Mark Roques down under: "Inspiring disciples and Christian Education"

2013 CSA Conference Day 1 Session 3 (stream) with Mark Roques from Church Media Resource on Vimeo.

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The high price of materialism

An interesting take on materialism:

 

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WYSOCS: The Transforming Vision workshops

Outline We’ll meet over seven Monday evenings, from 7.30–9.30pm:

23 Sep: Creation, Cosmos and Covenant: what is the world for? Discussion led by Gareth Jones.
7 Oct: Image, Office and Culture: creation talks! Is all the world a stage, or does history mean something?
21 Oct: Structure or Direction: what does sin pervert in creation? The heart, corruption and common grace. Richard Gunton offers a scientist’s perspective.
4 Nov: Law & Grace; Time & Eternity; Body & Soul; Earth & Heaven: are we wedded to dualisms? How does grace stand in relation to nature – above, against, alongside?
18 Nov: Gospel and Kingdom: any good news before Easter? Is atonement all we preach? Anthony Smith and Eline van Asperen share thoughts on incarnating the gospel.
2 Dec: The Church – and the people of God in society: what is Church for? Is there a Christian life outside it?
16 Dec: Vocation, Validation and Scholarship: what next? What is God’s general revelation? How do we find the manifold wisdom woven into creation? Mark Roques introduces Dooyeweerd's modal framework. Programme subject to modification.

Venue and booking The course will be held at Outwood House, Outwood Lane, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 4HR (see www.wysocs.org.uk/contact-directions.php). Places are limited, so advance booking is advised. The whole course costs £35 if paid at or before the first session, or £8 per session thereafter (if any places remain). Please register to attend at www.wysocs.org.uk/booking.
 For enquiries, fill in the form at www.wysocs.org.uk/contact.php or ring 0113 258 1569.

Kloosterman on Kuyper's Institution : Organism ~ Lamp : Light

Nelson Kloosterman offers another excellent insight from Abraham Kuyper's Common Grace:

Consider this formula:

Institution : Organism ~ Lamp : Light 

That formula contains the secret to the gospel’s public influence.

Interestingly, in volume 2, chapter 35, of Common Grace, Kuyper explains this formula as the cornerstone of his critique of the concept of the national church, which—because it sees itself as coterminous with the Christian gospel—is compelled to place under the aegis of the church as institution any cultural activity that is to be transformed by the gospel. Activities like science, art, education, politics, economics, etc. In short, because it fails to distinguish church from nation, the national church ends up incorporating the world into the church.

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Maps of the other chapters are available:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2

Full book details here.

A TV that tells the truth?

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Rob Warner Reiniventing English Evangelicalism

Reinventing English Evangelicalism, 1966-2001.

A Theological and Sociological Study.

Rob Warner

Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2007

ISBN 978-1-84227-570-2

Pbk, xviv +284, £19.99

This book, as the subtitle suggests, is a theological and sociological examination of English evangelicalism in the last three or so decades of the last millennium. Warner writes as an observer-participant, but as one that seems to be increasingly disaffected.

This is a big movements and men (there is a distinct lack of women) view of evangelicalism that has been surveyed. Warner seems to delight in using obscure terms and inventing jargon, for example we have Calverism and Stottian. And we have "Evangelicals' propensity for missiological pragmatism leads to cognitive bargaining within the prevailing culture" and an "interstitial formulation within an ineluctably bifurcatory tradition". These belie its origins as a PhD thesis. Several times he mentions loosening grip of 'twentieth century conservative calvinistic hegemony', I was never aware the Calvinism had England in its grip in the twentieth century. The assertion is never backed up with evidence.

Part One looks at the big "movements"; he covers the Evangelical Alliance, Spring Harvest, the Alpha course, Christian magazines and the decade of Evangelism. All these have a chapter devoted to them. He draws upon extensive interviews - but these are anonymous and so its difficult to know the position and rank of the interviewees in evangelicalism and how much of a view from the pew we are getting. It seems to be very much a top-down view that we are provided with. The common theme in most of these "movements is a vision inflation: they all seem to promise much more that they factually delivered.

Part Two concentrates on pan-evangelical bases of faith. From early EA formulations through the evangelical Anglican bases at Keele (1967) and Nottingham (1977) to the Evangelical Alliance's "interstitial formulation" of 2005. The issue of penal substitution, universalism and the inerrancy/ infallibility of the Bible all come to the fore in these discussions.

