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H.G. Stoker's Study of Conscience, Its Reception, and Its Significance as a Work in the Reformed Tradition

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H.G. Stoker's Study of Conscience, Its Reception, and Its Significance as a Work in the Reformed Tradition

[Article]

Philip Blosser

Leiden

Brill

I begin by summarizing Stoker's study of conscience in Das Gewissen. Then I contrast the initial acclaim it received from well-known phenomenologists with its subsequent undeserved neglect. One reason for the neglect, I surmise, is the waning of general interest in phenomenological approaches. Other reasons include Stoker's relative isolation in South Africa, declining interest in Christian approaches to philosophy, and Calvinist concerns about the influence of Bavinck's scholasticism and Scheler's phenomenological method on Stoker. I argue that none of these reasons justifies the present neglect of Stoker's magisterial work and its seminal insights. I begin by summarizing Stoker's study of conscience in Das Gewissen. Then I contrast the initial acclaim it received from well-known phenomenologists with its subsequent undeserved neglect. One reason for the neglect, I surmise, is the waning of general interest in phenomenological approaches. Other reasons include Stoker's relative isolation in South Africa, declining interest in Christian approaches to philosophy, and Calvinist concerns about the influence of Bavinck's scholasticism and Scheler's phenomenological method on Stoker. I argue that none of these reasons justifies the present neglect of Stoker's magisterial work and its seminal insights.

2018

143-163

Journal of Reformed Theology

12/2

1569-7312

Bavinck

conscience

Dooyeweerd

phenomenology

scholasticism

Stoker

Philip Blosser

10.1163/15697312-01202011

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