My article “Abraham Kuyper and Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer as Anti-Rationalist Liberals” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Church & State and will hopefully be in print in 2021.

In this article, I explore F. A. Hayek’s division of pre-1848 liberalism into two contrasting worldviews — rationalist and anti-rationalist. I argue that both Groen van Prinsterer and Kuyper, two important Dutch Anti-Revolutionary writers, were anti-rationalist liberals.

Both of them are on the record denouncing “liberalism”, but both refer mostly to French liberalism of the rationalist kind. And both admired Edmund Burke and Alexis de Tocqueville, cited by Hayek as great exponents of anti-rationalist liberalism.

I hope this article will lead to an interesting conversation as to why the contemporary Kuyperian movement seems to be much more left-wing than the original anti-revolutionaries.

A pre-print version of the article can be viewed on the Oxford Academic website.

My friend Dr. Leonardo Ramos and I translated a couple of political essays by the great Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977).

This collection of essays has just been published by Edições Vida Nova from São Paulo. For this volume, Leonardo and I wrote an extensive introduction to Dooyeweerd’s contribution to the theory of the state. The volume also contains a glossary prepared by Guilherme V. R. de Carvalho.

Leonardo Ramos is a Senior Lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais and Guilherme V. R. de Carvalho is one of the L’Abri Fellowship workers in Brazil. Both are part of the leadership of the Kuyper Association of Brazil.

Also, kudos to Jonas Madureira, editor of the collection, and Norma Braga and Franklin Ferreira, who provided a very positive review of the work.

The award-winning book Political Visions and Illusions authored by my friend Dr. David T. Koyzis has just been published in Portuguese, my translation.

The publisher is Edições Vida Nova from Brazil.