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Dooyeweerd's colleague, professor of philosophy and co-founder with Dooyeweerd of Reformational philosophy, D. H. Th.

Vollenhoven, distinguishes " three senses of ‘ law ’: structural law, inherent in the cosmos ; the imposed or proclaimed law of love, as the message of the Gospel in which Christ summarizes the teaching of Moses and the Prophets ; and the positive laws, enacted from out of positions of responsibility, in which a situation is given more definite form, in accordance to the norming law of love, in the context of actual geographical and historical exigencies.

In this last development, history is taken in the sense of encompassing the entire cosmos.

There are successive emphases here, first to ‘ God ’, then to ‘ Law ’, then to ‘ Cosmos ’.

With each step the meaning of all three is deepened ," says Dr Anthony Tol.