(Information on fees and contact information can be found below.)
Register on-line for Summer School courses now or call 416-979-2331 ext 234 and speak with the Registrar
Summer School 2008
Ethics After Auschwitz: Adorno and Levinas
ICS 1951/2951 S08
Lambert Zuidervaart, Ron Kuipers, Jeff Dudiak and Shannon Hoff
Dates: May 5 - May 16
Location: ICS Campus
Contemporary philosophy aims to be "post metaphysical." This raises questions about an appropriate basis for reflections about personal ethics and public morality. Genocide, terrorism, and state-sponsored violence add urgency to such questions. Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas have posed these issues in unsurpassed ways. This seminar studies their writings on ethics "after Auschwitz."
Romans: God, Israel and Empire
CSTC I and IV; ICS1233/2233SM08
Dr. Sylvia Keesmaat
Dates: May 5 - 16
Location: ICS campus
Beginning with recent studies on the nature of the Roman empire in the first century, we will set the context for a reading of Romans which engages both its imperial setting and the story of Israel appealed to by Paul throughout the letter. How was this community to relate to the story of the Jews? How was this community to relate to the story of Rome? How do
these stories relate to the story of Jesus? And what sort of community were the followers of Jesus in Rome called to be?
Feminism, Faith and Rhetoric
CSTC IV; ICS1960/2960SM08
Dr. Helen Sterk
Dates: June 2 - 13
Location: ICS campus
Through the lens of rhetorical theory, this course will explore issues in faith and feminism. The focus will be on how the rhetoric of religious discourses and traditions have constructed “woman” and “man”, and what difference those constructs make in human relationships and theological understandings of God and humans.
Art, Beauty and God: Recurrent Themes in Theological Aesthetics
ICS 1160/2160 SM08
Dr. Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin and Dr. Wessel Stoker
Dates: June 30 - July 11
Location: ICS campus
Since the early church Christian thinkers have been ambivalent about art and beauty. Some reviled art and beauty for their supposed seductive or idolatrous nature. Others revered them for their apparent capacity to serve as steppingstones to a higher spiritual reality. Since modern times art, beauty and religion have made dramatic comebacks in philosophical and
theological debates. Co-taught by a theologian and a philosopher, the course will explore the relationships between:art and beauty; icons and idols; art, religion and worldview; theological and philosophical aesthetics. The course will examine recent developments in theological aesthetics with a view to identifying which theories hold most promise for a holistic contemporary Christian aesthetics.
The Weakness of God: John D. Caputo
ICS 1530/2530 SM08
Dr. James Olthuis
and Dr. J.D. Caputo
Dates: July 7 - 18
Location: ICS campus
This seminar will examine the emerging deconstructive theologizing of John D. Caputo, a leading American Catholic postmodern philosopher. Beginning with his effort to construct a radical hermeneutics, moving through his treatment of the prayers and tears of Jacques Derrida, the seminar will conclude by focusing on Caputo's radical theology of the weakness of God, forgiveness and faith.
Advanced Educational Psychology
CSTC III; ICS1360/2360SM08
Dr. Gloria Goris Stronks
Dates: July 21 - 25
Location: Redeemer University
College, Ancaster, ON
This course presents a biblical model of the learner. It includes an examination of psycho-educational theories of development from the perspective of selected theorists. Consideration is given to the application of these theories to the educational environment and the implications of these theories with regard to intellectual development.
Aspects of faith and moral development will also be considered.
Fees: - Master of Worldview Studies credit or Christian school teacher
certification
$990 plus a $25.00 registration fee.
- MA or PhD credit:
$990 plus a $25.00 registration fee.
- Audit Fee:
$600 plus a $25.00 registration fee.
Please contact the Registrar at academic-registrar@icscanada
SHAPING THE DREAMS OF THIS GENERATION
One-day Training Conferences for all Christian youth and children’s leaders
Young people dream.
Caught up as consumers in a secular society poisoned by a toxic mix of materialism and greed they have few positive influences to help shape their dreams.
That's where you come in...
During the training conferences we will help you to:
- Gain an insight into the forces that shapethe dreams and worldviews of our young people.
- Discover how to help young people challenge the secular worldviews they pick up.
- Be challenged to see how we can engage with the Bible in a fresh and exciting way.
Be envisioned to help young people see how the story of God can help re-shape their dreams.
Main speaker: We are delighted that Mark Roques (resident tutor at the West Yorkshire School of Christian Studies) is joining us at each venue.
Mark is a writer and storyteller who has spent many years in education. For eleven years he taught Philosophy & Religious Studies at Prior Park College in Bath where he developed a unique Christian worldview course that combined film, music, story-telling and subversive role plays.
Mark is the author of Curriculum Unmasked: Towards a Christian Understanding of education, The Good, The Bad and The Misled: True Stories Reflecting Different World Views for Use in Secondary Religious Education and Fields of God: Football and the Kingdom of God.
