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Glossary of Terms
(references to De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee, unless
indicated. See concordance
for correlation with pages in the New Critique. The concordance
is in pdf format.)
Dooyeweerd does not speak much about prayer. Ian Ridgway
has pointed out the following reference:
In the limitation and weakness of the flesh, we grasp
the absolute truth in our knowledge of God derived from His revelation,
in prayer and worship. This knowledge in the full sense of the word
contains the religious principle and foundation of all true knowledge,
and primarily has a religious enstatic character. It no more
rests primarily on a theoretical meaning-synthesis than does the cosmic
self-consciousness. (NC II, 562)
It is interesting that in this quotation, Dooyeweerd
places prayer in relation to our (non-theoretical, enstatic)
knowing, and to God's revelation, and not
in relation to petitions.
Baader says this about prayer,
The true thoughts are only those that themselves think
through and in us, like the true words of prayer, which themselves speak
in and through us (Elementarbegriffe, 534).
Revised Feb 2/07
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