RT Article
T1 Die verband tussen skeppingsordinansies en kulturele vormgewing by A. Kuyper
JF Koers
VO 60
IS 2
SP 237
OP 258
A1 Walt, M. F. van der
LA Undetermined
YR 1995
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1936633620
AB The relationship between creational ordinances and cultural formations (as seen by A. Kuyper). The central statement of this article is that Abraham Kuyper does not make a clear enough distinction between divine normative creational ordinances on the one side, and human cultural structures on the other. Kuyper defines this relationship in a semi-deterministic (organistic) way. The reason for this semi-deterministic approach can be found in Kuyper’s neo-Platonic logos-speculation and his Romantic-Idealistic use of the organism metaphor. Such a semi-deterministic approach can easily lead to cultural conservatism (for example political conservatism). The proposed answer to Kuyper’s problematic approach implies the following:• Cultural activities should always be seen as free formative action and should not be regarded in a semi-deterministic way.• Cultural activities should always be seen as being partially the result o f the brokenness o f man. Consequently, our knowledge o f divine ordinances as reflected in these activities will always be provisional.• Cultural activities should always be seen against the background of the divine facilitating structure o f the creational ordinances.
DO 10.4102/koers.v60i2.630