Although the scope is English evangelicalism the shadow of the States is felt - particularly through the issue of inerrancy (cf Chicago Statement of 1978).

1966 was the year of the Lloyd Jones-Stott disagreement over evangelical separatism. The Warner seems to maintain evangelical differences were mainly ecclesiastical, but by the end of 1990s these disagreements had widened and there was a split (bifurcation) between the entrepreneurial conversionist/ activist pole and a more conservative biblicist/ crucicentric pole, the differences now included revelation, soteriology, social justice, the role of women and the interface of the gospel and culture. The hegemony had fractured.

This is an important book. It presents a progressive evangelical's view of evangelicalism; one that needs to be taken seriously. We should all take to heart the tendency towards "vision inflation".


Contents

Foreword – David Bebbington

Introduction: A Resurgent, Contested Tradition

PART ONE: THE CONVERSIONIST-ACTIVIST AXIS:
 Late modern charismatic entrepreneurialism in the context of church decline

1. Calverism and the Evangelical Alliance 1982-2001
2. Spring Harvest :A Case Study in Evangelical Exceptionalism
3. Evangelical Trends: Late-Onset Decline
4. Deconstructing the Decade of Evangelism
5. Alpha: A Second Case Study in Evangelical Exceptionalism
6. Sociological Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Evangelicals

PART TWO: THE BIBLCIST-CRUCICENTRIC AXIS:
 From pre-critical inclusivity to the self-attenuated calvinistic hegemony, and the subsequent emergence of post- and neo-conservatism, with bifurcatory prospects

 7. Foundations of Evangelical Ecumenism, 1846-1912
 8. EA-1970 and the Conservatice Undertow, 1928-1981
 9. Emergent Openness, 1967-1977
10. The Conservative Counter-Trend, 1978-1999
11. Progressive Evangelicals: The Post-Conservative Emergence, 1996-2000

Conclusion: Conflictual Identities: The Dynamics and Trajectories of Evangelical Convictions

Bennie van der Walt: An expert in propagating the all-encompassing implications of the Christian world- and life view

Here is a review by Danie Strauss of Steve Bishop (ed.) The First Gleam of Dawn: Reformational Studies - A Bennie van der Walt Reader. Potchefstroom: ICCA, 2011.
Copies of the book can be obtained by Bennie van der Walt [benniejvanderwalt gmail.com]. 

This new work was edited by Steve Bishop who also wrote the introduction to it, amended by an interview with Bennie van der Walt also conducted by the editor. These two pieces pave the way for an appreciation of the context and aim of the previously written book of Van der Walt. 

I am privileged to know Bennie since December 1969 when I met him for the first time on a cold Amsterdam winter day. Ever since it is good to have in Bennie a serious and honest reformational philosopher who is capable of disseminating in a constructive and penetrating way the basic contours of a Christian life- and worldview. Throughout his life Bennie has distinguished himself as a gifted scholar capable to articulate our reformational legacy in an understandable and profound way. This new work is no exception.

A brief look at the table of contents makes it immediately clear that Bennie articulated a reformational biblical worldview in the various articles. Without falling in the trap of stagnation and dogmatism he portrays the antithesis between Renaissance and Reformation as well as unbiblical traits in Calvin’s view of the human being. This part of the book is concluded with a sound assessment of the position of women and marriages during the Middle Ages, during the times of Calvin and in our own time.

In the second part Bennie shifted the focus towards worldview and philosophy. This section takes the reader into a more detailed and systematic account of crucial insights and distinctions prevailing within the tradition of reformational philosophy. First of all it provies an analysis of the nature of a life- and worldview followed by an indication of how a world functions within each one of the various modal aspects of reality. In this part related issues are discussed, such as shaping a radical biblical worldview and biblical data for a Christian view of being human. Van der Walt appreciates the legacy of Abraham Kuyper for an understanding of our calling within human society. He also highlights a particular ‘morning star’ of the reformational worldview, A. Janse (1890–1960). This part is concluded with a special reference to the philosophical contribution of Theodor Vollenhoven.

