RT Article
T1 New Research on Groen van Prinsterer and the Idea of Sphere Sovereignty
JF Philosophia reformata
VO 84
IS 1
SP 1
OP 30
A1 Friesen, J. Glenn
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1683885228
AB Historians of Reformational philosophy often claim that Abraham Kuyper obtained the idea of sovereignty in its own sphere from Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer. But very little historical research has been done on Groen's sources for and development of this idea. The first use of the Dutch phrase souvereiniteit in eigen sfeer is much earlier than previously thought; it was used in 1853 by J.I. Doedes, an associate of the "ethical theologian" Daniël Chantepie de la Saussaye. Groen became aware of the ideas of Franz von Baader through journals founded by them, and by reading and corresponding with them and others, such as J.H. Gunning Jr. and Friedrich Fabri. Groen himself owned some of Baader's books. He also relied strongly on the work of the jurist Friedrich Julius Stahl, who was 37 years younger than Baader but taught for a while at the same Munich university and shared Baader's anti-revolutionary ideas.
K1 Abraham Kuyper
K1 Franz von Baader
K1 Friedrich Julius Stahl
K1 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer
K1 Herman Dooyeweerd
K1 anti-revolutionary
K1 church, state and school
K1 sphere sovereignty (souvereiniteit in eigen kring)
DO 10.1163/23528230-08302001