Christian Philosophy
Vollenhoven was one of the leading intellectuals at the Free University and in the broader Reformed community of his country, who were dedicated to work formatively at the task of founding a distinctively Christian Philosophy. At the time, philosophical thought was dominated by German neo-Kantianism, and that movement's main challenger, the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. An affinity for mathematics linked some of Husserl's and Vollenhoven's ideas. Vollenhoven also absorbed significant influence from the maverick neo-Kantian Ernst Cassirer.2
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