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AVG: A little cubbyhole of an office in Toronto, and out of that job I C’ gained a lot of experience which will help me in this one. I travelled from coast to coast, promoting a certain cause, namely, Chris tian higher education, and talked with people .in congregational meetings, young people’s societies, high schools, and parents’meetings. This really helped me to get to know the CRC, to see the similarities across the country and’to see how each community was different, how each had its own character. I guess it gave me a greater appreciation for my church and a greater awareness of Christian education. RLS: What kinds of things do you look forward to in your capacity as Director of Development for AACS?
AVG: Meeting people, on an informal as well as a formal basis. And trying to get the Christian community to understand the need for Christian education at all levels. I also look forward to meeting people from outside the Perspective newsletter is published bi Reformed community. I think the Reformed per monthly by the Association for the can be of value to Christian groups Advancement of Christian Scholarship, spective 229 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, that are trying seriously to make their beliefs Canada MST IR4. more relevant to society rather than keeping Authorized Second Class Postage paid, them within their own church walls and tradi to the USA and Territories, mailed from tional patterns. the AACS Foundation, 3201 Burton Street SE., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49506. All other copies mailed under RLS: How do you think this kind of thing can authorized Second Class privileges from be done? Toronto, Ontario. Send all address C changes and other inquiries directly to AACS, 229 College Street, Toronto, AVG: One idea is to hold one—day workshops on Ontario M5T 1R4. a specific topic, such as family, 9 stewardship, things close to the con cerns of people themselves. They would be informal events, led by local people as much as possible and by those involved in the AACS/ICS, and the emphasis would be on service. Hopefully this will put out a link between theoretical thought on a sophisticated level and a practi cal way of living. This might appeal to long—time AACS supporters and to new contacts both inside and outside of the Reformed community. RLS: Do you have any apprehensions about the work you will be doing?
AVG: Well, I’m worried about how to approach people and ask them for money when we’re in an economic reces sion, but I feel confident enough about the worth of the cause to ask nonethe less.
“Our task is to make those ideas RLS: Your work will involve a good deal which have proven to be fruitful of writing. How does that suit ones continually relevant.” you?
AVG: Since I like writing, I’m looking forward to that. Working on the CCCS project and now writing as a reporter for Calvinist Contact has given me lots of experience. And I like to write letters. Hopefully I ‘flan continue to write for Calvinist Contact because the kinds of articles ‘ I like to write cover events people in the community are involved in, like the CRTC hearings on Christian broadcasting, Bob Goudzwaard’s talks on nuclear arms, and the things organizations linked to the AACS are involved in, like native rights or El Salvador. This lets other people know what Christians who know that the Lord claims all of life are doing. RLS: For the past two years you have been enrolled at the University of Toronto in graduate studies in Canadian history. You grew up in a Dutch immigrant community, attended Christian schools set up by this community and now you are doing a Master’s thesis on it. Why did you choose this topic? AVG: There are many reasons, but one is that I wanted to help carry on the ideas and practical involvements of the Dutch Reformed community, for example, in setting up Christian schools, the Christian Labour Associa tion, the AACS, etc. I’m a part of the second generation of this community but I want to do what. I can with others to maintain that and to make it more relevant to a changing society. Through my thesis work I can come to understand how the Christian Reformed community attempted to live in the midst of Canadian society and adapt to it in the 1950s. I think this can help us to understand the way we have organized CRC life in Canada, why it is the way it is, and how it might have to be changed due to the fact that we live in a Canadian society of the ‘80s, where there are different issues, a different mentality, a different economic situation. Just as -Canada has changed, so have we. We’re nore prosperous, established; we’ve ( iuilt a name for ourselves outside of our community. The reasons we first established Christian schools, for example, have changed. However, the ideas behind them should be maintained, that is, that education is not a
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( A close look at the Synod of Dort by John Valk ( During the months of February and March, the ICS offered a course entitled “An Inside Look at the Synod of Dort.” Donald Sinnema, an M.Phil. graduate of the Institute and currently a Ph.D. candidate at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, presented some results of his research on this international synod of 1618-19. This course, six sessions in duration was an historical and theological look at the events, discussions and controversies surround ing the formulation of one of the doctrinal standards of the Reformed chUrches. This Synod, held in the Dutch city of Dordrecht, was called——not by the churches but by the Dutch Estates—General——to settle the controver sial Arminian issue. Since the church and the Don Sinnema, ICS graduate, state had not yet reached complete separation, led even-lng course on Synod the government was naturally concerned about a of Dort. controversy which threatened to divide the Re formed churches of the Netherlands. Many delegates from foreign countries attended the Synod and so all sessions, except the last few when they had been dismissed, were conducted in Latin, a common language of scholarship at that time. The recordings of the ( Synodical proceedings were edited shortly afterwards for publication. Purposely deleted from the official “Acta” were those items offensive to attending nations or those hinting strongly at internal conflicts in Holland.
