Assumptions of Secular Philosophy

"The question, therefore, is not whether theology presupposes a philosophy but rather what philosophy is will work from: Will Christian theology 'seek its philosophical foundations in a Christian philosophy, ruled and reformed by the central biblical basic-motive,' or will it 'take them from the traditional scholastic or modern humanist philosophy?' (ITWT, 107)" p.153

" 'It is vain illusion,' Dooyeweerd remarks, 'to imagine that the notions borrowed from such a [so-called autonomous] philosophy could be utilized by the theologian in a purely formal sense. They involve a material content which is indissolubly bound to the total theoretical view of experience and of reality' (ITWT, 105-106)." p.154

James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy