Talk:Religious ground motive

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These are not the four RGMs Dooyeweerd discusses! This article improperly distinguishes the "synthesis" RGM and the "nature/grace" RGM. They are identical in Dooyeweerd's usage. The genuine 4th RGM is the Christian (or "biblical") one of "creation, fall, and redemption in Christ Jesus". Accordingly, Dooyeweerd sees the Nature/Grace RGM as a "synthesis" groundmotive because it is a result of an attempted synthesis between the ancient Greek groundmotive of Matter/Form and the Christian RGM.

This should be corrected. That the 4th RGM is the Christian one, and that "Synthesis" and "Nature/Grace" are identical can easily be seen in Dooyeweerd's book Roots of Western Culture.