This booklet is a response to the appearance in Spanish of John Frame’s fifty-year-old criticism of Reformational Philosophy. Frame’s work was practical. He was responding to a campaign by the adherents of Reformational Philosophy against Reformed theology (as Scholastic) and against Christian schools (as violating the principles of modal separation of Reformational Philosophy).
Frame, did not make clear that he was responding to two different Reformational Philosophies, that of Vollenhoven/Stoker and that Dooyeweerd. Both were equally old but the Vollenhoven stream had achieved wide international and institutional representation. Frame also mixed up his account of these philosophies by treating the diverse sources as though they had the same views. Frame also has the unfortunate practice trying to make sense of these philosophies by speculating about what they really meant and then replying to his own speculative invention.
The reply in this book takes advantage of Frame’s mistakes, pointing out Frame’s misinterpretations. But the author does the same thing, inventing views he attributes to Frame, such as Platonism, and attacking those. As well, he ignores the secondary place of Dooyeweerdianism in a larger movement, insisting the Frame should only have responded to Dooyeweerd. In addition, the author ignores the context of Frame’s book, as a practical help to those groups under attack by the weird new philosophy that claimed to be Reformed, but was new and unfamiliar. The author ignores, as well, the very bad effects that the Reformational philosophy was creating. Interestingly, the second essay in the book to which he is responding deals with those effects, although not very competently, but it is not addressed at all.
Finally, things have not stood still in the last fifty years. The research by J. Gleen Friesen (Neo-Calvinism and Christian Theosophy) makes clear the theosophical nature of Dooyeweerd’s thought, and how it is more distant from orthodox Reformed theology than that of Vollenhoven. The current push by the Dooyeweerdians, which this book represents, prefers to ignore all that.
Now available on Amazon is a lengthy discussion of the whole controversy (Time and Worldmaking: John Frame and the Reformational Philosophies). It is also in Spanish as Tiempo y el Mundo: John Frame y las Filosofías Reformacionales.
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