MEMORANDUM
From: Bruce Wearne, Ballarat, AUSTRALIA bcwearne@gmail.com
To: Researchers of the All of Life Redeemed on-line repository of reformational scholarly literature.
Re: An August 2026 deposit to assist any investment in “Bob Goudzwaard Studies”
Date: 6 August 2026
I was wondering about the right word for what I’ve collected together.
How do I describe what I have sent off to Steve Bishop to make available from the “Bob Goudzwaard” corner of the AoLR on-line filing cabinet?
What is here listed and freshly available are articles that have been prepared to provide more of Bob’s Dutch contributions in the English language.
The term I’m looking for may well be “deposit”, although I am disposed to view these in terms of “investment”. With these newly submitted deposits – a tranche of Bob’s extensive oeuvre – English-speaking AoLR researchers will now have access to some of Bob’s work published in Dutch, but also to other works that help us understand the academic, political and cultural context within which Bob worked.
I’ve had the “lucky privilege” of working with this material for some time, and I think it is now the time to make this material available. It also includes my own commentary that is woven into the documents via prefaces and footnotes. It is also provisional in the sense that I am aware that in so many places improvements can be made to the translations I have offered—albeit with the help of Google and DeepL on-line robots, such is my still pidgin-Dutch. Please feel free to take up correspondence with me where you think this is needed. Thank you.
So here is a list of these August 2026 items added to the AoLR Bob Goudzwaard repository. There are 8 “translation documents” and two other pdf files that will assist serious students in providing context to the item concerned.
Pro Rege.
Bruce Wearne
*1. Caring Enough: Essays in Normative Economics
The Unpriceable Economic Outlook and Theory of Hopeful Stewardship
of Bob Goudzwaard (1934-2024)
* Original Dutch version of No.13
“Economische waarde en de doeleinden en instrumenten van economisch belied” in: B. de Gaay Fortman (ed) Economie en waarde Samsom Uitgeverij Alphen aan den Rijn/Brussel 1982
*2. In Conversation and Critical Solidarity:
Bob Goudzwaard’s Occasional Writings for Economische-Statistische Berichten
1963-1968, 1980, 1999.
*3. Reforming Political Reformation:
The Anti-Revolutionaire Staatkunde Articles of Bob Goudzwaard from 1959-1979, with footnoted critical commentary
*4. Economic Policy – Article 17 1963
*Original Dutch chapter “Economische Politiek – Artikel 17” in W.P. Berghuis & H. Algra eds: Anti-revolutionair bestek. Aalten: De Graafschap 1964, 248-315
*5. “By no means have I had a dull life”
Interview with Bob Goudzwaard by Sander Griffioen and Herman Noordegraaf eds.
Bewogen Realisme: Economie, cultuur, oecumene. Bij het afscheid Bob Goudzwaard 1999 pp. 28-43.
*6. “Between the Shoals: Keeping An Open Perspective for Policy and Society”
English translation of “Tussen de Klippen Door” Goudzwaard’s retirement lecture as professor Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 30 March, 1999. Bewogen Realisme: Economie, cultuur, oecumene. Bij het afscheid Bob Goudzwaard 1999 pp. 5-27.
*7. Slowly Reading
an exegetical commentary of the various formulations of the research hypothesis for
Capitalism and Progress: a diagnosis of Western Society. 1979
*8. The Interrogation (Het Vermoeden)
Translation of Annemieke Schrijver’s interview of Bob Goudzwaard,
IKON, The Netherlands Jan 15, 2012
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