In the Phrygian Mode

Robert Sweetman, Ph.D., is the H. Evan Runner Chair in the History of Philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies. He is also an associate member of the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Centre for the Study of Religion of the University of Toronto.

This volume... has emerged from a small scholarly conference... on the relationship between Christianity and Greco-Roman civilization, above all, that civilization's characteristic patterns of philosophical thought... The field of investigation [is] the neo-Calvinist current within Dutch protestantism and the elaboration in the 1920s and 1930s of "Calvinistic" philosophy as one of its most distinctive effects... this "parish tale" has more to recommend it than might appear at first blush. For there is a good argument to be made why such a thoroughly local study can benefit a much broader segment of contemporary Protestantism.

• Part 1 Prologue: Reformational Philosophy and Protestant OrthodoxyChapter 2 Neo-Calvinism, Antiquity, and the Lamentations of Reformational Philosophy: A General OverviewChapter 3 Groen van Prinsterer's Appreciation of Classical AntiquityChapter 4 Woltjer on Classical AntiquityChapter 5 Alexander SizooChapter 6 Greek Ontology and Biblical Cosmology: An Unbridgeable GapChapter 7 Vollenhoven and Philosophy in Early Classical Antiquity: A Critical ReviewChapter 8 Popma and Lucian: A Critique of the Christian FathersChapter 9 Philo in the Reformational TraditionChapter 10 Vollenhoven's and Dooyeweerd's Appropriation of Greek PhilosophyChapter 11 Antiquity Transumed and the Reformational Tradition: Which Antiquity is Transumed, How and WhyChapter 12 Epilogue: Antiquity and the Future of Reformational TearsPart 13 Name IndexPart 14 Subject IndexPart 15 About the Authors