Part 3 turns towards Africa, focusing on its cultural, moral and political dispensation, whilst Part 4 addresses the challenge for Christian scholarship. Van der Walt does this by telling the story of Thomas, who started out as a Christian, then moved on to be a Christian or a scholar, to a Christian and a scholar, until Thomas finally realised that his life is service to God encompassing all of life, including his calling as a Christian scholar. It is appropriate that this part concludes with reflections on the nature and aspirations of a Christian university. Part 5 contains an application to practical social issues such as a biblical understanding of culture and development, globalisation, economic normativity, poverty and wealth, the mystery of marriage, religious diversity, friendship and sport.

This work is accessible to any Christian and does not require specific academic training to appreciate and understand its perspective and call. Therefore it should be made accessible to Christians worldwide. It is therefore good news that this book will also be published as part of the Reformational Publishing Project by Paideia Press in Grand Rapids. 

Strauss, D.F.M., 2013, ‘Bennie van der Walt: An expert in propagating the all-encompassing implications of the Christian world- and life view’, In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi 47(1), Art. #180, 1 page. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ids. v47i1.180.

Derek Schuurman Shaping a Digital World

Shaping a Digital World
Faith, Culture and Computer Technology Derek C. Schuurman
Downers Grove: IVP Academic
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-2713-8
Pbk, 138pp, £12.99

Derek Shuurman, professor of Computer Science at Redeemer, Ontario, has done all Christian technophobes and technophiles a favour. He has written a superb book on how to view technology from a Christian perspective. This book could be described as Creation Regained upgraded for a computer age.

Like Al Wolter's Creation Regained, Schuurman writes from an unashamedly neo-calvinist perspective. Kuyperian themes are embedded in the book. The first chapter introduces technology and exposes the myth that technology is neutral; others deal with Creation (ch 2), Fall (ch 3) and Redemption (ch 4); structure and direction, the antithesis, Dooyeweerd's modal aspects and the norms associated with each are discussed in relation to computer technology (ch 4). This might give the impression that this book is only for graduates - this couldn't be further from the truth. The book will be accessible to most with a good secondary education.

Four pages of discussions questions - a set for each chapter - provide an excellent basis for small group discussions. Further resources to support the book can be found on the book's companion website.

The book began as a series of notes to the question: "What does my faith have to do with my work as an electrical engineer?" In the book Schuurman seeks to answer the question: "What do [computer] bytes have to do with Christian beliefs?" He ably shows us how a Christian worldview informed by the scriptures can help us see the lordship of Christ in the area of (computer) technology.

This book is essential reading for all Christians who have contact with computers - and that would include most Christians! But even the Amish would find much here to illuminate and edify. If you are pastor buy several and give one to each of your students who are leaving for university in September. It will give them an excellent model through which to think about not only technology but also their chosen subject.

Intermediate resources for a Christian approach to most areas of life

There is some overlap with the introductory resources found here. A list of advanced resources will appear shortly. Like the introductory resources these intermediate ones are all written from a broadly neo-Calvinist perspective and are books rather than articles.
The list is testimony to the comprehensiveness of neo-Calvinism.

Feel free to make suggestions in the comments.

Mathematics
James Nikel 2000. Mathematics: Is God Silent? Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books
Andrew M. Hartely 2008. Christian and Humanist Foundations for Statistical Inference. Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock.

Physical sciences
M D Stafleu 2006. Relations and Characters in Protestant Philosophy. [online]
M D Stafleu 1980. Time and Again: A Systematic Analysis of the Foundations of Physics Toronto: Wedge Publishing Foundation.
M D Stafleu 1987. Theories at Work. Toronto: UPA.
Lydia Jaeger 2012. What the Heavens Declare. Eugene, OR: Cascade.
Nancy R. Pearcey and Charles B. Thaxton The Soul of Science Wheaton: Crossway Books


Biology
Jacob Klapwijk. 2008. Purpose in the Living World? : Creation and Emergent Evolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Russell Maatman. 1993. The Impact of Evolutionary Theory: A Christian View. Dordt: Dordt College Press.


Geography and place
Henk Aay and Sander Griffioen (ed.)1998. Geography and Worldview: A Christian Reconnaissance. Toronto: UPA
Craig Bartholomew 2011. Where Mortals Dwell. Grand Rapids: Baker.

Environment and Green issues
Steven Bouma-Preiger 2001. For the Beauty of the Earth. Grand Rapids: Baker
Loren Wilkinson et al. 1980. Earthkeeping in the 90s. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Built environment
Eric O Jacobsen 2012. The Space Between: A Christian Engagement with the Built Environment. Grand Rapids: Baker.

