Die verband tussen skeppingsordinansies en kulturele vormgewing by A. Kuyper

Abstract

<p><strong>The relationship between creational ordinances and cultural formations (as seen by A. Kuyper). </strong>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:</p><p>• Cultural activities should always be seen as free formative action and should not be regarded in a semi-deterministic way.</p><p>• 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.</p><p>• Cultural activities should always be seen against the background of the divine facilitating structure o f the creational ordinances.</p

Nederlandse nasionalisme en Afrikanernasionalisme - ’n vergelyking

“…Die beskouinge van figure soos Kuyper en Stoker, wat albei sterk nasionalistiese strew es gehad het, toon dan ook die invloed van die nie-Christelike denkrigtinge wat in hul tyd dominerend w as en w ord deur sommige skrywers gesien as '11 afwyking van suiwer Calvinisties-Christelike denke oor hierdie sake (vgl. Botha, 1981:44-48;De Klerk, 1989a;Van Wyk, 1994;Van der Walt, 1995).…”