John Kok

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Dr. John Kok (1948- ) studied as an undergraduate at Trinity Christian College near Chicago, Illinois, USA, under Drs. Maartin Vrieze and Calvin Seerveld. In 1971 he went to the Free University in Amsterdam for graduate studies under professor of philosophy Henk Van Riessen and Jacob Klapwijk, the successor to Dr. D. H. Th. Vollenhoven, co-founder of Reformational philosophy. During those years Kok was reacquainted with Vollenhoven's Consequent Problem-Historical Method for the analysis of the philosophy of history in the Western intellectual tradition. Kok began to teach philosophy at Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa, USA, in 1983. In 1992 he completed his dissertation on Vollenhoven's Early Development, which focused on Vollenhoven's approach to the philosophical foundations of mathematics in 1918. Today, he still teaches a few courses, but now serves as Dean for the Humanities, Program Director for the Programs in Christian Vocation project, Managing Editor of Dordt College Press, and is the host of the daily radio show, "Talking Our Walk" (KDCR 88.5 FM).

1 Major ideas and developments in thought
2 Scholarly affiliations
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Major ideas and developments in thought

John Kok's dissertation appeared in 1992, entitled Vollenhoven: His Early Development. One of the areas of concentration in this phase of the author's study of the founder's emergence was that of V's pursuit of mathematics as a foundational discipline pointing to the most basic mode of creaturely existence. In Kok's major work to date, Patterns of the Western Mind (1998), which began as a text for his Philosophy 201 students at Dordt, he lays the foundation for his own original contribution in the use of Vollenhoven's thetical-critical method as well as his Consequent Problem-Historical Method. At present, Dr. Kok is selecting, and translating a number of Vollenhoven's essays, articles, and excerpts that will compose the soon-to-be-available volume, A Vollenhoven Reader (Dordt College Press, 2006 forthcoming). In the meantime, he has produced thematic papers on numerous topics, including shifts in ecological thought.

[edit] Scholarly affiliations

[edit] References

[edit] Books (original studies)

Kok, John H. Vollenhoven: His Early Development (Sioux Center, Iowa, USA: Dordt College Press, 1992)
Kok, John H. Patterns of the Western Mind (Sioux Center, Iowa, USA: Dordt College Press, 1998)