Further resources
Colleges/ universities
Journals
Blogs
Subjects
Philosophy
Society of Christian Philosophers
Theology and biblical studies
John Vander Stelt Church in society (an orientation) [pdf]
Craig Bartholemew and Mike Goheen The Drama of Scripture and website
Chris Gousmett pages
Comment magazine has a series of articles on reading the Bible:
· Reading the Bible . . . and listening for the Spirit by Vincent Bacote
· Reading the Bible . . . and articulating a worldview by Michael Goheen
· Reading the Bible in public by Jim Skillen
· Reading the Bible: The Story and finding our place in it by Gideon Strauss
· Reading the Bible like a grown-up child by Calvin Seerveld
Craig Bartholomew et al. (eds) Scripture and Hermeneutics series:
· Renewing Biblical Interpretation (vol 1)
· After Pentecost:Language & Biblical Interpretation (Vol 2)
· 'Behind' theText: History & Biblical Interpretation. (Vol.4)
Ethics
C2 Christian ethics blog
Ethics: Person, Practices and Society International Symposium
Panels:
· Family
· Agriculture, nature and ecology
· ICT, media and mass communication
Workshop papers:
· Doug Blomberg Teachers Living the curriculum
· Henk Stoker The ethical dilemma of ‘unethical’ religious movements
· Ralph Vunderink Love, power and justice
· Bennie van der Walt A shame-/versus a guilt-orientated conscience: an explanation for difference between African and Western ethics
· Hans Burger The significance of ‘being in Christ’ for Christian ethics
· Harry Cook These all look to you: Darwin and Psalm 104
· Rudi Hayward Naïve experience and differentiated practices
· Michael Heyns The transcendentalness of the moral order
· Yasunori Ichikawa God, man and nature in the Christian and Japanese-Shintoistic views, implications for environmental ethics
· Ananka Loubser Nature vs culture in sustainable environmental management
· Martin Rice Moral intuitionism: moral properties as directly perceived, non-mysterious parts of the world
· Jonathan Chaplin Public justice as a political norm
· Giacomo Carlo Di Gaetano The reception of reformed epistemology in the Italian philosophical context
· Peter Stoker Christian ethic and the concept of creation
· Danie Strauss Legal rights for plants and animals
· Pieter Vos Educating for Autonomy: Reconstructing a Moral Ideal
· Marc de Vries Ethics and the increasing complexity of technology
· Albert Weidman Integrity and accountability in applied linguistics
Law
Dooyeweerd on Law and Morality: Legal Ethics - A Test Case. Victoria University of Wellington Law Review vol 28, no. 1, 1998, pp 263-281.
for Justice: Church, Law and State in New Zealand.' Wellington, Dunmore Press, 1994. With Jonathan Boston (eds).
'MacCormick's Liberal Theory of Rights.' Archiv für Rechts-und Sozialephilosophie (ARSP). No. 42, 1990, pp 133-143.
Herman Dooyeweeyd, Essays in Legal, Social and Political Philosophy (Mellen, 1997).
Herman Dooyeweerd, Encyclopedia of the Science of Law vol. 1 (Mellen, 2002).
H J van Eikema Hommes, 'The Material Idea of the Law-State,' Philosophia Reformata (1978).
H J van Eikema Hommes, Major Trends in the History of Legal Philosophy (North- Holland, 1979).
E L Hebden Taylor, The Christian Philosophy of Law, Politics and the State (Craig Press, 1969).
David S Caudill, Disclosing Tilt: Law, Belief and Criticism (Vrije Universiteit, 1989).
Art and aesthetics
Linette Martin Hans Rookmaaker: A Biography (Hodders, 1979)
Laurel Gasque Hans Rookmaaker: An Open Life
A brief bio and description of the Rookmaaker archives held at Wheaton college here.
On Rookmaker
The importance of Hans Rookmaaker
Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker (editor) The Complete Works of Hans R. Rookmaaker (Piquant, 2002/3)
Art needs no justification (IVP, 1978) on-line version
Rainbows for the Fallen World, Toronto Tuppence Press, 1980
Voicing God’s Psalms (with audio CD) (2005)
In the Field’s of the Lord: A Seerveld Reader (ed Craig Bartholomew) (2000)
Bearing Fresh Olive Leaves: Alternative Steps in Understanding Art (2000)
Take Hold of God and Pull (1999)
A Christian Critique of Art and Literature (1995/1963)
On Being Human: Imaging God in the modern world (1988)
The Greatest Song, in critique of Solomon (1988/1967 & video 2001)
Seerveld's books are available from Tuppence Press (in North America) and the Christian Studies Unit (in the UK) and Piquant (in the UK)
On-line works include the following:
Gideon Strauss' Seerveld texts
· Reading the Bible Like a Grown-Up Child
· Biblical reflections at a conference celebrating the life-service of H. Evan Runner
· Celebrate the resourceful woman (Proverbs 31)
A Christian tin-can theory of man
Reformational Christian philosophy and Christian College education
The strategy of giving away gifts
The biblical charter for artistic activity
On Seerveld:
Gregory Baus Seerveld’s Hineinlebenshaltung
Jeremy Begbie, Voicing Creation's Praise (T&T Clark, 1991).
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Art in Action (Eerdmans, 1980).
Hans Rookmaker, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture (IVP, 1970).
Leland Ryken, Roger Pooley, David Barratt (eds), The Discerning Reader (Apollos, 1995).
Walhout, Clarence, and Leland Ryken, eds. Contemporary Literary Theory: A Christian Appraisal. Grand Rapids (Eerdmans, 1991).
Lambert Zuidervaart, Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure.
Lambert Zuidervaart and Henry Luttikhuizen, eds., The Arts, Community and Cultural Democracy (St. Martin's, 2000).
