all of life redeemed

Resources for a Christian worldview


Personal Perspectives

United Kingdom

England

David Hanson of Wysocs, Leeds, traces the history of the reformational movement back to the 1920s.  This paper was presented at the first UK Reformational Colloquium in Leeds, October 2006.

Richard Russell of Christian Studies Unit, Radstock, provides a few memories of a mis-spent youth in reformatia.  This paper was presented at the first UK Reformational Colloquium in Leeds, October 2006.


South America

Brazil

Ricardo Quadros Gouvêais teaches at an interdenominational seminary and is professor of philosophy at McKenzies University.  He is the author of Paixao Pela Paradoxo (Cristã Novo Século Fonte Editorialan, 2000) an introduction to Kierkegaard.  He is currently working on second doctorate on Kierkegaard and Augustine and hopes to translate some of Dooyeweerd’s works into Portuguese.  This paper was delivered at the International Symposium of the Association for reformational Philosophy Aug 2000.



New Zealand

Petrus Simons studied economics in the Netherlands, where he was also active in the Arjos, and in New Zealand. From 1972-2002 he worked in Wellington, New Zealand, for the NZ Employers Federation, the Bank of New Zealand and as a consulting economist. From 1991 he has been president of Lutherans for Life-New Zealand. He is finalising a Ph. D thesis entitled: Tilling the Good Earth; the impact of technicism and economism on agriculture under the direction of Ponti Venter and Egbert Schuurman.



Australia

 Keith Sewell wrote this article as student living in New Zealand visiting Austaralia.  It was first published in Vanguard in 1972.  It provides a fascinating historical snapshot of the reformational movement in Australia in the early seventies.