H.G.Stoker’s Study of Conscience, Its Reception, and Its Significance as a Work in the Reformed Tradition
I begin by summarizing Stoker’s study of conscience in Das Gewissen. Then I contrast the initial acclaim it received from well-known phenomenologists with its subsequent undeserved neglect. One reason for the neglect, I surmise, is the waning of general interest in phenomenological approaches. Other...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Journal of reformed theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 143-163 |
RelBib Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church VA Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
Bavinck
Conscience
Dooyeweerd
phenomenology
scholasticism
Stoker
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Summary: | I begin by summarizing Stoker’s study of conscience in Das Gewissen. Then I contrast the initial acclaim it received from well-known phenomenologists with its subsequent undeserved neglect. One reason for the neglect, I surmise, is the waning of general interest in phenomenological approaches. Other reasons include Stoker’s relative isolation in South Africa, declining interest in Christian approaches to philosophy, and Calvinist concerns about the influence of Bavinck’s scholasticism and Scheler’s phenomenological method on Stoker. I argue that none of these reasons justifies the present neglect of Stoker’s magisterial work and its seminal insights. |
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ISSN: | 1569-7312 |
Contains: | In: Journal of reformed theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01202011 |