Technology
Stephen V. Monsma, (ed). 1986. Responsible Technology: A Christian Perspective. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Egbert Schuurman 1995. Perspectives on Technology and Culture Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.
Egbert Schuurman 1980.Technology and the Future - A Philosophical Challenge. Toronto: Wedge 
Andrew Basden 2008. Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems. IGI Publishing.

History
M C Smit 2002. Toward a Christian Conception of History.  Edited and translated by Herbert Donald Morton and Harry Van Dyke. Toronto: UPA.

Psychology
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen 1985. The Person in Psychology: A Contemporary Christian Appraisal. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Willem Ouweneel. 2008. Heart and Soul a Christian View of Psychology. Grand Rapids: Paidea Press.
Arnold H. De Graaff 1977. Views of Man and Psychology in Christian Perspective: some readings. Toronto: Institute for Christian Studies. 

Language and Lingustics
Albert Weideman. Beyond Expression. Grand Rapids: Paideia Press.
David Smith with Barbara Cavill 2000. The Gift of the Stranger: Faith, Hospitality and Foreign Language Learning Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Sociology
Alan Storkey 1979. A Christian Social Perspective. Leicester: IVP.
Herman Dooyeweerd A Christian Theory of Social Institutions. La Jolla: The Herman Dooyeweerd Foundation.

Economics
Bob Goudzwaard. Capitalism and Progress: A Diagnosis of Western Society. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Alan Storkey Transforming Economics. London: SPCK/ Third Way Books.

Politics
David Koyzis 2003. Political Visions and Illusions. Downers Grove: IVP.
Jan Dengerink 1978. The Idea of Justice in Christian Perspective. Toronto: Wedge.
James Skillen 2013. The Good of Politics: A Biblical, Historical, and Contemporary Introduction. Grand Rapids: Baker, forthcoming.

Business
Jeff Van Duzer 2010. Why Business Matters to God (And What Still Needs to Be Fixed) . Downers Grove: IVP Academic.

Art and aesthetics
Hilary Brand and Adrienne Dengerink 2001.  Art and Soul: Signposts for Christians in the Arts Carlisle: Piquant.
Geoff Hall 2011. The Wilderness and the Desert of the Real. Upptacka Press (and others in the quadrilogy)
Calvin Seerveld 2000. Bearing Fresh Olive Leaves: Alternative Steps in Understanding Art. Carlisle: Piquant.

Music
Karen A. De Mol. 1999. Sound Stewardship: How Shall Christians Think About Music? Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.
Hans Rookmaaker 2002. New Orleans Jazz, Mahalia Jackson and the Philosophy of Art: The Complete Works Vol 2. Carlisle: Piquant.
Quentin Schultze et al. 1991. Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture and the Electronic Media. Eerdmans. 

Education
Doug Blomberg 2007. Wisdom and Curriculum: Christian Schooling After Postmodernity. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.
John Van Dyk 2000. The Craft of Christian Teaching. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.
Harro Van Brummelen 1992.  Walking with God in the Classroom. Burlington, Ont: Welch.
Jack Mechielsen (ed.) 1980. No Icing on the Cake: Christian Foundations for Education. Brookes-Hall.
Stuart Fowler, et al. 1990. Christian Schooling: Education for Freedom. Potchefstroom: Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education.
Albert E. Greene Jr. 2003. Reclaiming the Future of Christian Education, Purposeful Design Publications; 2nd edition.

Law
Michael P. Schutt 2007. Redeeming Law: Christian Calling and the Legal Profession. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press.

Ethics
Andre Troost The Christian Ethos. Bloemfontein: Patmos.

Theology and biblical studies
Gordon Spykman Refomational Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Michael Goheen 2011. A Light to the Nations. Grand Rapids: Baker.
Dave Beldman and Craig Bartholomew 2012. Hearing the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Worldview
Al Wolters 2005. Creation Regained. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (2nd edn).
Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh Transforming Vision. Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press.
David K. Naugle 2002. Worldview. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans
Mike Goheen and Craig Bartholomew 2008. Living at the Crossroads. SPCK.
J. Mark Bertrand 2007. (Re)Thinking Worldview. Wheaton: Crossway.
John Peck and Charles Strohmer 2001. Uncommon Sense. London: SPCK.