Economics
The Association of Christian Economists exists to encourage Christians to explore and communicate the relationship between their faith and economics and to promote interaction among Christian economists.
Faith in Business Quarterly
Donald Hay and Alan Kreider (eds) Christianity and the culture of economics (University of Wales Press,2001).
Craig Bartholomew & Thorsten Moritz eds Christ and Consumerism: A Critical Analysis of the Spirit of the Age (Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 2000).
Alan Storkey The epistemological foundations of consumption theory in economics- a critique
Dooyeweerd Ideas on business, enterprise.
Goudzwaard and H de Lange Beyond Poverty and Affluence Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1995
Bob Goudzwaard Capitalism and Progress
Globalization, exclusion, enslavement
We need a fruit tree not a tunnel
Globalization and Christian Hope with Leo Andringa
Sociology
Bruce Wearne The social structure of human responsibility
Lyon, David. Sociology and the human being. (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1985).
Marshall, Paul A, and Robert E Vander Vennen, (eds). Social Science in Christian Perspective. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1988).
Storkey, Alan. A Christian Social Perspective (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press. 1978).
Storkey, Alan 'The surrogate sciences' Philosophia Reformata, 51 (1986): 110-116. [from the Gospel and culture website]
Walter, J A. A long way from home: A sociological exploration of contemporary idolatry. (Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1979).
Politics
Bruce Wearne Christian radical reflections
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Alan Storkey Jesus and Politics.
Oliver O'Donovan, & Joan Lockwood O'Donovan, Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past & Present.
R Swanepoel and B van der Walt (eds). Orientation vols. 75-78: Confessing Christ in Doing Politics: Essays on Christian Political Thought and Action (1995).
Jon Chaplin and Paul Marshall. (Ed) Political Theory and Christian Vision.
Normative Foundations: The Primacy of the Will and the Problem of Law in the Thought of George Grant (O'Donovan), The Development of Herman Dooyeweerd's Concept of Rights (Witte), Toward a Comprehensive Science of Politics (Skillen). The Nature of the State:Subsidiarity as a Political Norm (Chaplin), Arendt on Polis, nation-State and Federation (Koyzis), David Mitrany's Functionalist World Order (Cooper). The State in a Plural Society: Liberalism, Pluralism and Christianity (Marshall), Public Philosophy and Religious Pluralism (Griffioen), Trudeau and the French Canadians (Hiemstra), Two Critiques of Legal Ideology (Caudill). Political Economy: Von Mises' Economic Reductionism (Clemenger), Reconceptualizing Economics: the Contributions of Karl Polanyi (Woods), 'Is Not This Kind of Fasting I Have Chosen?' Simone Weil's Life and Labour (Selles-Roney).
Business
Linguistics
Albert Weideman Beyond Expression: A Systematic Study of the Foundations of Linguistics Paideia Press/ Reformational Publishing Project (Forthcoming)
Albert Weideman 2006. Academic Literacy: Prepare to Learn
Calvin Seerveld. 2001. Babel, Pentecost, Glossolalia and Philoxenia: No Language is Foreign to God. Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages 2 (2001). 5-30.
Modern Foreign Languages
Barbara Carvill 'Foreign Language Education: A Christian Calling.' Christian Educators Journal, 30(3) (1991): 28-29.
English
Barrett, Pooley and Ryken The Discerning Reader
Geography
Henk Aay and Sander Griffioen (Ed) Geography and Worldview: A Christian Reconnaissance (UPA, 1998)
Chapters on: Geography and the Natural Theology Imperative (Livingstone), Postmodern Epistemologies: Are we stuck with our relatives? (Ley), A Christian reading of the global economy (Wallace), Christian worldview and geography: positivism, covenantal relations, and the importance of place (Curry-Roper), God's own countries? Contours of a Christian worldview in Geography (Hoekveld-Meijer), Alien in a foreign land: Human geography from the perspective of Christian citizenship (Hoekveld), Christian worldview and geography: Christian schools in the Netherlands 1900-1960 (Aay), Perspectives, Worldviews and Structures (Griffioen). Available from CSU
Henk Aay Dooyeweerd’s spatial modality and its implications for Geography
Henk Aay Geography’s cultural landscape school: a Reformational reading
History
Paul Otto's homepage (not used at present)
Logic and critical thinking
Psychology
Stanton L. Jones and Richard E. Butman, Modern Psychotherapies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal, (InterVarsity Press, 1991).
David Myers, Psychology through the Eyes of Faith, (Apollos, 1991).
Paul Vitz, Psychology as Religion:The Cult of Self-Worship, (Paternoster/Eerdmans, (2nd Edition) 1994).
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Christian Looks at the Changing Face of Psychology, (InterVarsity Press, 1982).
Technology
Macht’s Philosophy of technology website
Egbert Schuurman: [Schuurman Pages]
· Technology and the Future: A Philosophical Challenge (Wedge, 1980)
· Perspectives on Technique and Culture
· Faith and Hope in Technology (Clements, 2003)
On-line:
· Philosophical and technological problems of technicism and genetic engineering
· Technology, genetic manipulation and the future
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Steven V. Monsma Responsible Technology (Erdmans, 1986)
Natural science
Facets of Faith and Science book
Martin A. Rice Jr. What is a science? in Contemporary Reflections on the Philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd ed. D. F. M. Strauss and M. Botting (Edwin Mellen Press, 2000)
Gender
Elaine Storkey, Origins of Difference: The Gender Debate Revisited (Baker, 2001)
Elaine Storkey, What's Right With Feminism? (Third Way)
M Stewart Van Leeuwen et al, After Eden (Eerdmans, 1993).
Education
Rockne McCarthy et al, eds., Society, State, and Schools: A Case for Structural and Confessional Pluralism (Eerdmans, 1981)