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Roots originally started life as a series of newspaper articles in a weekly Dutch paper that Dooyeweerd edited, Nieuw Nederland. There were originally 58 articles that appeared between August 1945 and May 1948. These articles formed the basis of a book, Vernieuwing en bezinning om het reformatisch goundmotief (Renewal and Reflection concerning the Reformational Ground Motive), edited by J. A. Oosterhoff, published by J. B. van den Brink in 1959. The Dutch edition also included 18 other articles by Dooyeweerd published in the newspaper. This was translated by John Kraay c. 1970 and made available as mimeograph.
The first published English edition appeared in 1979 under the title: Roots of Western Culture: Pagan, Secular, and Christian Options. This edition was translated by John Kraay and edited by Mark Vander Vennen and Bernard Zylstra and published by Wedge Publishing, Toronto. The basis for the book was an in-house translation prepared by members of the Groen van Prinsterer Society under the direction of H. Evan Runner. Runner had decided to limit the translation to the treatment of ground motives and the other 18 articles were omitted from this translation.
In 2003 a newly edited version appeared, edited by D[anie]. F. M. Strauss, as Series B, Volume 3 in The Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd and published by Edwin Mellen [ISBN 0 7734 8715 8]. This edition also included a translation of Dooyeweerd’s preface to the 1959 Oosterhoff edition.
The Oosterhof edition had only three chapters. The table below shows how these relate to those of the 1979 edition:
1979
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1. Antithesis
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Introduction
1. Roots of Western Culture
2. Sphere Sovereignty
3. History, Historicism, and Norms
4. Faith and Culture
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2. Reformation and Accommodation
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5. The Great Synthesis
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3. Reformation and Humanism
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6. Classical Humanism
7. Romantic Redirection
8. The Rise of Social Thought
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