Information:
These events are open to anyone aged 16 or over who works with any age group from 8 upwards.
Registered Energize groups receive three free places as part of their subscription, and thereafter the cost is £10 per person. All other leaders pay £15. The fee includes light refreshments throughout the day and a comprehensive workbook.
Each training conference will run from 10:00am to 4:30pm.
Our venues are carefully chosen churches and Christian centres with good conference facilities, easy access from major routes and parking on-site or very close by. Venue details will be sent with each booking confirmation, and are also available on request.
A wide range of books, videos and other resources for youth and children’s leaders will be on sale at each venue, many at heavily discounted prices.
Refreshments will be provided free throughout the day, but you will need to bring a packed lunch.
Dates and venues for Autumn 2007:
Oct 6 - Exeter
Oct 13 - Bury St Edmunds
Oct 27 - Edinburgh
Nov 3 - Belfast
Nov 10 - Colwyn Bay
Nov 17 - Cardiff
Nov 24 - Bristol
Booking information:
Please click HERE to download a Booking Form in PDF format
Please click HERE to download a brochure in PDF format (1 MB)
Presents the annual
BERNARD ZYLSTRA LECTURES
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Authority and the Image of God
Dr. David T. Koyzis
Professor of Political Science
Redeemer University College
Supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation
Chapel address
11:00 am - 12:00 noon, Auditorium
"Living as Image-Bearers"
Afternoon Panel Discussion
3:00 pm, Executive Dining Room
"What Now? Taking Stock of the Provincial Election Results"
Evening Public Lecture
7:00 pm, Room 213
"Can I? May I? The Reduction of Authority to Power"
Invitation is open and admission is free
For more information please contact
Marlene Raddatz
(905)648-2131 x 4414
mraddatz[at]redeemer[dot]ca
Seventeenth-century North America witnessed the encounter of numerous European nations and Native American groups. In the Hudson Valley, where the Dutch established New Netherland, Dutch and Munsee Indians met and interacted in myriad ways. Employing a frontier framework, this volume considers how Dutch-Munsee relations developed over the life of the colony. At each stage of European colonization—first contact, trade, and settlement—the Munsees faced the increasing imposition of Dutch societal structures and sovereignty over them. In response, the Munsees variously chose accomodation, resistance, or acculturation. The volume concludes with a suggestive afterword in which the author applies his frontier framework to Dutch-indigenous relations in the Cape Colony of southern Africa.
The contents list, foreword by Desmond Tutu and an excerpt are available here.
More information is on the Baker website here.
We want to have it all: financial strength, secure homes, clean air and water for our children. With the latest technological advances available, we deserve to have every dilemma resolved. Isn't that the way it's supposed to work? Hope in Troubled Times dares to say "no."
Poverty, terrorism, and overtaxed land are planetary problems that make even believers despair. But the authors point to Christ as the source of hope. Our choice is obvious. We work together, learning to live unselfishly, or we watch civilization sink further into the abyss. With a foreword by renowned human rights activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Hope in Troubled Times provides real-world solutions to life-threatening problems. The authors show that with God's guidance we can knock down the idols that stunt clear thinking.
Friday to Saturday, 7th - 8th September 2007
Exploring positive contributions that a Christian faith-perspective can make to core disciplines in today's academy
Jointly sponsored by WYSOCS and Christian Academic Network
Speakers include: Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin, Jonathan Chaplin and Richard Weikert
Bodington Hall, University of Leeds, UK
More details here
The project has launched a new website:
In the pipeline are books by Egbert Schuurman and H Evan Runner.
From the website:
It is also our intention to make available in digital form, a number of volumes, articles, and bibliographies that we will scan to PDF and RTF files and that will reside on the site as a simple download. S. U. Zuidema’s Communication and Confrontation, H. van Reissen’s The Society of The Future, or H. J. van Eikema Hommes’s Major Trends in The History of Legal Philosophy, might serve as examples of the sort of works that are not readily available and would be of significant usefulness, but for various reasons we would not want to republish these works in a hard copy.
As soon as it is feasible we would like to produce an Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea. We presently envision this work to also cover the major figures of the Western tradition as well as the more important names from the Eastern to the Far-Eastern traditions. This project will begin in a modest fashion by first simply accumulating a list in rank order of the names and dates we need to include, and then gradually grow to maturity as the articles are developed and vetted. As we plan to produce this work at the highest level of systematic competence we have asked Prof. Daniel Strauss to serve as general editor. It will be his responsibility to enlist the aid of competent scholars in the various disciples as well as to assign articles. Needless to say this particular project will entail a great deal of work and cooperation from the reformational community.