Sport
John Byl and Tom Visker 1999. Physical Education, Sport and Wellness. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.

Philosophy
Roy A. Clouser 2005. Myth of Neutrality. Notre Dame: UNDP (2nd edn).
Roy Clouser 1999. Knowing With the Heart. Downers Grove: IVP.
Andre Troost 2013. What is Reformational Philosophy? Grand Rapids: Paideia Press, 2013.
Steve Bishop (ed.) 2011. Like the First Gleam of Dawn: Reformational Studies - a B. J. van der Walt Reader. Potchefstroom: Institute for Contemporary Christianity in Africa.
Kornelius A. Bril 2005. Vollenhoven’s Problem-Historical Method. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.
Herman Dooyeweerd In the Twilight of Western Thought. Grand Rapids: P&R

Leisure
P Heintzman, G A van Andel and Tom Visker 1994. Christianity and Leisure: Issues in a Pluralistic Society. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.

Media and film
William Romanowski 2007. Eyes Wide Open. Grand Rapids: Brazos.
Quentin J Schulte and Robert Woods (eds) 2008. Understanding Evangelical Media. Downers Grove: IVP.
Brian Godawa 2002. Hollywood Worldviews. Downers Grove: IVP.

Family and Marriage
James H. Olthius 1975. I Pledge You My Troth. San Francisco: Harper & Row.
James H. Olthius 1986. Keeping Our Troth. San Francisco: Harper & Row.
Alan Storkey 1996. Marriage and its Modern crisis: Repairing a Married Life. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
Harry Van Belle 1991. Two Shall Become One. Burlington, On: Welch Publishing.

Work and vocation
Amy L. Sherman 2011. Kingdom Calling. Downers Grove: IVP.
Lee Hardy 1990. The Fabric of This World.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Gender
Elaine Storkey 2000. Created or Constructed? Milton Keynes: Paternoster Press
Mary Stewart van Leeuwen 1990. Gender and Grace. Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press.


Many of these books if they are in print are available from Byron Borger's Hearts & Minds Bookstore in the USA

Fuller bibliographies for most of the above areas are available here and here.

Elaine Storkey: What does it mean to be human?

Elaine Storkey: What does it mean to be human? (2012) from oxfordchristianmind on Vimeo.

Introductory resources for a Christian approach to all (well many of) the areas of life

Here are my suggestions for best introductory books in each category (hence nothing by eg Herman Dooyeweerd or D. H. Th. Vollenhoven!). I've restricted it to one or two books  - occasionally three - where possible and from authors writing largely in the kuyperian, neo-calvinist tradition. Sadly, some of them are long out of print.

Mathematics
James Nikel 2000. Mathematics: Is God Silent? Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books

Physical sciences and Biology
Arthur Jones (ed.) 1998. Science in Faith: A Christian Perspective on Teaching Science. Christian Schools' Trust.
Tim Morris and Dan Petcher 2006. Science and Grace. Wheaton: Crossway

Geography and place
Henk Aay and Sander Griffioen (ed.)1998. Geography and Worldview: A Christian Reconnaissance. Toronto: UPA
Craig Bartholomew 2011.  Where Mortals Dwell. Grand Rapids: Baker.

Environment and Green issues 
Steve Bishop and Christopher Droop 1999.  The Earth is the Lord's. Bristol: Regius Press
Loren Wilkinson et al.  Earthkeeping. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 

Built environment
Eric O Jacobsen 2012. The Space Between: A Christian Engagement with the Built Environment.  Grand Rapids: Baker.

Technology
Monsma, Stephen V (ed). 1986. Responsible Technology: A Christian Perspective. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 
Derek C. Schuurman 2013. Shaping a Digital World: Faith, Culture and Computer Technology. Downers Grove: IVP. 


History
Ben House 2008.  Punic Wars & Culture Wars. Covenant Media Press.

Psychology 
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen 1985. The Person on Psychology: A Contemporary Christian Appraisal. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Willem Ouweneel. 2008. Heart and Soul a Christian View of Psychology. Grand Rapids: Paidea Press.

Language and Lingustics
Albert Weideman 2011. A Framework for the Study of linguistics. Grand Rapids: Paideia Press.

David Smith with Barbara Cavill 2000. The Gift of the Stranger: Faith, Hospitality and Foreign Language Learning. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
 
Sociology
Alan Storkey 1979. A Christian Social Perspective. Leicester: IVP.

