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B J van der Walt festschrift - Koers 75 (1) 2010

Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship = Koers : Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap Vol 75, Issue 1 (2010)


Table of contents:


1. Voorwoord / Preamble

Authors: Heyns, Michael; Hoogstad, Helena; Kleinhans, Leandri; Lourens, Susan; Otto, Erika; Lourens, Santie; Oberholzer, Bertha;

Pages: xv-xvii


2. Bennie and IAPCHE : messages of acknowledgement

Authors: Lantinga, N.;

Pages: xix


3. Uit die skatkis van herinnerings : Instituut vir Reformatoriese Studie : erkenningsboodskappe

Authors: Venter, JJ (Ponti);

Pages: xx


4. Professor (BJ) Bennie van der Walt en Filosofie : erkenningsboodskappe

Authors: Heyns, M.;

Pages: xxi


5. Groete - Reformatoriese Beweging van Suider-Afrika : erkenningsboodskappe

Authors: Swanepoel, J.;

Pages: xxii


6. Bennie van der Walt - 'n huldeblyk : erkenningsboodskappe

Authors: Combrink, AL;

Pages: xxiii-xxv


7. Professor BJ van der Walt : a very complex and dynamic configuration of a variety of functions centrally religiously directed in all his actions : personal messages

Authors: Letsosa, R.;

Pages: xxvii-xxx


8. Voor Bennie en Hannetjie van der Walt : herinneringen aan meer dan 40 jaren vriendschap : persoonlike boodskappe

Authors: Bril, KA;

Pages: xxxi-xxxiii


9. BJ van der Walt : consummate educator : personal messages

Authors: Vander Stelt, JC;

Pages: xxxv-xxxix


10. Interview with Bennie van der Walt : perspectives

Authors: Bishop, Steve;

Pages: xli-lxvii


11. 'n Voetpad deur die werklikheid - filosofiese memoires : perspektiewe

Authors: Van der Walt, BJ;

Pages: lxix-lxxxix


12. Een concentratieprobleem bij BJ van der Walt : navorsingsartikel

Authors: Griffioen, S.;

Pages: 1-13


13. Reflecting on our past : reconciling a divided nation through listening : research article

Authors: Ayee, ESA;

Pages: 15-32


14. Professor Bennie van der Walt : a bridge between white Afrikaners and black Africans : research article

Authors: Turaki, Y.;

Pages: 33-51


15. Die sentrale plek van 'n lewens- en wêreldbeskouing : navorsingsartikel

Authors: Strauss, DFM;

Pages: 53-77


16. Religion in education : is there yet another solution? : research article

Authors: Van der Walt, JL;

Pages: 79-98


17. De strijd om de richting van de Westerse cultuur : navorsingsartikel

Authors: Schuurman, E.;

Pages: 99-114


18. A Christian mission of glocal culture within riven societies in God's world : research article

Authors: Seerveld, CG;

Pages: 115-134


19. Towards authentic development : research article

Authors: Fowler, S.;

Pages: 135-147


20. Traces of neo-Calvinism in France and Italy : research article

Authors: Coletto, R.;

Pages: 149-172


21. Reflections on a Christian view of human communication : research article

Authors: Van Belle, HA;

Pages: 173-188


22. Hermeneia : 'n teologiese gesprek oor hermeneutiese vrae met drie Suid-Afrikaanse teoloë : navorsingsartikel

Authors: Van Wyk, JH;

Pages: 189-215


23. Moraliteit, die opdringerige en die voorwaardelike : navorsingsartikel

Authors: Heyns, MF;

Pages: 217-243


24. A reading of TSEliot's Ash-Wednesday : research article

Authors: Sawyer, F.;

Pages: 245-265


25. Geskrifte van BJ van der Walt / Publications of BJ van der Walt 1960-2010

Authors:

Pages: 267-277

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Odds and sods

Douglas Groothius's full outline for a talk on Bible, science and origins
The new Calvins in The Economist
Anthony Billington has links to talks on Christianity and culture by David VanDrunen
Jon Swales posts his Idolatry of technology talk and slides
Advance ordering for Jonathan Chaplin's new book on Dooyeweerd's political philosophy is now available [HT Paideia]
An interview with Sufan Stevens

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Idolatry: romantic love

What is love? Love has become confused with a feeling. The idea of romance and romantic love is a distortion of the biblical idea of love. Love is a laying down of a life, love is obedience, love is commitment. The notion of romantic love seen in many films and in this advert - beautifully constructed and directed by Jean Pierre Jeunet - has become an idol. We measure love by romance, by how we feel.
Gary Thomas has written a great book with a brilliant sub-title: Sacred Marriage: What if God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to make Us Happy? This exposes the idol of romantic marriage. Marriage isn’t all about being happy - it’s a about laying our lives down for our partners. It doesn’t mean that romance isn’t good. All idolatries take something good and distort it; the partial truth becomes the whole truth. But love can’t survive on romance alone. Marriages need more than just romance. Romance is not a basis for a secure and long-lasting marriage.