This message is to announce some dates (and contact persons) for meetings I will be holding with interested Dooyeweerd students, scholars, and teachers in the near future. On behalf of the Herman Dooyeweerd Foundation (HDF) and Redeemer University College (RUC), which houses the Dooyeweerd Centre (DC), I am conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the program to publish the Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd (CWHD).
The aim of the meetings is to inform participants about the project and its current status and to gather ideas for the future of all dimensions of the CWHD program. The following meetings are now scheduled:
—February 19, Monday (in the afternoon or early evening) at Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa
contact person: John Kok: jkok@dordt.edu
—February 21, Wednesday (afternoon or evening) at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
contact person: Uko Zylstra: zylu@calvin.edu
—February 22, Thursday (3:30 p.m.) at Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, Illinois
contact person: Brad Breems: brad.breems@trnty.edu
It would be a delight for me, and a great help to the CWHD project, if you could participate in one of these meetings for open discussion. In order to find out the time and location on any of these events, get in touch with the contact person. If you want to receive a list of the questions for which I am seeking answers, please contact me and I’ll forward them to you (jim@cpjustice.org). The contact persons also have these questions.
I am also now working with contacts in the UK [15th March at WYSOCS, Leeds] and The Netherlands to set up similar meetings in each of those countries, probably sometime between March 17 and 23. Once those dates and locations are fixed, I’ll send out a second notice about them.
And finally, a meeting of all interested persons in the Toronto and Ancaster areas of Ontario, Canada will probably be arranged in early April. More about that later as well.
If you are unable to participate in any of these sessions but would like to offer some feedback and suggestions, please feel free to do that via e-mail. If you know of interested Dooyeweerd students or scholars who are not part of Thinknet, please feel free to forward this message so they can come if possible.
WYSOCS 21st Birthday Weekend
June 2007 sees the celebrations for 21 years of WYSOCS. The special guest and speaker is Bishop Tom Wright. On 25th June 5 pm he will be speaking on 'Thinking about God in tomorrow's world' and then on 26th June 10.30 am on 'Whatever did Paul do with the kingdom of God'. There is also lots of food!Full details are available here.
Climate Change and Global Warming
WYSOCS is organising a conference on Climate Change and Global Warming on Saturday 2nd Decemebr 2006. The speakers are Bob Goudzwaard and John Houghton. They will speak on 'Unmasking the ideologies obstructing global economic change' and 'Global warming: a challenge to scientists and Christians' respectively. Full details and a booking form can be obtained here.
Congreso Internacional 2006 (CI06)
November 14-19, 2006
Convent of San Francisco
Granada, Nicaragua
Hosted by Polytechnic University (UPOLI)
Languages: English and SpanishThere are three track discussions: (1) How does Christian higher education bridge gaps between competing cultures/worldviews? (2) What can Christian higher education do to promote educational well-being? and (3) How does Christian higher education connect kingdom citizenship to specific regional issues and crises?
The conference is bilingual (English and Spanish) with simultaneous translation provided for most sessions.
IAPCHE is the only international membership group that brings together Christian scholars dedicated to integral research and teaching.
Colloquium for 'Reformationals' in the British Isles
27th-28th October 2006
WYSOCS (West Yorkshire School of Christian Studies) is hosting a conference for our growing UK “reformational” constituency.
We need to get to know one another and think strategically about the influence of the Christian scholarly/philosophical tradition associated with Kuyper, Dooyeweerd and Vollenhoven. Lesslie Newbigin told us here in 1992 that Britain urgently needs to know this tradition and the reformational movement is making some headway; hence the proposed in-house meeting.
It isn’t just a matter of the inroads that can be, or have been, made into the university; it is important also to find imaginative ways of bringing the dynamic of the reformational Kingdom-vision into the lives of our churches and other Christian organisations.
Two days would serve to investigate the following. Where are we with reformational life and philosophy in UK? Who is interested? Who is familiar with the material? Who is expert? Who is writing and teaching on reformational lines? How is it being studied, developed, applied? What are its impact and potential? What other resources have we (libraries, centres of activity, web-sites)? Can they be better linked? Do we use our contacts abroad? Can we spread the net wider? Who is travelling in the same direction? How can we impact the exuberant Christian youth organisations, conferences etc.?
WYSOCS explicitly seeks to advance Christian Higher Education (in whatever form the Lord makes available). The role of Christian Philosophy in such a project will be crucial and this Colloquium should ignite our imaginations with such a target in mind.
Kerry Hollingsworth has announced the The Reformational Publishing Project . The Project will parallel the work of the Dooyeweerd Translation Project of the Dooyeweerd Centre by publishing a select number of key works of the colleagues and students of Dooyeweerd rather than the actual writings of Dooyeweerd himself. The criteria for selection of titles is that the work in question demonstrate a clear utilization of the systematics of the Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea.
Published works will bear the imprint of Paideia Press which the Reformational Publishing Project has reactivated. During its former active period, Paideia published 273 titles.
