a response to the event as a whole. Ground Motive invites readers to follow along and participate in this exciting conversation through the comment sections of each post.

Responses to each essay will be posted every Monday starting January 25.

View the first blog symposium post:  “A living Philiosophical Tradition of Redemptive Hope – Doug Blomberg (January 25, 2016)

Read more about project and follow the posts on Ground Motive

Overview

Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation: Essays in Reformational Philosophy

A lucid introduction to a living philosophical tradition and a creative contribution to change-oriented scholarship.

Reformational philosophy rests on the ideas of nineteenth-century educator, church leader, and politician Abraham
Kuyper, and it emerged in the early twentieth century among Reformed Protestant thinkers in the Netherlands. Combining comprehensive criticisms of Western philosophy with robust proposals for a just society, it calls on members of religious communities to transform harmful cultural practices, social institutions, and societal structures.

Well known for his work in aesthetics and critical theory, Lambert Zuidervaart is a leading figure in contemporary reformational philosophy. In Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation – the first of two volumes of original essays from the past thirty years – he forges new interpretations of art, politics, rationality, religion, science, and truth. In dialogue with modern and contemporary philosophers, among them Immanuel Kant, G.F.H Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Jürgen Habermas, and reformational thinkers such as Herman Dooyeweerd, Dirk Vollenhoven, and Hendrik Hart, Zuidervaart explains and expands on reformational philosophy’s central themes. This interdisciplinary collection offers a normative critique of societal evil, a holistic and pluralist conception of truth, and a call for both religion and science to serve the common good.

Illustrating the connections between philosophy, religion, and culture, and daring to think outside the box, Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation gives a voice to hope in a climate of despair.