The Philosophy of Revelation
Language: English
Published by Refcon Press, 2026
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- Title
- The Philosophy of Revelation
- Author
- Hoedemaker, Philippus Jacobus
- Publisher
- Refcon Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1954504063
- ISBN 13
- 9781954504066
In an era that started to champion "neutral" scholarship and turn faith into a mere private endeavor, P. J. Hoedemaker refused to compromise. For him, God's revelation was no optional religious add-on; it was the public truth of reality. God's Revelation is the light by which every fact, every law, and every institution must be judged. Because of that conviction, contentions arose with those who wanted a Christianity useful for morals, but impotent in public and silent in the academy.
This book traces Hoedemaker as a fearless contender in a contest with enormous stakes-the spiritual direction of the modern nation. His aim is straightforward, yet formidable: to prevent the church from being reduced to a mere voluntary club and to summon public life back under God's authority.
Rooted in older Reformed theology and its emphasis on Scripture, the confessions, and the clarity of providence, Hoedemaker presses the enduring question: if knowledge is never truly neutral, who has the right to define reality? He hazards reputation and position to show how "neutrality" so often becomes a doorway to unbelief.
The original crisis has not passed; it has simply matured. The church today still confronts the same temptation to retreat into a private corner-safe, respectable, and irrelevant-while "neutrality" quietly enthrones unbelief as the arbiter of what is real, good, and permissible. If we hold fast, refusing to trade Revelation for accommodation, the church may again serve as a pillar and buttress: strengthening consciences, restraining public sin, and calling a weary nation back from the pit of moral despair toward sanity, mercy, and just limits under God. But if we fail-if we accept a domesticated Bible and an empty public theology-then the nation will lose its anchor, leaving the church diminished and the nation more fractured, more coercive, and more lost.
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About the Author
Jan Adriaan Schlebusch is a Christian philosopher and historian from Orania. Born in 1989 in Bloemfontein, South Africa, he grew up on a cattle ranch near the city. Between 2008 and 2013, he completed a BA (Theology), a BA Honors (Latin), and an MA (Philosophy) at the University of the Free State. In 2018, he graduated with a PhD from the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen. The title of his doctoral dissertation was "Strategic Narratives: Groen van Prinsterer as Nineteenth-Century Statesman-Historian." He has published several peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Trajecta and the Journal for Christian Scholarship, among others. He is a senior researcher at the Pactum Institute and a research associate with the Department of Systematic and Historical Theology at the University of Pretoria.
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