Flashpoints in Dooyeweerd's philosophy

• Reality cannot ultimately be explained immanently - from within empirical reality. Scientists and scholars need to view the things of the created world transcendentally - in light of the revelation about the Creator who gave them being and determined their purpose, sense and meaning.

• Christian scientific work must break with the age-old synthesis of pagan antiquity and biblical revelation.
• The antithesis between good and evil is not due to a division among structures of creation but to a contrast between spiritual directions in which life is lived and the things of creation are shaped and used.
• Theoretical thought is necessarily directed by a prior ultimate commitment and relies on a comprehensive worldview that reflects the diversity, unity and origin of all reality.
• Scholars, to be effective, need to address the history and philosophical underpinnings of their disciplines.
• The calling of Christian scholarship is to work at an inner reformation of all branches of learning.