Who was Hans Rookmaaker? Hans Rookmaaker (1922 - 1977) Dutch Art Historian - Born in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in 1922. He was converted to Dutch Reformed Protestant Christianity in World War II while a prisoner of war in the Ukraine, where he met the Calvinist philosopher Johan Mekkes. After the war Rookmaaker noticed the lack of engagement in the arts by Christians in the West. In 1948 he met Francis Schaeffer, who would go on to form L'Abri in the little village of Huémoz Switzerland. Schaeffer turned out to be someone with a similar outlook to his own. Later Rookmaaker along with his wife Anky would help to start Dutch L'Abri in the Netherlands at Eck-en-Wiel. He often spoke in colleges, universities, seminaries about art and other related subjects. He was a mortal enemy of the kind of Christian propaganda disguised as art. Being Dutch he tended to speak exactly what was on his mind. And wherever he went he tended to stir up both deep thought and hot controversy. But by all accounts, and the evidence of his primitively taped lectures, he was an unforgettable presence. This lecture What Is Reality? Is to me the summation of his deepest ideas about why the culture has lost its sense of meaning It was given in 1976 and is a product of his last period before his early death in March of 1977 The text of this lecture can be found in The Complete Works of Hans Rookmaaker, edited by his daughter Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker. And more of Rookmaaker's L'Abri lectures can be found at the L'Abri Ideas Library. https://www.labriideaslibrary.org Special thanks to Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker for permission to use her father's lectures and for passing on the very few photos and one film of his that survive. ..... SINCE I CAN'T GET MONETIZED PLEASE SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL TODAY! Please consider a monthly contribution through PayPal to receive extra content and to help me afloat here in Georgia. And if you start today you can get 10 hours worth of extra content immediately. ($10 per month or more OR $50 plus in one gift.) Click this... https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=GE5NHN8AYL3YC Watch this video for more about receiving extra content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nykTp3TziRY ................ The Anadromous Life essay site for more in depth ideas: https://theanadromist.wordpress.com/ Visit my Gravity From Above channel is this one: https://www.youtube.com/user/gulagzero The Gravity From Above site for more artistic ideas involving puppetry, music, dance and other arts. https://gravityfromabove.wordpress.com/ And to understand more about my life in Georgia check out my Georgian Crossroads channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeFJ6Tm71ieNcjcUb-Trc8g And if you want to communicate with me use The Anadromous Life F ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee-9TPQ3BFE