The Amsterdam Philosophy

A short critique of the Amsterdam philosophy, the Reformational school associated with Herman Dooyeweerd and D. H. Th. Vollenhoven and, in North America, with the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. It was published by Harmony Press of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, in 1972, early in Frame's teaching career at Westminster Theological Seminary, and belongs to his writing of the early 1970s on the movement's view of the Word of God. After an account of the movement's background and appeal, it examines its treatment of common sense and science, time, the modal spheres, the self and God, law, and Scripture and the Word of God, then its bearing on philosophy, education, church and society, evangelism and apologetics, and ends with a bibliography of works for and against the movement. Frame has made the text free to read on the Frame-Poythress website.