1967 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 93

ESSAY CONCERNING CHRISTIAN UNDERSTANDING

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Church" which took shape already in the early days of the Free University and which before and during World War II, churchly speaking, led to disastrous results. Nowadays, there is a great and steady change in climate going on, which goes together with a tendency to shake off the fetters of scholasticism. We propose to discuss several aspects of this matter shortly, adding a number of proposals which are intended to constitute part of a possible blueprint for the future. Scholasticisms exeunt At the Free University there are a few outstanding attempts made to come to grips with the general problem relating Biblical faith and science. The first grandiose attempt which has also found international response, is the work of Herman Dooyeweerd. Many of those who may call themselves his pupil, will agree on the fact that it is not so much certain details of his penetrating philosophy, as his liberating views on the worldwide scope of the task of a Christian, which has influenced them. His work on the communal religious motives, at work in western thought, have brought about the possibility, even for people working in abstract sciences like mathematics,^) of looking at the foundations of science from a Scriptural point of view. His approach is unscholastical s) in the sense that a worker in some field, interested in the foundations of his science, does not have to make a comparative study of Scriptures and science. For such an approach would imply that the Scriptures give scientific information, which they are considered not to give. On the contrary, a such worker tracks down, historically and systematically, the fundamental philosophical principles of the existing foundational theories regarding his field. He may then discover that those principles stem from an attitude towards the world and towards science, which in one way or another, postulates the autonomy of human thought. Arriving at this point the investigator, equiped with the newly obtained knowledge and with the information from his special science, shall have to build up his own foundation theory, trying to avoid the pitfalls and antinomies which are the stumbling-block of every foundation theory. He then may be helped by Dooyeweerd's theory on the „modes of being", which is a theoretical account of the modal structure of the

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