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  • The Paradigm
    • What is Common Law?
    • The Paradigm of the Common Law
    • The Natural Rights Paradigm
    • The Modernist Paradigm: Salvation by Politics
    • Dooyeweerd and the Common Law
    • Edmund Burke’s Critique of Natural Rights
    • How Much Freedom Should We Trade for Our Security?
  • Sociological
    • Sphere Sovereignty
  • Antirevolutionary
    • Burke
    • Groen van Prinsterer
    • Rougemont
    • Savigny
    • Stahl
    • Van Eikema Hommes
  • Constitutional
    • Popular Sovereignty
    • Groen van Prinsterer
      • Christianity is Antirevolutionary
    • Stahl
      • The Christian State
      • Of the Doctrine of State in General
      • The State as Ethical Kingdom
      • The Two Principles of State Order
      • The Monarchical Principle
  • Economical
    • Rethinking the Foundations
    • Christianity and Development
    • Malthus, Human Nature, and the Social Question
    • The Gold Standard and the Social Question
      • Natural Liberty and Classical Economics
      • The Automatic Mechanism
      • The Social Question Unravelled
    • The Mystery of Capital
    • The Social Question Brought to Christ
    • The Roots of the Credit Crisis (in Dutch)
  • Juridical
    • Beseler and Gierke on the Law of Associations
    • Coming to Grips with Roman Law
    • Maine on status versus contract
    • Savigny on Principles of Law
    • Stahl on Possession versus Property
    • The Decalogue and the Natural Law
    • The Private-Law Character of the Common Law
    • Thoughts on Sphere Sovereignty: A Critique of Harinck’s Thesis
  • Political
    • Althusius on the Role of the Supreme Magistrate in the Administration of the Church
    • Political Defeat and the Divided Church
    • The Sacred Public Square
      • The Abandonment of the Gentleman's Agreement
      • The Reins of the Body Politic
      • Benedictine Infrastructure
  • National and International
    • Review of Hermann Conring’s New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor
    • Vitoria’s New World Order
    • The Meaning of National Sovereignty
      • Part I: National Sovereignty and European Union
      • Part II: Vitoria and Althusius
    • Two Kinds of Democracy
    • Redeemer Nation
    • Rights, Revolutions, and World Order
    • What We Are Up Against
    • Thoughts on Migration
  • Environmental
    • Megafire and the Pyrocene
    • Christianity and Environmentalism
    • The Environmentalist Response
  • Cultural
    • Sentimentality, the New Totalitarianism
    • Understanding Individualism
  • Theological
    • Aalders
      • Cultural Marxism or Nietzschean Anarchism?
      • What is Ideology?
    • Alvarado
      • Hoedemaker and Ecumenism
      • The Church and Christian Politics
      • The Church and Christian Politics II
      • Baptism: Infant or Believers’?
      • Constantinianism and Article 36 of the Belgic Confession of Faith
      • The Kuyper Option
      • The Politics of God and the Politics of Man
      • The Roman-Law Background of the Concept of Equity
      • Fountainhead of Liberalism
      • Church, Kingdom, Liturgy: The Political Language of the New Testament
      • New Light on the Spanish Inquisition
      • The Domestic Balance of Powers: Church, State, and Civil Liberty
      • Kuyper versus Hoedemaker
    • Bohatec
      • Church and Law
    • Hodge
      • Charles Hodge on the Role of the Church in Public Life
    • Hoedemaker
      • Dedication at the Founding of the Free University in Amsterdam
      • The Autonomy of Reason Considered from the Viewpoint of the Roman, the Lutheran, and the Reformed Church
      • The Darkness Behind the World Stage
      • The Evangelical Outlook in Holland
      • The Free University and the Christian-National Principle
      • The Reformation and the Reformed Church
    • Kromsigt
      • The Difference between New and Old Calvinism
    • Schilder
      • What are those Areas and Spheres?
    • Lingbeek
      • Kuyper on Church and State I
      • Kuyper on Church and State II
      • Neocalvinism Compared with Independency I
      • Neocalvinism Compared with Independency II
      • Neocalvinism Compared with Independency III
      • Neocalvinism Compared with Independency IV
      • Neocalvinism Compared with Independency V
    • Van Ruler
      • What I Owe to Hoedemaker
      • Politics, Church, and Kingdom
      • Sphere Sovereignty and the Theocratic Triangle
      • The Church as Community and as Institution
  • Biographical
    • Eulogy, Luz Maria Alvarado
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