The Future of Creation Order: Vol. 2, Order Among Humans: Humanities, Social Science and Normative Practices
About this ebook
This series reflects the role that the branch of Christian philosophy called ‘Reformational’ philosophy plays in the discussion on the status of laws of nature. Ever since its inception, almost a century ago, the concepts of order and law (principle, structure) have been at the heart of this philosophy. One way to characterise this tradition is as a philosophy of creation order. Firmly rejecting both scholastic metaphysics and Deism, Reformational philosophers have maintained the notion of law as ‘holding’ for reality. Questions have arisen about the nature of such law: is it a religious or philosophical concept; does law just mean ‘orderliness’? How does it relate to laws of nature? Have they always existed or do they ‘emerge’ during the process of evolution?
About the author
Govert Buijs PhD holds the Kuyper Chair for political philosophy in relation to religion at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, VU University, Amsterdam. Next to this he holds the Goldschmeding Research Chair on 'economics and civil society'. At the Erasmus University Rotterdam he lectures in Christian Philosophy. He studied political science, philosophy and theology at various institution in the Netherlands and Canada. His main interests are religion in the public square, religion in relation to civil society and the relation between morality and economics. In 2003 he won the Savornin Lohman Price for political and social theory in relation to Christianity. He is co-founder of Èthos, a recently founded Dutch platform for research and public debate on societal developments.
Annette Mosher PhD is currently employed at VU University Amsterdam as Assistant Professor of Ethics within the Faculty of Theology where she has served since 2005. With fourteen years experience in the field of education, Annette specializes in the interaction of nature religions with environmental ethics, as well as religion and issues of justice, and ecofeminism.
