No.56 Referenced from ~ Part2 - Chapter 3 - Section 2-4

The fallacy of assuming a Kantian disjuncture

One aspect of "the 15 structural data" that H.Dooyeweerd presents as the structure of the universe includes the "the aspect of faith." Through this, his Christian philosophy secures the academic potential of theology. However, the "aspect of faith" includes only doctrinal theology as an academic discipline, and it is asserted that central phenomena in Christianity such as "salvation" and "the revelation of God's Word" can only be grasped through the work of the Holy Spirit.

This is exactly what F.Schaefer describes as the "boundary of despair." When it is thought that overcoming the disconnect between God and man is possible only through some irrational method as a consequence of Kant's philosophy, it must be understood that this is precisely the despair in which modern Christianity finds itself.

Not only when the recovery of the disconnection is presented as a non-rational method such as existentialism (Bultmann) or personalism (Buber), but also when it is spoken of in a way that appears to be highly religious, such as the Word of God (Karl Barth) or the Holy Spirit (Dooyeweerd), it is a form of despair, because it assumes that "we are incapable of understanding the things that are most important to us."