Economics
Bob Goudzwaard. Capitalism and Progress: A Diagnosis of Western Society. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Alan Storkey Transforming Economics. London: SPCK/ Third Way Books.

Politics
Jim Skillen 1990. The Scattered Voice: Christians at Odds in the Public Square. Grand Rapids: Zondervan
David Koyzis 2003. Political Visions and Illusions. Downers Grove: IVP.
Paul Marshall 1984.Thine is the Kingdom. Basingstoke: Marshalls.
Timothy Sherratt and Ronald Mahurin 1995. Saints as Citizens. Grand rapids: Baker.

Business
Jeff Van Duzer 2010. Why Business Matters to God (And What Still Needs to Be Fixed). Downers Grove: IVP Academic.


Art and aesthetics 

Hilary Brand and Adrienne Dengerink 2001. Art and Soul: Signposts for Christians in the Arts Carlisle: Piquant.
Hans Rookmaaker 1970. Modern Art and the Death of a Culture. Downers Grove: IVP.

Hans Rookmaaker 1978. Art Needs No Justification. Inter-Varsity Press.

Music 
Karen A. De Mol. 1999.  Sound Stewardship: How Shall Christians Think About Music? Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.

Education 
 Doug Blomberg 2007. Wisdom and Curriculum: Christian Schooling After Postmodernity. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.
Mark Roques 1989. Curriculum Unmasked: Towards a Christian Understanding of Education. Eastboyrne: Monarch.
John Van Dyk 2005. The Craft of Christian Teaching. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.
John van Dyk  2011. Letters to Lisa. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press. 
David I. Smith and John Shortt 2002. The Bible and the Task of Teaching. Nottingham: Stapleford Centre.

Law
Michael P. Schutt 2007. Redeeming Law: Christian Calling and the Legal Profession. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press.
 
Ethics
 Andre Troost The Christian Ethos. Bloemfontein: Patmos.

Theology and biblical studies
Craig Bartholemew and Mike Goheen The Drama of Scripture. SPCK
Gordon Spykman Refomational Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Michael Goheen 2011.  A Light to the Nations. Grand Rapids: Baker.

Worldview
Al Wolters 2005.  Creation Regained. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans (2nd edn)
Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh Transforming Vision. Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press
David K. Naugle 2002. Worldview. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans
Mike Goheen and Craig Bartholomew 2008.  Living at the Crossroads. SPCK.
Mike Wittmer 2004. Heaven is a Place on Earth. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Sport 
Mark Roques 2003. Fields of God. Milton Keynes: Authentic.
John Byl and Tom Visker 1999. Physical Education, Sport and Wellness. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.

Philosophy
Roy A. Clouser 2005. Myth of Neutrality. Notre Dame: UNDP.
John H. Kok 1998. Patterns of the Western Mind. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.

Steve Bishop (ed.) 2011. Like the First Gleam of Dawn: Reformational Studies - a B. J. vand der Walt Reader. Potchefstroom: Institute for Contemporary Christianity in Africa.
L. Kalsbeek 1975. Contours of a Christian Philosophy. Toronto: Wedge. 
 
Leisure
P Heintzman, G A van Andel and Tom Visker 1994. Christianity and Leisure: Issues in a Pluralistic Society. Sioux Center: Dordt College Press.

Media and film 
William Romanowski 2007. Eyes Wide Open. Grand Rapids: Brazos.
Quentin J Schulte and Robert Woods (eds) 2008. Understanding Evangelical Media. IVP.
Brian Godawa 2002. Hollywood Worldviews.  Downers Grove: IVP.

Family and Marriage
James H. Olthius 1975. I Pledge You My Troth. San Francisco: Harper & Row.
E. L. Hebden Taylor1970. The Reformational Understanding of Family and Marriage. Grand Rapids: Craig Press. 

Work and vocation
Amy L. Sherman 2011. Kingdom Calling. Downers Grove: IVP.
Tom Nelson 2011. Work Matters. Wheaton: Crossway.




Fuller bibliographies for most of the above areas are available here and here.

This is version 1.1 - updated with suggestions and comments from Richard Gunton, Rudi Hayward, Jeremy Ive, Arthur Jones, Mark Roques, Richard Russell and Eline van Asperen.

Though any omissions/ errors are my very own!