The Romantic turn, associated with Wordsworth, Blake and Coleridge, and later Shelley and Keats, was responsible for this elevation of romance. They thought it was a crime - against oneself!- to marry for something other than an emotional love.

As C. S. Lewis’s Screwtape says "They regard the intention of loyalty to a partnership for mutual help, for the preservation of chastity, and for the transmission of life as something lower than a storm of emotion" (p. 72).
 

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The Selfless Gene - a review

The Selfless Gene
Living with God and with Darwin
Charles Foster
Nashville: Thomas Nelson
ISBN 978-0-8499-4654-7
Pbk, 283pp, $14.99

This book review is brought to you courtesy of Thomas Nelson’s Book sneeze.

The Selfish Gene is something of a curate’s egg: good in parts. Reading it I was frustrated, angry, puzzled but it made me think – and that can’t be a bad thing.
Foster in the beginning sets up a conflict between creationsits and naturalistic evolutionsists. He writes polemically: “If few in the business agree with Dawkins, almost nobody thinks there is anything at all in any of the creationist contentions” (p xiii) And yet only a few pages later he writes: ‘An August 2006 survey of British university students found more than a third believed in either creationism or intelligent design’!

“There are no proper evidences for any of the creationist assertions” (p viv) – this left me wondering where is the evidence for this assertion? He then goes on to knock intelligent design as ‘ the fashionable fig leaf’ that paints a strange picture of God. Unfortunately, he doesn’t deal with the more sophisticated views of ID or old earth creationists. He seems content to deal with a straw man and a caricature of creationism.

“Creationism has done untold harm to Christianity, and untold good to Richard Dawkin’s bank balance’ (p 19). But neither does Dawkins escape scathing criticism: “His essential creed – scientism- has a quaintly dated feel about it.” (p. 19)

His main thesis is that creationism and Dawkinsism (Foster’s term) are very dull and cannot explain such a colourful world. So he goes in search of a middle way.

He goes on to look at the evidence for evolution – chapter 3 consists of a display of exhibits. From chapter 4 onwards the book gets a little more interesting. Until now it has been rather predictable. Here he looks at the evolution of altruism and community. How can a theory that’s based on the survival of the fittest produce altruism and community? He tentatively suggests that may be there is another force operating alongside natural selection. He then looks at the evolution of religion – how can, given an evolutionary framework, religion exist? He is asking good questions and that is a good step towards finding an answer.

He spends many pages examining the creation and fall accounts in Genesis 1-3. The fall has been a stumbling block for a theistic evolutionary perspective. Foster doesn’t seem to know what to do with the fall. He seems to want to minimise or reinterpret it; he doesn’t see it as a solution to pain and suffering. But then I would maintain it wasn’t meant to be that anyway.

He asserts that ‘nothing remotely like the traditional Christian doctrine of the Fall was recognized either by Jewish scholars or by the early Church’ (p. 171) but gives no evidence in support. He asserts that in the fall ‘the image of God was enhanced. That was precisely the problem” (p. 224). ‘If this was a fall it was a fall up”! “The direct and immediate consequence of the ‘Fall’ is civilization as we know it “(p. 227 – emphasis in original). This is an interesting twist on things.

Foster asks some important questions both of evolutionary theory and of the Genesis text. I’m not convinced by his answers though.

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Odds and sods

Jon Swales (aka ordinand) has switched/switching blog sites and titles: Theological ramblings

My brief review of Robert Wazzuzzinski's Ruth: The Story of Undending Redemption is up at Paideia Centre's site.

Kuyper on using Scripture in politics

Glenn Peoples on 'The new atheism, science and morality'

The Bavinck Review 1 (2010) is now online

Dawkin's downfall: arrest the pope

All of life redeemed update

Added to the website:

David Beldman 'Towards a missional approach to Christian scholarship in the theological disciplines: learning for shalom'

Mark Roques 'Epistemology, story-telling and pedagogy'

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