Christian culture in Europe, Russia and North America was ruined by many factors, but one of the most destructive was the Kantian "flight to the interior," which abandoned vast stretches of "public" life to anti-Christian forces. A paradigm for the reversal of this ruin can be found in the neo-Reformational paradigm of Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, Herman Dooyeweerd , and Cornelius Van Til. All of life must be redeemed by recourse to God's written Word.