Who is Herman Dooyeweerd?

  • Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977) was a graduate of the Free University of Amsterdam and from 1927 to 1965 he taught in its faculty of law.
  • He was a member of the Royal Academy of Science, the Association for the Philosophy of Law, and a founding member of the Association for Calvinist Philosophy and its journal, Philosophia Reformata, which he served for over forty years as editor-in-chief.
  • Dooyeweerd wholeheartedly subscribed to the emphasis on the lordship of Jesus Christ over all areas of life, in line with the teaching of Abraham Kuyper.