tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106418702024-03-18T03:03:25.988+00:00An accidental blog"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.
stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.comBlogger2481125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-34927149951406004172024-02-23T19:23:00.006+00:002024-02-23T19:49:00.714+00:00“Everything matters” Gordon Spykman<p> My paper on Gordon Spykman has now been published:</p><p><br /></p><p>Bishop, Steve (2024) "Everything Matters: Gordon Spykman - A Neo-Calvinist Theologian," <i>Pro Rege</i>: Vol. 52: No. 3, 1 - 15.</p><p>Available at: <a href="https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/pro_rege/vol52/iss3/1">https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/pro_rege/vol52/iss3/1</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMfDuEbBxEEGrOb-aFclmRZL2IayL7PxHKmAX6TW_Cy7IZIeSLHd5QtXIxaTYkzWUch4-QJIcF_mVxNt4A-93LGjupXJ-Ce8rnYgekE3R8GoAje9BUaRe1_023e2vC2D2rv2nxZIDhECyDbDywlm4szV86ucD4p9BHRzEGC9MtJiAoFd94PJcN/s1748/IMG_2407.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1748" data-original-width="1421" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMfDuEbBxEEGrOb-aFclmRZL2IayL7PxHKmAX6TW_Cy7IZIeSLHd5QtXIxaTYkzWUch4-QJIcF_mVxNt4A-93LGjupXJ-Ce8rnYgekE3R8GoAje9BUaRe1_023e2vC2D2rv2nxZIDhECyDbDywlm4szV86ucD4p9BHRzEGC9MtJiAoFd94PJcN/w520-h640/IMG_2407.jpeg" width="520" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-64053512153955418962023-12-13T07:08:00.002+00:002023-12-13T07:08:43.497+00:00Kuyper’s words, works & world <p> <a href="https://www.kuyperonline.nl/">https://www.kuyperonline.nl/</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmncAdHNDr_GmeqTc1TXkUu_tf33ETRY1VhGU7LoPh5BIlM_ZhNr2AfeLz493-YZPSo04uq-VK5dHHI67bg1YUYWjMu03Z8AesB-f3Oag2ogykNmRlNnZnAq-x50kt6ToSellVCgS0_xzHniPr3H_-77ZKKFmYBO3YmPHo9Kf_nGgHnHYcZJi9/s2048/IMG_2341.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1396" data-original-width="2048" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmncAdHNDr_GmeqTc1TXkUu_tf33ETRY1VhGU7LoPh5BIlM_ZhNr2AfeLz493-YZPSo04uq-VK5dHHI67bg1YUYWjMu03Z8AesB-f3Oag2ogykNmRlNnZnAq-x50kt6ToSellVCgS0_xzHniPr3H_-77ZKKFmYBO3YmPHo9Kf_nGgHnHYcZJi9/w640-h436/IMG_2341.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-8020897919153954132023-12-11T13:15:00.003+00:002023-12-11T13:15:54.028+00:00Herman Bavinck: “All of God’s creation is good … “<p> Herman Bavinck from The Problem of War:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(229, 229, 229, 0.1); caret-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.9); color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.9); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-indent: 20px;">But it is all the more striking that Christianity is devoid of all asceticism and from its very beginning took on a positive relationship to the world at large. This fact is principally found in the statement that God loved the world and that Christ came not to destroy the world but to save it. From this focal point lines are drawn in all directions to indicate the place Christians are to occupy and the attitudes they are to have in this sinful world. They must not withdraw from the world, but being in the world they are to keep themselves from the evil one. Nothing is unclean of itself. All God's creation is good and nothing is to be rejected if it be accepted with thanksgiving. Marriage is honorable among all. The government is God's servant and is entitled to obedience and respect. Whoever becomes a Christian is to remain in the calling to which he was called. The prayer of Jesus' disciples is that God's name be hallowed, that His kingdom come, that His will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. All this points, not to an avoidance, but to a sanctification of the world.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(229, 229, 229, 0.1); caret-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.9); color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.9); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-indent: 20px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(229, 229, 229, 0.1); caret-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.9); color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.9); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-indent: 20px;">Translated by Stephen Voorwinde. </span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.9); color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.9); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Banner of Truth</i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(229, 229, 229, 0.1); caret-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.9); color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.9); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-indent: 20px;"> (July-August 1977): 46–53.</span></p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-4971923209376541212023-11-29T16:44:00.001+00:002023-11-29T16:44:24.041+00:00Why we should read Vollenhoven today<p> Available <a href="https://kirbylaingcentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/EiC-Steve-Bishop-27.5-November-2023.pdf">here</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixx48HwONv5Tsy6XXGxnFJ_OJXap6DausErAUADGEct3aFxmUJWptxr_UfkQduEWATlTflzzETUeFtl1Yb7XzkbBFMNIFmc8KJbDGlMBhNBHmTdLpo58pebdvhEY-ZujVxsiFCCvPK9aoH9TL7vjQwnmItI4wIR4A-PAF_BV_ChBcvrSzPUtH2/s1723/IMG_2320.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1723" data-original-width="1172" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixx48HwONv5Tsy6XXGxnFJ_OJXap6DausErAUADGEct3aFxmUJWptxr_UfkQduEWATlTflzzETUeFtl1Yb7XzkbBFMNIFmc8KJbDGlMBhNBHmTdLpo58pebdvhEY-ZujVxsiFCCvPK9aoH9TL7vjQwnmItI4wIR4A-PAF_BV_ChBcvrSzPUtH2/w436-h640/IMG_2320.jpeg" width="436" /></a></div><br /><p></p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-85286685253833894062023-11-22T12:01:00.002+00:002023-11-22T12:01:41.163+00:00Some new and forthcoming books<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Mr Dooyeweerd, Modal Aspects and Dynamic Evangelism. KOERS — Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 88(1). Available at: https://doi. org/10.19108/KOERS.88.1.2528</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zL6cp0JaHgLScwW3EdBVu1ENsLwcqxmlgZvs7zOP23m1g6qYkVcu4B8dpNCM261pRmiBhZsZCFxLweIgyA88nh1Bh6999f5Z-u4OpzLlU9w-9kPAfDvcp9amt8E4JmkkDmRySJJf0-tR8WA4CcpfYGlzqt-65HBUe-cMsUM3CaS1qcwoZwOT/s1938/IMG_2249.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1298" data-original-width="1938" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zL6cp0JaHgLScwW3EdBVu1ENsLwcqxmlgZvs7zOP23m1g6qYkVcu4B8dpNCM261pRmiBhZsZCFxLweIgyA88nh1Bh6999f5Z-u4OpzLlU9w-9kPAfDvcp9amt8E4JmkkDmRySJJf0-tR8WA4CcpfYGlzqt-65HBUe-cMsUM3CaS1qcwoZwOT/w640-h428/IMG_2249.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-81232725970905839422023-09-22T07:38:00.004+01:002023-09-22T07:38:21.945+01:00Dooyeweerd’s Reformation & Scholasticism read by Rudi Hayward<p> This is brilliant!</p>
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zi2zGSWUDdM?si=n7sXBMPNd5YifX7c" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-33856146896076277402023-09-22T07:34:00.001+01:002023-09-22T07:39:00.674+01:00Neo-Calvinism in Germany<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYftVbw9eYQLjACziXAtUwbtpcZLccxImt4VrgZ8Urz4PuwNeYR2lofCb2KGFQNVzGYD8tqsiX9eV99RmSY2NVRiN_54MIW_A_JiG8Ulxb1X9hY9g46uHPGsUWGbZ0fdANSunH-fZPZNBKBwwaIvZL_2LX8f6Vg-5EOCU8634PjvcE1hy49F2C/s960/IMG_2246.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="960" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYftVbw9eYQLjACziXAtUwbtpcZLccxImt4VrgZ8Urz4PuwNeYR2lofCb2KGFQNVzGYD8tqsiX9eV99RmSY2NVRiN_54MIW_A_JiG8Ulxb1X9hY9g46uHPGsUWGbZ0fdANSunH-fZPZNBKBwwaIvZL_2LX8f6Vg-5EOCU8634PjvcE1hy49F2C/w640-h452/IMG_2246.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7LvhNH0ASJvRSHagh4IiPNofXczzXIUeVAzcUIqYcUP4-M6EMHbtuaQpJFaWvq7uWk82WIveRQfN_BQqQljaj6EW1A7cjuGNwCUpWk_CyQ3SGH5et7S0vE6XBsoGDcMKj0zodLOdCL9UkRSQ2t4k0e91XyQIfh6CBuuPjLzwW63wDDTeAqHAX/s960/IMG_2247.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="960" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7LvhNH0ASJvRSHagh4IiPNofXczzXIUeVAzcUIqYcUP4-M6EMHbtuaQpJFaWvq7uWk82WIveRQfN_BQqQljaj6EW1A7cjuGNwCUpWk_CyQ3SGH5et7S0vE6XBsoGDcMKj0zodLOdCL9UkRSQ2t4k0e91XyQIfh6CBuuPjLzwW63wDDTeAqHAX/w640-h452/IMG_2247.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-41659527357895061722023-09-09T18:31:00.008+01:002023-12-05T10:44:18.877+00:00Origin of the term neo-Calvinism pre 1855?<p>The term neo-Calvinism is becoming more and more popular as this ngram of the number of usages of the term in books in the Google database shows:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEik4Swyeby-OwSIWus0cVos6XulRoAO_Taa54wOd2iXtJJkkuNbDp3IaHRpF_7CQ0S0fQTqmNpMAu9e6DEY2WN9tuSDqdIc7UYISyVaxGa3Y8qcG_Xp--BccacOrMjFHBzX0t7Hc7KcEYohpSV21QETXqZQE7iL2s8z5WhrZRPgIywvER32nyy2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="330" data-original-width="904" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEik4Swyeby-OwSIWus0cVos6XulRoAO_Taa54wOd2iXtJJkkuNbDp3IaHRpF_7CQ0S0fQTqmNpMAu9e6DEY2WN9tuSDqdIc7UYISyVaxGa3Y8qcG_Xp--BccacOrMjFHBzX0t7Hc7KcEYohpSV21QETXqZQE7iL2s8z5WhrZRPgIywvER32nyy2=w640-h234" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p> </p><p>The earliest known use of the noun neo-Calvinism is in the 1850s according to the <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i>. It suggests that it stems from 1854, in the writing of J. Guthrie.</p><p>The reference it gives is J. Guthrie in <i>Evang. Union Worthies</i></p><p>The Revd John Guthrie had died in 1839, so the article is a brief biography of him, not by him as the OED suggests.</p><p>I couldn’t find an 1854 version, but the 1883 <i>The Worthies of the Evangelical Union Being the Lives and Labours of Deceased Evangelical Union Minister</i>s; <i>Illustrated with Portraits</i> has this:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjim7U2UXLiYKA1_dEye2OOjoXPLryWQDLjoBmz8rPfqyoI28Jz5x0RCnyrAfQZF1Xv3lhPaPWcWKcVa4J_f033dXrCEsMLtU7gdVWdcl6i3qZCBaiRXB765HN8a4MFFdTR1feHOk5B_ZMswgHx2iK4f4gMg2n0lslmYIfwGsY8je-ocPUIx0pV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1378" data-original-width="1816" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjim7U2UXLiYKA1_dEye2OOjoXPLryWQDLjoBmz8rPfqyoI28Jz5x0RCnyrAfQZF1Xv3lhPaPWcWKcVa4J_f033dXrCEsMLtU7gdVWdcl6i3qZCBaiRXB765HN8a4MFFdTR1feHOk5B_ZMswgHx2iK4f4gMg2n0lslmYIfwGsY8je-ocPUIx0pV=w640-h486" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>However, the first mention cannot have been in 1883 as a paper by a Mr Rutherford with the title “Calvinism and Neo-Calvinism, or the Divine intention in the Atonement” is mentioned.</p><p>This is from <i>The Evangelical Repository</i> - Volumes 1-2 - Page 106 published in 1855. Presumably by a Mr Guthrie.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMiHwv_lr0k54-bTToTfHAE4QmGAPBFOU7Stje1zNWwVHuJ8gMACRYKHN5QiiQDgEnhPQjC5Ozg7T8tMPM7b20a86ocHCvW32_hOTUbVwQiQPbQR2y-P1umw6SvFSbmRrYtLEVaFQup0dteercfRToczD-HsXkYoY4IsBpY5lGC511vzV07mxc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1228" data-original-width="904" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMiHwv_lr0k54-bTToTfHAE4QmGAPBFOU7Stje1zNWwVHuJ8gMACRYKHN5QiiQDgEnhPQjC5Ozg7T8tMPM7b20a86ocHCvW32_hOTUbVwQiQPbQR2y-P1umw6SvFSbmRrYtLEVaFQup0dteercfRToczD-HsXkYoY4IsBpY5lGC511vzV07mxc=w472-h640" width="472" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>This, of course pre-dates Kuyper and how the term is used today. The first mention of the term applying to the approach of Kuyper and Bavinck et al appears to be in an 1887 review of Wilhelm Geesink’s <i>Calvinisten in Holland</i> by by J. Reitsma (George Harinck, “Herman Bavinck and the Neo-Calvinist Concept of the French Revolution,” in James Eglinton and George Harinck (eds) <i>Neo-Calvinism and French Revolution</i> (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), 21 fn 43. The term originally had negative connotations, but Anne Anema (1872-1966) used it as a convenient term to describe the movement and the term stuck. (Anne Anema, <i>Calvinisme en rechtswetenschap: een studie</i> (Amsterdam, 1897), p. xvi.)</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEsLe_Q8vAjG9qBM9YeGJCF97L2Qeq-Jp9pk74C-htviwI1SJkw_FWPpItnotZkzR-DzP8d3XXEin69UGzbB-tHeIvVSl7xLq5QgBmFXr2lM1BEmXFZu8_wdwyoIqZ1ARIii1Cys_sQ7oQudhFUX2MrfeTdVTmASp4oqvAL5_FDRcIITPF2grd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1570" data-original-width="2024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEsLe_Q8vAjG9qBM9YeGJCF97L2Qeq-Jp9pk74C-htviwI1SJkw_FWPpItnotZkzR-DzP8d3XXEin69UGzbB-tHeIvVSl7xLq5QgBmFXr2lM1BEmXFZu8_wdwyoIqZ1ARIii1Cys_sQ7oQudhFUX2MrfeTdVTmASp4oqvAL5_FDRcIITPF2grd" width="619" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p> </p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-73328676227878072102023-09-07T17:44:00.000+01:002023-09-07T17:44:06.719+01:00Some new and forthcoming books<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRtagQSl94zxsvxb8AQV8DV_q0ugxs6xYzDMMg0_QX39X0QKGmw6IrcdQcTfsrzvqiAVAjDt74k_nO0BmD4u1eiJTqxdRdt8jAApvBAErx17jlCAsev4qa3Vv-0VW9TcKK2deDXEzIJp8DZHK0YkJKDh3tjQmLEe3DgYgFGQ3-jp__YhU1lEuT" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1806" data-original-width="1824" height="633" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRtagQSl94zxsvxb8AQV8DV_q0ugxs6xYzDMMg0_QX39X0QKGmw6IrcdQcTfsrzvqiAVAjDt74k_nO0BmD4u1eiJTqxdRdt8jAApvBAErx17jlCAsev4qa3Vv-0VW9TcKK2deDXEzIJp8DZHK0YkJKDh3tjQmLEe3DgYgFGQ3-jp__YhU1lEuT=w640-h633" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p> </p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-61022728953310738082023-08-31T06:43:00.005+01:002023-08-31T11:52:40.175+01:00Discovering Dooyeweerd edited By Danie Strauss (Jordan Station: Paideia Press, 2023)A new book - it promises to be the book of the year (if not decade):<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjzRpZaOh077AR-7ksfLADo8T9WA9Q9nUqe0IQZ9zSTAe_ZWw4ymOPmmRCHi07lKtro1RqAzLmC4PButPnvJZOHgJet_0b97rOC68D9KRFRpKS4Sz6cQdTttb4fnFyDTyRWTkDXEpv6cGdH8EejmVfMwtAaybM4LTjovemo79oZ4XHuJvfHOKp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="787" data-original-width="525" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjzRpZaOh077AR-7ksfLADo8T9WA9Q9nUqe0IQZ9zSTAe_ZWw4ymOPmmRCHi07lKtro1RqAzLmC4PButPnvJZOHgJet_0b97rOC68D9KRFRpKS4Sz6cQdTttb4fnFyDTyRWTkDXEpv6cGdH8EejmVfMwtAaybM4LTjovemo79oZ4XHuJvfHOKp=w427-h640" width="427" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Available here<a href="https://paideiapressorders.com/products/discovering-dooyeweerd-d-f-m-strauss" target="_blank"> https://paideiapressorders.com/products/discovering-dooyeweerd-d-f-m-strauss</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The cheapest UK price is here: <a href="https://wordery.com/discovering-dooyeweerd-strauss-9780888153227">https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/D-F-M-Strauss/Discovering-Dooyeweerd/29274473</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Contents</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Foreword</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Introduction by Danie F: M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1. The Idea of a Christian Philosophy by Roy Clouser</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2. The Ground-Motive of Greek Culture by Herman Dooyeweerd</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3. Dooyeweerd on The Medieval Ground-Motive of Nature and Grace by Herman Dooyeweerd</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">4. The Rise of the Ground-Motive of Nature and Freedom by Herman Dooyeweerd</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5. The Internal Tension Present in the Ground-Motive of Nature and Freedom by Herman Dooyeweerd</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">6. The Significance of Dooyeweerd's Philosophy for</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Understanding the Foundational Role of Worldview by Michael W. Goheen</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">7. Dooyeweerd and Radical Orthodoxy by Danie F. M. Straws</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">8. Dooyeweerd and Theology by Willem J. Ouweneel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">9. Reformed Scholasticism and Reformational Thinking by Joseph Boot</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">10. The Church, Society, and the Kingdom by Willem J. Ouweneel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">11 Realism and Nominalism - Part 1 by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">12. Realism and Nominalism - Part 2 by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">13. The Distinction between Structure and Direction by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">14. Dooyeweerd's Perspective on Early Greek Philosophy by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">15. The Scope of Sphere Sovereignty by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">16. Dooyeweerd's Philosophy of Time by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">17. Philosophical Reflection on Physical Entities by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">18. Dooyeweerd: Enriching Our Understanding of Number and Space by Danie F M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">19. Modal Universality by Danie F M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">20. Philosophical Roots of Psychology by Willem J. Ouweneel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">21. Galileo and Einstein by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">22. Modes of Explanation Making Identity Understandable by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">23. Understanding Enkapsis as Contrasted with the Chemical Bond by Martin A. Rice, Jr.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">24. Antimony and Contradiction by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">25. Different Kinds of Criticism by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">26. The Significance of Dooyeweerd's Work for the Natural Sciences by Richard Gunton</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">27. What Happened to "Evolution"? by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">28. Of History and the Science of History by Harry Van Dyke</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">29. Constitutive and Regulative Historical Principles by Danie F: M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">30. The Significance of Dooyeweerd's Philosophy for Understanding the Complexity of Technology by Maarten J. Verkerk</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">31. The Significance of Dooyeweerd's Philosophy for Understanding Human Responsibility in Technology by Maarten J. Verkerk</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">32. Understanding One's Own Professional Practice: The Triple I Model</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">by Maarten J. Verkerk</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">33. Basic Aesthetics, as Dooyeweerd Could Have Written It by Calvin Seerveld</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">34. Is Language Uniquely Human? by Danie F: M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">35. The Prevalent Technicism in Society by Egbert Schuurman</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">36. Popular Sovereignty by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">37. The Intriguing Nature of Firms and/or Markets and/or Workers by Frederick CuN. Fourie</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">38. Developments within Roman Law bY Dame k: M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">39. Dooyeweerd's Critical-Empirical Theory of Law by Alan Cameron</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">40. The Relationship between Dooyeweerd's Systematic Philosophy and his Theory of the Basic Concepts of the Science of Law by Alan Cameron</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">41. Civil Private Law by Herman Dooyeweerd</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">42. Theory of an International Legal Order by Romel Regalado Bagares</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">43. Are Norms and Principles Ethical or Moral in Nature? by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">44. What Is Inherent in Normativity? by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">45. Compound Basic Concepts by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">46. Traditional Societies by Danie F. M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">47. Differentiation and Integration by Danie F M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">48. Dooyeweerd on Romanticism by Herman Dooyeweerd</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">49. Classifying Social Forms of Life by Danie F: M. Strauss</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">50. Context Is Everything, or Is It? by Albert Weideman</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">51. The Meaning of Technology by Egbert Schuurman</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">52. Human Freedom and Political Order by James W. Skillen</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">53. The Good of Politics: Dooyeweerd's Contribution by James W. Skillen</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">54. Political Idolatry: Assessing the Ideologies of Our Day by David T. Koyzis</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">55. Dooyeweerd and Vollenhoven: What They Share, How They Differ, and How They Complement One Another by Jeremy Ive</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">56. Everyday Life with Dooyeweerd by Andrew Basden</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">57. Understanding and Practicing Research with Dooyeweerd's Help by Andrew Basden</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">58. Adam and Biology by Willem I. Ouweneel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">59. Dooyeweerd's Approach to Philosophical Anthropology 549 by Gerrit Glas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">60. What Could Dooyeweerd Teach Us About the Study of the Brain? by Gerrit Glas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">61. Health Care from a Dooyeweerdian Perspective: A Normative Practices Approach by Gerrit Glas </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bibliography</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Subject Index</div><div><br /></div></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-1969641579349355162023-08-09T13:14:00.006+01:002023-08-09T15:19:58.318+01:00Windows on Worldviews<p> A fantastic new resource for GCSE RE and Philosophy, and foryouth workers</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://thinkfaith.net/windows/">https://thinkfaith.net/windows/</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQDYsZnIF0aGiCV5MI3KgrEfDxJdVUAR3WpDFeDBcQ8zpLu_E4uCftkBiseyv1gXnyTV56dtXNTlK3aV30CLXm8SuNbiA95yLhAiXsRCr-mSPL7A-kDHFYJeD0Joi3xPWs-0OIKw9du2WrTMjVKhfbBUScpopZ5zKB0598g0DOAmDx2V4_lqzR/s1572/IMG_2176.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1572" data-original-width="1514" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQDYsZnIF0aGiCV5MI3KgrEfDxJdVUAR3WpDFeDBcQ8zpLu_E4uCftkBiseyv1gXnyTV56dtXNTlK3aV30CLXm8SuNbiA95yLhAiXsRCr-mSPL7A-kDHFYJeD0Joi3xPWs-0OIKw9du2WrTMjVKhfbBUScpopZ5zKB0598g0DOAmDx2V4_lqzR/w616-h640/IMG_2176.jpeg" width="616" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>The pack comprises:</p><p>• Six short story films (about five minutes each) exploring worldviews</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfgTxb7HTGsXSPTyZNTGWiD6Bw4-o2Uj-">https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfgTxb7HTGsXSPTyZNTGWiD6Bw4-o2Uj-</a></p><p><br /></p><p>• Six accompanying ‘Boffin Slots’: explanatory videos (about five minutes each) opening up</p><p>philosophical thinkers and roots of commonly held beliefs where teacher, philosopher and author Mark Roques plays ‘professor’ - undergirding the learning points in the story films </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfgTxb7HTGsVGzrgMmZMHDLH9EY8dM1gs">https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfgTxb7HTGsVGzrgMmZMHDLH9EY8dM1gs</a></p><p><br /></p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-22329119482740932272023-08-01T14:29:00.002+01:002023-08-01T14:29:08.433+01:00Asia Kuyper Institute <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSdWs2Fg3HtduDNnTF4E6b8T5RQrGjihVKZ8NdxgE1kMttKg-QrHe-QR0iFg5lvRTtMVNshF1i0bnjwGm0RXqVq4p7UZHiFq3SQHcsgbn0s2A93czlziuhZ9V9QY6Ohozi3r9XL_dLrBsF8Ib51xXvdEBAyNHXHE9eW1NN-yvzNTLrBaQNVvXh/s2000/unnamed.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1414" height="890" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSdWs2Fg3HtduDNnTF4E6b8T5RQrGjihVKZ8NdxgE1kMttKg-QrHe-QR0iFg5lvRTtMVNshF1i0bnjwGm0RXqVq4p7UZHiFq3SQHcsgbn0s2A93czlziuhZ9V9QY6Ohozi3r9XL_dLrBsF8Ib51xXvdEBAyNHXHE9eW1NN-yvzNTLrBaQNVvXh/w629-h890/unnamed.png" width="629" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-16474504689466223352023-07-21T08:12:00.002+01:002023-07-21T08:12:18.172+01:00Kuyperania 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWuiauzwvlmlBxnQjZrA6wK3jOPmS4ONuiSGjbOiZkO1KhptxxrVVOhIMb7D2o-5Q-CrqEM3J5JtG4I-YkpXb_nwZuoS8cx7_S2wRkdGl8OmhTO5-m4a2g4hxAaHfrWIRl4M8b53p7pBqKuOSExbAum0eR87gxdZ2Ej_39rU17eK38C51I3YXT/s1654/Screenshot%202023-07-21%20at%2008.06.55.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1654" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWuiauzwvlmlBxnQjZrA6wK3jOPmS4ONuiSGjbOiZkO1KhptxxrVVOhIMb7D2o-5Q-CrqEM3J5JtG4I-YkpXb_nwZuoS8cx7_S2wRkdGl8OmhTO5-m4a2g4hxAaHfrWIRl4M8b53p7pBqKuOSExbAum0eR87gxdZ2Ej_39rU17eK38C51I3YXT/w640-h376/Screenshot%202023-07-21%20at%2008.06.55.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> My "Kuyperania 2022" has been published in Koers <div>Bishop, S., 2023. Kuyperania 2022. K<i>OERS — Bulletin for Christian Scholarship</i>, 88(1)<br /><p></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.88.1.2554" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14983a; font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">https://doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.88.1.2554</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Articles and books discussed include:</p><p>Beck, Michael and Falconer, Robert 2022. Toward a Substructural Cartography of Reformed Cultural Engagement: Key Areas in Confessional Reformed and Covenantal Thought. The South African Baptist Journal of Theology (2022):153-181.</p><p>Bishop, Steve 2022a. Abraham Kuyper’s Critics. Tydskrif vir Christelike Wetenskap/Journal for Christian Scholarship 58(3&4), 57 - 93. Retrieved from https://pubs.ufs.ac.za/index.php/tcw/article/view/785.</p><p>Bishop, Steve 2022b. Abraham Kuyper and evolution. Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship 87(1) https://doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.87.1.2510.</p><p>Harefa, Surya 2022. “The State of Neo-Calvinism in Japan”. </p><p> Online: https://thelaymenslounge.com/the-state-of-neo-calvinism-japan/</p><p>Intan, B.F. 2022, Kuyper’s Sphere Sovereignty and the Restriction on Building Worship Places in Indonesia. HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 78(1), a7309. https://doi.org/10.4102/hts. v78i1.7309.</p><p>Joustra J.R. and Joustra R.J. 2022 Calvinism for a Secular Age: A Twenty-First-Century Reading of Abraham Kuyper’s Stone Lectures. Downers Grove: IVP.</p><p>Kristanto, David 2022. Sovereignty of God and Religious Tolerance: A Kuyperian Perspective. Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research 669:124-127. https://doi.org/10.2991/ assehr.k.220702.029.</p><p>Kuyper, Abraham 2022. On Charity and Justice. Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.</p><p>Li, Jin (李晋) 2022. Meaning, Objectivity and Universality: Bavinck and Pannenberg on History and Revelation. Journal of Chinese Theology 8(2): 220–249. https://doi.org/10.1163/27726606-20220011.</p><p>McIlhenny, Ryan 2022. Contact and Conflict: Integral Experience in Classical Chinese and Reformational Philosophies. Journal of Chinese Theology 8(2): 186–219. https://doi.org/10.1163/27726606-20220012.</p><p>Pass, Bruce 2022. Review of Common Grace by Abraham Kuyper. Journal of Reformed Theology 16(1- 2):164-165. https://brill.com/view/journals/jrt/16/1-2/article-p164_16.xml</p><p>Salurante, Tony, Kristanto, David, Malik, Malik, Bora, Lewi Nataniel, and Nelly, Nelly 2022. A Virtual Sacred Space Some Theological Considerations. Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research 645:144-148. https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220207.023.</p><p>Schilder, Klaas 2022. Schilder Reader: The Essential Theological Writing. G. Harinck, M. de Jong, and R. Mouw (ed.). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.</p><p>Sidharta, Leonard (戴永富) 2022. How to Make Athens Closer to Jerusalem: Construing a Neo-Calvinist Model of the Relationship between Philosophy and Theology. Journal of Chinese Theology 8(2): 135– 162. https://brill.com/view/journals/jct/8/2/article-p135_2.xml</p><p>Tseng, Shao Kai (曾劭愷) 2022. Editorial. Journal of Chinese Theology 8(2): 129–134. https://brill.com/view/ journals/jct/8/2/article-p129_1.xml</p><p>Un, A. S. 2022. Ideological Uniformity and Political Integralism in Europe and Indonesia: A Kuyperian Critique. Philosophia Reformata 87(2), 129-150. https://doi.org/10.1163/23528230-bja10049.</p><p>Vásárhelyi Bálint Márk 2022. Common Grace in Abraham Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism. British Reformed Journal 71: 14-24.</p><p>Wisse, Maarten 2022. Holy Supper: Retrieving Abraham Kuyper. In Reinventing Christian Doctrine: Retrieving the Law-Gospel Distinction. London: T&T Clark, 2022. 165–184. https://www.bloomsburycollections. com/book/reinventing-christian-doctrine-retrieving-the-law-gospel-distinction/ch8-holy-supper- retrieving-abraham-kuyper</p><p>Xu, Ximian 2022. How to Make Sino-Reformed Theology Possible? Retrieving Abraham Kuyper’s Proto-Reformed Contextual Theology. Journal of Chinese Theology 8(2): 163–185. https://doi. org/10.1163/27726606-20220010.</p></div>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-76207270128666696452023-07-18T08:29:00.001+01:002023-07-18T08:29:35.713+01:00Kuyper on Mysticism<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR7ZJefQKhjzGFemwKJObiTpFO_oqFkqsXN7dCOJDoNYyx7BFhCUNS359pYVviCJKrOZD11D42UH_Cx2cJEODTwoeOuYJ1Q2M_tFb8fDEvdCO0bvhSiTs-gCbc6ywTGPItxyO_iuKZFsLzvP_y5aapMpFklnrj8DwewbbxQKAweAS5lRREvdkl/s496/IMG_2166.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="458" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR7ZJefQKhjzGFemwKJObiTpFO_oqFkqsXN7dCOJDoNYyx7BFhCUNS359pYVviCJKrOZD11D42UH_Cx2cJEODTwoeOuYJ1Q2M_tFb8fDEvdCO0bvhSiTs-gCbc6ywTGPItxyO_iuKZFsLzvP_y5aapMpFklnrj8DwewbbxQKAweAS5lRREvdkl/w590-h640/IMG_2166.jpeg" width="590" /></a></div><a href="https://thelaymenslounge.com/mysticism-by-abraham-kuyper/">https://thelaymenslounge.com/mysticism-by-abraham-kuyper/</a><p></p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-69228617540549324572023-07-15T07:29:00.000+01:002023-07-15T07:29:07.837+01:00New Journal: Neocalviniana<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnn5CNuL316f2Vjzi01ReT9UOS1u4VRLW9eEEOkKh_mT1Rjq5-_jgDP0R-1nnJV1JhHB8VPPsUP1PMAqb-eGIaDlISYxrdoXX7J5MsJjoV78R5yQ9t9--5cC2DD1vE1Bmgb4s2Dni_Nk9Y1HZs7NtWy6lQq66KcTj12SX9pvruIZwGhji-WxyB/s1526/IMG_2165.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1183" data-original-width="1526" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnn5CNuL316f2Vjzi01ReT9UOS1u4VRLW9eEEOkKh_mT1Rjq5-_jgDP0R-1nnJV1JhHB8VPPsUP1PMAqb-eGIaDlISYxrdoXX7J5MsJjoV78R5yQ9t9--5cC2DD1vE1Bmgb4s2Dni_Nk9Y1HZs7NtWy6lQq66KcTj12SX9pvruIZwGhji-WxyB/w640-h496/IMG_2165.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>Full details here <a href="https://neocalviniana.org/">https://neocalviniana.org/</a><p></p><p><br /></p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-38410498882074659462023-07-07T14:43:00.005+01:002023-07-07T15:09:35.507+01:00This Earthly Life Matters by A.A. Van Ruler - a review<p><i>This Earthly Life Matters: The Promise of Arnold A. van Ruler for Ecotheology</i></p><p>Arnold Van Ruler</p><p>Ernst M. Conradie (Editor), Dirk van Keulen (Introduction), Douglas G. Lawrie (Translator)</p><p>Pickwick Publications, 2023, 381 pp, hbk. </p><div><br /></div><p></p><p><a href="https://wipf-stock-us.imgix.net/covers/9781666764413.jpg?auto=format&w=298&dpr=2&q=20" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="533" height="400" src="https://wipf-stock-us.imgix.net/covers/9781666764413.jpg?auto=format&w=298&dpr=2&q=20" width="267" /></a></p>Arnold Albert Van Ruler (1908-1970), a former professor of dogmatics at the University of Utrecht, is not well-known in the English-speaking world. This is mainly because only a few of his works have been translated. Thus this volume is more than welcome.<p></p><p>Van Ruler's approach has been described as "creation theology" by W.H. Velema, and he himself has been called "a theologian of earthly reality" by L.J. Van den Brom. It is exciting to see this volume dedicated to Van Ruler's approach to ecotheology. His thinking was largely influenced by theocratic ideas and his involvement with the "Protestantse Unie", which aimed to promote the theocratic vision of P.J. Hoedemaker (1839-1910), a writer who greatly influenced Van Ruler, especially in his views on a State church. Although this volume only provides glimpses of Van Ruler's theocratic notions.</p><p>Dirk van Keulen, who provides an introduction and a brief biography in this volume, has edited Van Ruler's Collected Works in Dutch. The selected translations by Douglas G. Lawrie included in this volume cover various topics such as God, creation, providence, being human, sin, earthly life, and animal protection. These chosen topics highlight Van Ruler's significance for ecotheology.</p><p>Van Ruler's writings are not easy to read, and some of the selections in this volume consist mainly of bullet points. However, he does offer some insightful aphorisms. Here are a few examples:</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>God did not create me in order to get me down on my knees and to extend grace to me as a sinner.</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Creator is revealed in creation—that is the mystery that evokes worship.</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Not only Holy Scripture is the Word of God; the entire created reality is that too.</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Heaven is created reality. Just as much as the earth is.</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Our knowledge of God is never direct and unmediated. It is always mediated.</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Even when we question anthropologically—and question thoroughly—we automatically question theologically.</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the Creator ≠ creation</p><p>•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The world is indeed a “cosmos” but in the sense that it is a jewel, a bracelet on the arm of the Creator.</p><p>Conradie's essay in this volume provides an excellent overview of Van Ruler's approach. Conradie observes that Van Ruler's polemical intention is to affirm creation as good, even eschatologically, without the need to add or replace anything in creation. He emphasizes the importance of recognizing ourselves as creatures and the concept of re-creation. This notion of re-creation aligns with Herman Bavinck's understanding of restoration rather than repristination. Van Ruler's work can in some sense be seen as an extrapolation and eschatological radicalization of Bavinck's position. Van Keulen has described Van Ruler's approach as a radicalized reception of Bavinck's central thought that "grace does not abolish nature, but affirms and restores it."</p><p>Van Ruler's emphasis on re-creation and his strong doctrine of creation provides valuable insights for ecotheology. He firmly believes that the world was intentionally created by God and, therefore, belongs to God. Creation is not divine or demonic; it is a good thing that came into existence <i>ex nihilo</i>, from nothing. Van Ruler contrasts Christianity with paganism philosophy, noting that in Christianity, the world is not necessary but is good, while in paganism, the world is seen as necessary but not good.</p><p>In addition to his focus on creation, Van Ruler stresses the importance of eschatology. He stresses “God will not create a new world to put it in the place of the present world. God will renew this old world of ours and this renewed world will be the new world.”.</p><p>Overall, this volume serves as an excellent introduction to Van Ruler's work and provides valuable insights into a Christianity that not only affirms but embraces creation.</p><p></p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-6960473424627749912023-06-29T07:52:00.001+01:002023-06-29T07:52:15.892+01:00Findings 5 is now out<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAPFpT4s2g2an4srkXGCru25QUj1mnzZJe6LuiQITmy-122dXWafL-uoZnupI7FZioGGh6kgXNDBBn6aB8qeYfRvsV4Z1kM1JgPV4NcCpBI_JG-joRSG0E1qReSSH9JBFw3PCoZ8tVa8NPYCGfWWDfhpoIdJmQJoOfQRUpwH-y0sv3Nn7ieIrN/s1587/IMG_2154.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="1587" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAPFpT4s2g2an4srkXGCru25QUj1mnzZJe6LuiQITmy-122dXWafL-uoZnupI7FZioGGh6kgXNDBBn6aB8qeYfRvsV4Z1kM1JgPV4NcCpBI_JG-joRSG0E1qReSSH9JBFw3PCoZ8tVa8NPYCGfWWDfhpoIdJmQJoOfQRUpwH-y0sv3Nn7ieIrN/s320/IMG_2154.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px;">Findings 5 - June 2023 - now published.</span><p></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><div data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px;">Contents:<br /><br />Chris Gousmett. Editorial – Seeking Exemptions from Legislation<br /><br />Bruce Wearne. Reformational scholarship: current position and prospects<br /><br />Alan Cameron. Dooyeweerd and Feldenkrais on the Human Body<br /><br />Léonardo Balena and Ney Maranhão. Faith and sustainability: A Christian Contribution to the Issue of Environmental Preservation<br /><br />Maaike Eline Harmsen and Gijsbert van den Brink. The Great Filter and Space Exploration: A Dooyeweerdian Response<br /><br />Bruce Wearne. The Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea and the Chapters of Sociology’s 20th Century Story<br /><br />Chris van Haeften. The Riddle of Reality<br /><br /><a data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thumbwidthpress.net/product-page/findings-5-june-2023&source=gmail&ust=1688106554902000&usg=AOvVaw2-n57TYY6rovDDi_9o9LX1" href="https://www.thumbwidthpress.net/product-page/findings-5-june-2023" style="color: #4285f4; font-size: 1rem;" target="_blank">https://www.thumbwidthpress.<wbr></wbr>net/product-page/findings-5-<wbr></wbr>june-2023</a></div>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-52133395796249755782023-06-27T17:54:00.003+01:002023-06-29T08:47:12.380+01:00The Evangelical Imagination by Karen Swallow Prior<p><span face="Palatino-Roman" style="font-size: 13px; text-indent: 18px;"><i>The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis </i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/717V4bfsx+L._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="520" height="389" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/717V4bfsx+L._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman"> Karen Swallow Prior</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman">Hi, 304pp, Brazos, 2023 </span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman">ISBN 9781587435751</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman">Prior is a reader, writer, and professor of English and Christianity and culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. In this book she draws upon her evangelical background and her academic speciality, to examine evangelical sensibilities. She writes as a critical friend, and as an insider. As she puts it, “In a way, what follows in these pages is simply my testimony. It is a picture of the evangelical imagination as I have found it over the course of years of researching, studying, reading, worshiping, and living and grappling with my own imagination—what fills it and fuels it.”</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman">In many ways it is an iconoclastic book - in it she shows how evangelical culture has been shaped by Victorian values and ethos as much as it has by biblical ones. Drawing on her academic research she examines Victorian literature:</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px 0px 12px 36px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman">You will notice a pattern emerging from all this Victorian literature. You will see in both the texts and their surrounding historical contexts qualities strangely similar to many of the defining characteristics of modern American evangelical culture. And by seeing in that literature many of the values and beliefs prominent within American evangelicalism today, you might find yourself wondering whether some of the ideas that characterize today’s evangelical culture are Christian as much as they are Victorian.</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman">She provides an excellent critique, and one that deserves close attention. She ably exposes contemporary evangelicalism’s overemphasis on patriotism, self-improvement, achievement, marketing, business techniques, triumphalism, and consumerism. Two quotations will serve to illustrate:</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px 0px 12px 36px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman">Evangelicalism’s infatuation with secular notions of social progress and self-improvement is marked throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While evangelicals initially opposed nineteenth-century movements that emphasized the possibility that human effort could bring physical healing, mind cures, victory over sin—movements such as New Thought, the Keswick movement, and the Victorious Life—the influence of these popular teachings could not be entirely stemmed: therapeutic culture snaked its way into evangelicalism. Nineteenth-century revivalists such as D. L. Moody and Billy Sunday were among those whose teachings blended evangelicalism with notions of social progress and transformation through personal purity and piety. </span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman">And:</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px 0px 12px 36px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman">This triumphalist spirit of empire was cultivated on an individual level too. “Do great things for God!” was for a generation (or two) of evangelicals not just an encouragement but an expectation that became a mandate. One younger friend who grew up evangelical told me she had the sense that if she didn’t grow up to do something great or radical, then she would have failed as a Christian.</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman"></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman">Components of evangelicalism see examines include: Conversion, Testimony, Improvement, Sentimentality, Materiality, Domesticity, Empire, Reformation, and Rapture. For each one she shows how these are integral to evangelicalism and how each one has been shaped by the Victorian ethos. Her analysis is nuanced and profound. The literature she discusses includes work by well-known authors such as Dickens, Swift, Defoe, Bunyan, Alcott, Hardy along with the currently less popular works including </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded</span><span face="Palatino-Roman">, by Samuel Richardson. Works of “art” by Thomas Kinkade and Warner Sallman’s </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Head of Christ</span><span face="Palatino-Roman"> are also examined, both as examples of evangelical sentimentality.</span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman"></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman">In short, </span><span style="font-style: italic;">The Evangelical Imagination</span><span face="Palatino-Roman"> is an engaging, well-written, and thought-provoking read; it may disturb, but it will disturb those that need to be disturbed. Her main concern is that evangelicalism becomes more focused on Jesus and the scriptures rather than exemplify a Victorian ethos. </span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Contents<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Introduction: Victorians, Evangelicals, and the Invitation<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i>1. Made in His Image<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Imagination, Imaginaries, and Evangelicalisms<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i>2. Awakening<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mumford, MLK, Hurston, Hughes, and Other Poets<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i>3. Conversion<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Language, Dr. Pepper, and Ebenezer Scrooge<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i>4. Testimony<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Grace Abounding <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">and "Evangelically Speaking"<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i>5. Improvement<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Puritan Work Ethic,</i> Paradise Lost<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and the Price of Progress<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i>6. Sentimentality<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sweet Jesus, Uncle Tom, and Public Urination<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i>7. Materiality<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus in the Window, the Virgin Mary on Grilled Cheese, Gingerbread Houses, and the Sacramentality of Church Space<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i>8. Domesticity<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Angels and Castles and Prostitutes, Oh My!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i>9. Empire<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">"The White Man's Burden," His Man Friday, the Jesus Nobody Knows, and What Johnny Cash Really Knew<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i>10. Reformation<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pardon Me, Reckoning or Rip Van Winkle?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i>11. Rapture<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Or How a Thief Came in the Night but Left My Chick Tracts Behind</i></p><p style="font-family: Palatino; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 18px;"><span face="Palatino-Roman"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span></p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-36640207806663060782023-04-27T10:28:00.004+01:002023-04-27T10:28:31.492+01:00Concept/mind maps of Bavinck's Personality & Worldview<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Bavinck's Personality and Worldview<p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicrn_zunBF1qeTyln1N0tJQ_z4UmJ1NTxvATR7etoLCwJimHFcq82ZXcrru2Nv2Ux8f4mO2FYf3DME7FhFkEPWB1juwlsAe72kejxsDHnWqTZKX01xXw2LdGFrSILJcwhScEOkS4m8V2-xcEhX460YMDetPWUOiyT06Hjpc7AKHe6-VSZXsw/s853/110EC49A-A3AE-49F2-89B3-282C53DD4FB7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="547" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicrn_zunBF1qeTyln1N0tJQ_z4UmJ1NTxvATR7etoLCwJimHFcq82ZXcrru2Nv2Ux8f4mO2FYf3DME7FhFkEPWB1juwlsAe72kejxsDHnWqTZKX01xXw2LdGFrSILJcwhScEOkS4m8V2-xcEhX460YMDetPWUOiyT06Hjpc7AKHe6-VSZXsw/s320/110EC49A-A3AE-49F2-89B3-282C53DD4FB7.jpeg" width="205" /></a></i></div><i><br /> Personality & Worldview</i><p></p><p>J. H. Bavinck</p><p>Translated by James Eglinton</p><p>208pp, hbk, </p><p>Crossway Books</p><p>ISBN: 978-1-4335-8483-1</p><p><br /></p><p>J.H. Bavinck (1895–1964) was the nephew of Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) and a professor of missiology at Kampen Theological School and the Free University of Amsterdam. He had also been a pastor and missionary in Indonesia, so, he was no armchair missiologist. In this book, a translation of Bavinck’s 1928 book <i>Persoonlijkheid en wereldbeschouwing</i>. This was originally a set of lectures for engineering students. The book is thus not overly technical, it is clear, accessible, and straightforward in its approach.</p><p>"Worldview" is a concept that is starting to go out of fashion. Keller, in his Foreword, notes some key reasons for this - particularly in North America; it is seen as being: </p><p>Individualistic</p><p>Rationalistic</p><p>Simplistic </p><p>Triumphalistic</p><p>To this, we could add that it has recently lost favour due to concerns about its ambiguity, and connection to Western-centric and imperialist methods of analysing culture and society. Bavinck’s approach provides an important correction to these misconceptions regarding worldviews, not least because Bavinck was fully acquainted with East Asian culture as a pastor. </p><p>By "personality", Bavinck means “an organized soul that has come to consciousness of itself.” </p><p>One of Bavinck’s main theses is the intriguing distinction he makes between a worldview and a worldvision. He maintains that we all have a worldvision but only a few move to a worldview. </p><p>A person without a worldview is a person without a firm foundation, without a compass, without a vista. He may have a worldvision; he might live, for example, as though there are no norms. But such a worldvision proceeds from himself and is rooted in his nature. He cannot pull himself upward on it, and with it he always remains on the same plane. A person with a worldview, in all cases, has light, sees more widely, more broadly, more deeply. And however much deeper and more objective that worldview is, the more it gives him stability to leave this maze of subjective inclinations and climb up to the height of the life that is grounded in the truth.</p><p> Unfortunately, this insight is left largely undeveloped - it would be interesting to trace what mileage this distinction had in Bavinck’s further writings. </p><p>In exploring the relationship between personality and worldview, he notes two positions that must be guarded against: that they are one and that they are utterly different.</p><p>In chapter 3 especially, we can see in Bavinck two important neo-Calvinist themes: the distinction between creator and creation, and a disdain for dualism. He makes some important points regarding dualism: it disjoints personality, it means that salvation is only possible through world flight and that it leads to mysticism and asceticism.</p><p>Chapter 4 provides some fascinating insights into the distinction between Eastern and Westen thinking and an overview of the impact of the Renaissance on British empiricism particularly. Here he provides a devastating critique of the poverty of empiricism in that it devours itself.</p><p>Chapter 5 exposes the problems with rationalism, Descartes, and Spinoza. He makes the interesting point that pantheism is a presupposition of rationalism: “Pantheism is not the conclusion of rationalism, but it is its presupposition. Reason only has such power when it is itself god.” </p><p>Chapters 4 and 5 show that neither empiricism nor rationalism have explored the depths of personality.</p><p>Kant attempted to reconcile empiricism and rationalism, but as Chapter 6 shows, this project was unsuccessful. </p><p>Mysticism, a topic Bavinck studied for his doctorate and while he was in Java, comes under scrutiny in Chapter 7. As he observes, mysticism is difficult to define as it is not a single worldview. It is an emphasis on the being of God, and yet he is a formless and utterly other divinity. There is no comfort or salvation in such a god. It results in self-withdrawal from life and groping after eternity. He notes that Christian mysticism is differently focused and maintains the boundary between God and creation.</p><p>The final Chapter provides an overview of the main themes. Most people live as if there is no worldview, although it is there in seed form, worldview is the revelation of the personality, although there is often tension between the two. We all need a worldview, as it provides norms, direction, and unity in living. He contrasts two common Western worldviews, atheistic materialism and positive Christianity. Atheistic materialism is never accepted unreservedly, and Christianity, a relationship with the living God, depends not on us but on revelation.</p><p>This book is certainly well worth buying. The introduction by Eglington alone is worth the price of the book. </p><p><br /></p><p>Foreword by Timothy Keller</p><p>Acknowledgments</p><p>Editor’s Introduction</p><p>Chapter 1: The Struggle for a Worldview</p><p>Chapter 2: The Essence of Personality</p><p>Chapter 3: The Problem of Unity</p><p>Chapter 4: Passive Knowing</p><p>Chapter 5: The Power of Reason</p><p>Chapter 6: The Reaction of the Conscience</p><p>Chapter 7: Mysticism and Revelation</p><p>Chapter 8: Personality and Worldview</p><p>General Index</p><p>Scripture Index</p><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-5992468213127985312023-02-18T12:33:00.003+00:002023-02-18T12:33:32.478+00:00Abraham Kuyper and some of his critics<p> My paper looking at some of Kuyper's critics has now been published:</p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Noto Sans", -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Bishop, S. (2023). Abraham Kuyper and some of his Critics. </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Noto Sans", -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Tydskrif Vir Christelike Wetenskap | Journal for Christian Scholarship</i><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Noto Sans", -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Noto Sans", -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">58</i><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Noto Sans", -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">(3&4), 57 - 93. Retrieved from <a href="https://pubs.ufs.ac.za/index.php/tcw/article/view/785">https://pubs.ufs.ac.za/index.php/tcw/article/view/785</a></span></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Noto Sans", -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjx_n1JiwURm9SEl_w4GurSncv0fSq-SwNbiyb7X0Pd0HlO7_d8Jc7uUL1BAMuiOPkBMjnhb-SrTtjGZxyHvwu_IyhVRWnk1ANoq-iysR3aXwIIoT-vnz3PUZr9PlKT6OLxPQ-Ah6F_GH77qT6l4nw5r0n6QqbsQRko0qV0GMgSb1LQHqwYEA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1282" data-original-width="1174" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjx_n1JiwURm9SEl_w4GurSncv0fSq-SwNbiyb7X0Pd0HlO7_d8Jc7uUL1BAMuiOPkBMjnhb-SrTtjGZxyHvwu_IyhVRWnk1ANoq-iysR3aXwIIoT-vnz3PUZr9PlKT6OLxPQ-Ah6F_GH77qT6l4nw5r0n6QqbsQRko0qV0GMgSb1LQHqwYEA=w587-h640" width="587" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-88970123300615504512023-02-01T07:58:00.007+00:002023-02-01T07:58:56.747+00:00Findings 4 is out<p> <i>Findings</i> 4 has now been published - Theme issue on "Theology." </p><p>Available free (PDF) to download from <a href="https://www.thumbwidthpress.net/ ">https://www.thumbwidthpress.net/ </a></p><p>Go to "Shop" to select items.</p><p><br /></p><p>Contents:</p><p>Kerry Hollingsworth: H Evan Runner – The heart of his vision</p><p>Chris Gousmett: What is theology?</p><p>Jim Skillen: What is public theology?</p><p>Raymundo Mendiola: Are we all theologians? Definition and contours of theology</p><p>D F M Strauss: How can we talk scientifically about God?</p><p>O. C. Broek Roelofs: Popma’s Philosophical Approach to Theology</p><p>Chris van Haeften: Divine reality</p><p>Alida Leni Sewell: Paul at Athens: An Examination of His Areopagus Address in the Light of its Historical and Philosophical Background</p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10641870.post-52990482866903661012023-01-26T09:36:00.001+00:002023-01-26T09:36:08.723+00:00A Kuyper Book Club - Reading through Pro Rege 3<p style="text-align: center;"> KUYPER BOOK CLUB! Kuyper's <i>Pro Rege</i> Vol. 3 </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent.fbhx4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/324738045_560124966010521_6467095586321562314_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=D0TL94XI_f8AX8wEsLa&_nc_ht=scontent.fbhx4-1.fna&oh=00_AfD39d5SnxZAFIjvKALEcPYWXPL-ZbTAfL5Ph0ZxkEhfvQ&oe=63D70B3A" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://scontent.fbhx4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/324738045_560124966010521_6467095586321562314_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=D0TL94XI_f8AX8wEsLa&_nc_ht=scontent.fbhx4-1.fna&oh=00_AfD39d5SnxZAFIjvKALEcPYWXPL-ZbTAfL5Ph0ZxkEhfvQ&oe=63D70B3A" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>A group are going to read Kuyper's <i>Pro Rege </i>Vol. 3 over the next 6 months (starting Feb). </p><p>Jason of the Laymen's Lounge, has created a Facebook Group so we can throw up quotes, thoughts, questions, etc.</p><p>To join use this QR code</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4yvJ6NnqQOAgsk8UC6th-K4qFz7kmDyDsOcaIETNq7E2cOgGuiqtrPKHKAFw1gUU0G3ChrSjpCRCYDMw3ahkhkaej5OyXPzGH_KyxYhF5WOKbuEQ0DW3eB_9SS1R2VOx_g6DLGYaex3Dp4VbvpWeXp_W-M1qc3Z6HRYIiNqYQvKEHQ-zMTw/s1110/327433185_710032957227240_3380171360995914039_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="1110" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4yvJ6NnqQOAgsk8UC6th-K4qFz7kmDyDsOcaIETNq7E2cOgGuiqtrPKHKAFw1gUU0G3ChrSjpCRCYDMw3ahkhkaej5OyXPzGH_KyxYhF5WOKbuEQ0DW3eB_9SS1R2VOx_g6DLGYaex3Dp4VbvpWeXp_W-M1qc3Z6HRYIiNqYQvKEHQ-zMTw/s320/327433185_710032957227240_3380171360995914039_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The provisional reading plan is:</p><p>Feb. 1-5: pp. 1-18</p><p>Feb. 6-12: pp. 19-43</p><p>Feb. 1319: pp. 44-68</p><p>Feb. 20-26: pp. 69-94</p><p>Feb. 27-Mar. 5: pp. 95-119</p><p>Mar. 6-12: pp. 120-143</p><p>Mar. 13-19: pp. 144-167</p><p>Mar. 20-26: pp. 168-186</p><p>Mar. 27-April 2: pp. 187-215</p><p>April 3-9: pp. 216-241</p><p>April 10-16: pp. 242-270</p><p>April 17-23: pp. 271-288</p><p>April 24-30: pp. 289-315</p><p>May 1-7: pp. 316-340</p><p>May 8-14: pp. 341-364</p><p>May 15-21: pp. 365-380</p><p>May 22-28: pp. 381-406</p><p>May 29-June 4: pp. 407-431</p><p>June 5-11: pp. 432-449</p><p>June 12-18: pp. 450-467</p><p>June 19-25: pp. 468-475</p><p>June 26-July 2: pp. 479-480</p>stevebishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01485378930192829175noreply@blogger.com0