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"If God is sovereign, then his lordship must extend over all of life, and it cannot be restricted to the walls of the church or within the Christian orbit." Abraham Kuyper Common Grace 1.1.

Tuesday 18 May 2021

Four new and forthcoming neo-Calvinist books

 These four books will be coming soon:



Jonathan Chaplin 2021. Faith in Democracy. London: SCM

Jessica and Robert Joustra (eds) 2021. Calvinism for a Secular Age. Downers Grove: IVP

Hector Acero Ferrer et al. (eds) 2021. Seeking Stillness or the Sound of Wings. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock

Mathew Kaemingk (ed.) Reformed Public Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic.

Saturday 15 May 2021

Dooyeweerd's modal aspects


 Dooyeweerd identified 14 and later 15 modal aspects within creation.

Different terms have been used by Reformationals scholars over the years to describe these aspects - and some have modified the number and the order of them. I have attempted to show some of these changes in the diagram below.

(The order is from earlier to later aspects)




Friday 14 May 2021

Nobody stands nowhere

Nobody stand nowhere - an excellent short YouTube on worldviews from the Theos Thinktank:

 

Tuesday 11 May 2021

KLC's The Big Picture

 



The Kirby Laing Centre has produced the first issue of The Big Picture - and it is truly fantastic. It includes articles on Kuyper - what other reason is needed to read it?


Monday 10 May 2021

KLC ONLINE CONCERT



KLC ONLINE CONCERT:

Full Circle: From Lament to Praise and Back Again

Zoom Event: Saturday 15 May, 7-9PM U.K. time 


Full details here:

https://kirbylaingcentre.co.uk/events/concert-full-circle/

Review of Work & Worship by Kaemingk and Willson from Baker Academic

My review of the excellent  Work and Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy by Matthew Kaemingk and Cory B. Willson has been published in the Spring 2021 edition of Foundations.

You can read it here: