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Saturday, 11 October 2014

Calvin Seerveld's writings 2009-2014

A list of Calvin Seerveld's writings from 1995-200 appeared here.

2009

The damages of a Christian worldview In After Worldview ed. J. Matthew Bonzo and Michael Stevens. Sioux Center, Iowa: Dordt College Press.

Cities as a place for public artwork: a glocal approach. In Goheen, M.W. & Glanville, E.G., eds. The gospel and globalisation: exploring the religious roots of a globalised world. Vancouver: Regent College Publishing & Geneva Society. p. 229-324.

How should Christians be stewards of art? A response to Nathan Jacobs. Markets and Morality 12(2): 377-385.

http://www.marketsandmorality.com/index.php/mandm/article/viewFile/767/pdf

How should Christians be stewards of art? A surresponse to Nathan Jacobs. Markets and Morality 12(2): 393-398.

http://www.marketsandmorality.com/index.php/mandm/article/viewFile/767/pdf

Redemptive grit: the ordinary artistry of Gerald Folkerts. Image, 63 (Summer): 51-60.

Categories for Art Historical Methodology: Antoine Watteau (Les Fetes Venitiennes). In Art as Spiritual Perception. Essays in honor of E. John Walford, edited by James Romaine (Wheaton: Crossway, 2012), 165-178.

2010

A Christian mission of glocal culture within riven societies in God’s world. Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship 75(1):115-134. doi: 10.4102/koers.v75i1.75

http://www.koersjournal.org.za/index.php/koers/article/view/844/955

Getting into Martin Luther's groove. Reformed Worship 95 (March): 20-21.

2012

Why we need to learn to cry in Church: reclaiming the Psalms of Lament. In Forgotten Songs: Reclaiming the Psalms for Christian Worship, eds. C. Richard Wells & Ray Van Neste. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group.

Footprints in the snow. Comment (March)

Getting ready for church. The Banner 147 September):8 http://www.thebanner.org/departments/2012/08/getting-ready-for-church

Reading the Bible like a grown-up child. Comment (November)

2013

Overlooked Herder, and the Performative Nature of The Greatest Song as Biblical Wisdom Literature. Southeastern Theological Review 4(2) 197-222.

The pros of Christian organizations. Comment (Spring)

2014

Cultural Education and History Writing: Sundry writings and occasional lectures, edited by John H. Kok. Sioux Center, IA: Dordt College Press, 2014. 388 pages

Introductions by Doug Blomberg and Gideon Strauss

Reformational Christian Philosophy and Christian College Education

Making the Most of College: Studying Ourselves to Life or to Death?

Why Should a University Exist?

Through the Waters: Christian schooling as a city of refuge

The Song of Moses and the Lamb: The joke of A.R.S.S. education

The Damages of a Christian Worldview

Babel, Pentecost, Glossolalia, and Philoxenia: No language is foreign to God

Jubilee on the Job

Concluding Theses on Teaching Philosophy in the North American Undergraduate College

A Final Lecture at Trinity Christian College

Thinking Deeply About Our Faith

Dooyeweerd’s Contribution to the Historiography of Philosophy

Dooyeweerd’s Idea of “Historical Development”: Christian respect for cultural diversity

Footprints in the Snow

The Pedagogical Strength of a Christian Methodology in Philosophical Historiography

Early Kant and a Rococo Spirit: Setting for The Critique of Judgment

“Mythologizing Philosophy” as Historiographic Category

Redemptive Art in Society: Sundry writings and occasional lectures, edited by John H. Kok. Sioux Center, IA: Dordt College Press, 2014. 310 pages

Introduction

“Prophetic Shalom in Theatrum Dei” by Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin

The Necessity of Christian Public Artistry

On Identity and Aesthetic Voice of the Culturally Displaced

From Ghost Town to Tent City: Artist community facing Babylon and the city of godGod’s Gift of Theatre in our Hands

Professional Giveaway Theatre in Babylon: A christian vocation

Necessary Art in Africa: A christian perspective

Turning Human Dignity Upside Down

The Challenge to be Imaginative Salt as Artists in God’s World

Cities as a Place for Public Artwork: A global approach

How Should Christians Be Stewards of Art?

For the Next Generation of Christian Writers of Literature

A Note on Poetry

A Review: Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste

A Review: A Broken Beauty

Art History Revisited: Sundry writings and occasional lectures, edited by John H. Kok. Sioux Center, IA: Dordt College Press, 2014. 308 pages

Introductions by Dirk van den Berg and Henry Luttikhuizen

Biblical Wisdom underneath Vollenhoven’s Categories for Philosophical Historiography

Vollenhoven’s Legacy for Art Historiography

Towards a Cartographic Methodology for Art Historiography

Antiquity Transumed and the Reformational Tradition: Which Antiquity is Transumed–How and Why?

Methodological Notes for Assessing What Happened 1764–1831 in the History of Aesthetics

The Moment of Truth and Evidence of Sterility within Neoclassical Art and Aesthetic Theory of the Later Enlightenment

Idealistic Philosophy in Checkmate: Neoclassical and Romantic Artistic Policy

Badt and Dittmann: Art Historiographic Testing of Heidegger’s Aesthetics

Telltale Statues in Watteau’s Painting

God’s Ordinance for Artistry and Hogarth’s “wanton chace”

Canonic Art: Pregnant dilemmas in the theory and practice of Anton Raphael Mengs

No Endangered Species: An Introduction to the wood engraving artistry of Peter S. Smith

Redemptive Grit: The ordinary artistry of Gerald Folkerts

Book Review: A. L. Rees and F. Borzello’s The NEW Art History

List of illustrations

Index

Cultural Problems in Western Society: Sundry writings and occasional lectures, edited by John H. Kok. Sioux Center, IA: Dordt College Press, 2014. 212 pages

Introduction

“My Sensibility is European…” by Barbara Carvill

Minorities and Xenophilia

Beyond Tolerance to Tough Love

Does the World Ask Europe to Sacrifice Its Beautiful Art?

Imaginative Reenchantment of Society in God’s World: A redemptive artistic task in the European Union

Human Multiculturality: Invitation to enriched identities

From Systemic Suppression of Women to Asymmetrical Gender Mutuality: An historical and systematic introduction

Cultural Dialogue as Human Resource for the Integration of Europe—and what about the development of cities?

Putting Humpty-Dumpty Back Together Again: The problem of artists earning a livelihood in society

Normative Aesthetics: Sundry writings and occasional lectures, edited by John H. Kok. Sioux Center, IA: Dordt College Press, 2013. 320 pages.

Introduction: "(Un)Timely Voyage: Calvin Seerveld’s Normative Aesthetics" by Lambert Zuidervaart

The Halo of Human Imaginativity

Imaginativity

Dooyeweerd’s Legacy for Aesthetics: Modal law theory

Joy, Style, and Aesthetic Imperatives, with the Biblical Meaning of Clothes and Games in the Christian Life

Ordinary Aesthetic Life: Humor, tastes and “taking a break”

Both More and Less Than a Matter of Taste

Christian Aesthetic Bread for the World

The Place for Imaginative Grit and Everlasting Art in God’s World

The Relation of the Arts to the Presentation of Truth

A Turnabout in Aesthetics to Understanding

Philosophical Aesthetics at Home with the Lord: an untimely valedictory

A Review: Kant’s Kunsttheorie

A Review: Truth and Method

Biblical Studies and Wisdom for Living: Sundry Writings and Occasional Lectures, edited by John H. Kok. Sioux Center, IA: Dordt College Press, 2014

446pp.

Introductions by Craig Bartholomew and by Peter S. Smith

Hearing God’s Narrative about “the Way” of shalom

Reading and Hearing the Psalms: The Gut of the Bible

Psalms are to be Heard Everywhere

Five Psalms: For the American Guild of Organists

a. Psalm 19: Celebrating the good news of God’s creational ordinances and creatural glossolalia

b. David Psalm 30: A song written for a consecration service of the house of God

c. Psalm 96: A song that never gets old is new

d. Isaiah 61:1–4, 8–9, 11: The most human of these is hope

e. Revelation 18:21–19:8: Hip-hop millennial culture and Hallelujah!

Pain Is a Four-Letter Word: A congregational lament

Proverbs 10:1–22: From Poetic Paragraphs to Preaching

Celebrate the Resourceful Woman (Proverbs 31)

Herder’s Revolutionary Hermeneutic and Aesthetic Theory: The Import of Herder’s Hermeneutics for Text Performance of The Greatest Song

Needed: Biblical Recovery of Human Corporeality and Historical Institutionality in God’s World

The Gift and Distraction of Pleasure

The Smell of your School: A letter of reference?

A Christian School Song for Parents and Teachers

Ways-of-life and becoming elderly wise

Import of Biblical Wisdom Literature for a Conception of Artistic Truth

A Modest Proposal for Reforming the Christian Reformed Church in North America

A Snake and Dove Policy for Redeemer Graduates

Graduating to Glocal Martyrdom

Reformed Institutions in Transformation

Book Review: Reading Ecclesiastes: Old Testament Exegesis and Hermeneutical Theory

Carlos Martínez Mime Actor

A Worship Service Where Two People Walked Out

Say “Amen!” Somebody: On gospel singing and joyful worship

Longing to Lament: A conversation between Michael Card and Calvin Seerveld

The Rule of God

Long-range mercy for Africa: The CRC in Sierra Leone

We are Not Pilgrims: We are called to build tent cities in God’s world

Bastards or Sons of God?

Operation Fish and Bread for the Ontario Government

The Tender, Tough Mystery of (Married) Love

“The Rare Gift of a Friend”A Morning Weather Hymn

Reading the Bible like a Grown-Up Child

Epilogue: A personal testimony

Tuesday, 7 October 2014

By Vollenhoven in English

A full bibliography of work by Vollenhoven up to 1982 appeared in

Kok, J.H. 1992. Vollenhoven: His Early Development. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press. pp. 363-382.

The Lonely Vollenhovian

Here's a new blog that looks like it will be a no-brainer for the RSS feed: The Lonely Vollenhovian

The blogger - no name or details are given - promises to blog about his PhD on relating reformational philosophy to the science-religion debate.

Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Kuyperania September 2014

Dan Jesse at Emerging Scholars' Blog in a series of posts has been taking a look at Mouw's Abraham Kuyper

Bert de Vries 2014. What Kuyper saw and thought: Abraham Kuyper’s visit to the Holy Land. The Bavick Review 5:8-42.

"Bob on Books" Review of Bratt's Abraham Kuyper

To read this biography of Kuyper is to understand the intellectual foundations of much of the Reformed and Neo-Reformed movement in this country. His thought has influenced figures like Nicholas Wolterstorff and Albert Wolters in philosophy, Timothy Keller in preaching, and James Skillen in politics and public life. (See my review of Skillen’sThe Good of Politics as an example of Kuyperian thought.) It is also a narrative of one who was both an accomplished thinker and a skilled politician. For Christians interested in political life, whether you agree with Kuyper’s theology or not, this is an excellent study of Christian political engagement.

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

On Vollenhoven: a bibliography

A list of books and articles on D. H. Th. Vollenhoven

A more up-to-date version is available here.

Bril, K.A., H. Hart, J. Klapwijk (eds.). 1973. The Idea of a Christian Philosophy: Essays in Honour of D. H. Th. Vollenhoven. Wedge: Toronto.

Bril, K.A. 1973. A selected and annotated bibliography of D. H. Th. Vollenhoven. Philosophia Reformata 38: 212-222.

Bril, K.A. 1995. A comparison between Dooyeweerd and Vollenhoven on the historiography of philosophy. Philosophia Reformata 60:2.

Bril, K.A. 2005. Vollenhoven’s problem-historical method; introduction and explorations. (Transl. by Vulderink, R.W.) Sioux Center, Iowa: Dordt College Press.

Friesen, J.G. 'Monism, dualism, nondualism: a problem with Vollenhoven's problem-historical method'.

Griffioen, S. 2013. Treasure hunting in Vollenhoven. Paper delivered at the School of Philosophy, Potchefstroom Campus, North-West University on 24 August 2013.

Ive, J. 2012. A critically comparative Kuyperian analysis and in trinitarian perichoretic reconstruction of the reformational philosophies of Dirk H.T. Vollenhoven and Herman Dooyeweerd. Ph.D. thesis. London: King’s College.

Ive, Jeremy 2023. “Dooyeweerd and Vollenhoven: What They Share, How They Differ, and How They Complement One Another,” in Discovering Dooyeweerd ed. D.F.M. Strauss (Jordan Station, Ont: Paideia Press), 501–511.

Ive, J. 2015. The Contribution and Philosophical Development of the Reformational Philosopher, Dirk H. Th. Vollenhoven. Philosophia Reformata 80(2): 159–177.

Kampof, E.J. The triunity of life: on the unity of the Vollenhovian project. ICS, Toronto MPhil.

Kok, J.H. 1988. Vollenhoven and scriptural philosophy. Philosophia Reformata 53(2): 101-142.

Kok, J.H. 1992. Vollenhoven: his early development. Sioux Center, Iowa: Dordt College Press.

Runner, H. Evan. 1972. Abraham Kuyper’s influence on Dr Vollenhoven. Perspective Newsletter 6: 7-10.

Runner, H. Evan. 1972. Vollenhoven celebrates his eightieth birthday. Perspective Newsletter (Dec).

Seerveld, C.G. 1973. Biblical wisdom underneath Vollenhoven’s categories for philosophical historiography. Philosophia Reformata, 38:127-143.

Seerveld, C.G. 1975. The pedagogical strength of a Christian methodology in philosophical historiography. Koers 40:4-6.

Seerveld, C. 1980. Towards a cartographic methodology for art historiography. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 39:2.

Seerveld, C.G. 1993. Vollenhoven’s legacy for art historiography. Philosophia Reformata, 58:49-79.

Taljaard, J.A.L. 1978. In memoriam prof. D.H.Th Vollenhoven: 01/11/1892-06/06/1978. Perspectief, 17(3 & 4):1-4, Sept.

Tol, A. 1978. In memoriam: Dirk Hendrik Theodor Vollenhoven. Philosophia Reformata, 43:93-100.

Tol, A. 1979. ‘Foreword’ in D.H.Th. Vollenhoven: Ancient philosophical conceptions in problem-historical lay-out, 6th Century B.C. – 6th Century A.D. Amsterdam: Filosofisch Instituut, Vrije Universiteit.

Tol, A. 1995. Time and change in Vollenhoven. Philosophia Reformata 60:99-120.

Tol, A. 2007. Vollenhoven on Early Classical Antiquity. In Sweetman, R. (ed.). In the Phrygian Mode; Neo-Calvinism. Antiquity and the lamentations of Reformational Philosophy. Toronto: ICS/ Lanham: Univ. Press of America, pp. 127-160.

Tol, A. 2010. Philosophy in the making; D.H.Th. Vollenhoven and the emergence of Reformed Philosophy. Sioux Center, Iowa: Dordt College Press.

Tol, A. 2011. Reformational philosophy in the making. Philosophia Reformata, 76:187-214.

Tol, A. 2011. Vollenhoven and Dooyeweerd: their emerging difference. Unpublished paper delivered at the International Symposium of the Association for Christian Philosophy, Amsterdam, 16-19 August 2011.

Tol, A. 2012. Vollenhoven on philosophy, worldview and religion. Philosophia Reformata, 77:

Tol, A. 2013. Vollenhoven, Dirk Hendrik Theodoor. Wikipedia http://en/Wikipedia.org/wiki/D.H.Th.Vollenhoven

van der Walt. B.J. 1978. Historiography of philosophy: the consistent problem-historic method. In Heartbeat. Potchefstroom: IRS.

van der Walt, B.J. 1982-83. The consistent problem-historical method of philosophical historiography. Anakainosis, 5 (2 and 3): 1-21.

van der Walt, B.J. 2006. The philosophy of D. H. Th. Vollenhoven (1892-1978), with special reference to his historiography of philosophy. Tydskrif vir Christelike Wetenskap 42(1-2): 35-39.

van der walt, B.J. 2014. At the cradle of a Christian philosophy. Potchefstroom: ICCA.

van der walt, B.J. 2014. Constancy and Change: historical types and trends in the passion of the western mind. Potchefstroom: ICCA.

Wolters, A.M. 1979. On Vollenhoven’s problem-historical method. In Kraay, J. & Tol, A. (eds.). Hearing and doing; philosophical essays dedicated to H.Evan Runner. Toronto: Wedge Pub. Foundation. pp. 231-262.

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

British Calvinists: John Brine (1703-1765)

John Brine (1703-1765) was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire. He was converted under the preaching of John Gill. He was baptised by Thomas Wallis and became a member of the Little Meeting congregation.

He began a preaching ministry and married Anne, the daughter of John Moore the pastor of a congregation in Northampton. Brine then became the pastor of a Particular Baptist congregation in Queen's Rd, Coventry. In 1730 he moved to London to be the pastor at Curriers' Hall, Cripplegate. Brine remained there until his death in 1765.

Previous minsters at Currier's Hall included: Hanserd Knollys, David Crossley (from 1705-1721), John Skepp (from 1712-1721), William Morton (from 1722-1730) and then Brine (from 1730-1265).

Robert Oliver maintains was hyper-Calvinist in theology, but this is disputed by George Ella. He was supralapsarian and had been described by some as an antinomian.

He is buried in Burnhill Fields.

Some of his writings are available here: http://www.prdl.org/author_view.php?a_id=1998