A large part of the course dealt specifically with the Arminian contro versy. Sinnema pointed out that much of Synod’s time was taken up with procedural wranglings. As a result, tempers rose and many delegates became hardened in their positions. The Calvinists came to the Synod with strongly held convictions on the Arminian position. The result was that the Synod was more occupied with formulating a judgment than with debating the issue in a way that new light could be shed. One of our class sessions was devoted to a study of the drafting of the Canons. It was discovered that the Canons, a term which is actually a misnomer, were not intended to be placed on the same level as the Heidelberg Catechism and the Belgic Confession. However, they became confessionally binding shortly after the Synod. These canons or Heads of Doctrine were presented to the world at the Great Church in Dordrecht on May 6, 1619, by Johannes Bogerman. This rather overbearing president of the Synod at the same time in a rather ruthless fashion ordered the Arminians to leave both the church service and the Synod. Further class sessions dealt with issues which were discussed once the Arminian and foreign delegations had been dismissed. These concerned confessional revisions, catechetical instruction and the church order. The church order formulated at the Synod of Dort still forms the back bone of the one presently used in Reformed denominations.
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He of C “I didn’t want to neglect my biology background and I wanted to work on phil osophical problems that had implications in the foundations of natural sci ence. I was convinced that the ICS was the place to do it.” It is pre cisely what Tim is now doing. Working closely with Senior Member Hendrik Hart, he is studying the philosophy of biology—-a kind of systematic philosophy of natural science. What does that mean to the rest of us? It involves, for example, the study of reductionism, that is, showing how biology is a science in its own right that cannot be dealt with totally by means of physics, chemistry and math. This has implications for evolution ism and other scientific theories. “I’ve noticed a lot of development in my thinking, “Tim states. “It’s incredible to note, really, how much.” Tim has one thing to say about ICS at this point in his studies. “It’s a great place”
A special event to take note of in the ICS community is that Tim married Anya Seerveld, daughter of Senior Member Calvin Seerveld, on May 14. Con gratulations, and may our Lord bless them both richly.
Like most students, MARK HENSMAN came to the ICS to get a Christian perspective on graduate studies. “My expectations were met, very much so,” he reports, “more than in my undergraduate work. There is a good consistency here and a genuine attempt to do Christian scholarship. This was pervasive through all the courses I took this year.” Mark moved to Toronto from Vancouver with his wife Manuela, who is employed by the Christian Labour Association of Canada. He began his post—secondary education in his home town of Detroit, Michigan, at Wayne State University. After one year he transferred to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he did a good deal of study in different disciplines, graduating with a B.A. degree in 1979. While a student at Calvin, he “... consistency here and enrolled in a culture and language program at the a genuine attempt to do Goethe Language Institute in Germany and the Uni Christian scholarship.” versity of Vienna in Austria, returning to North America a well—seasoned traveller fluent in German. He also spent a year of study at Simon Fraser University in’Vancouver before coming to the Institute. Mark’s interests lie in political theory and particularly in international relations. Because this field is relatively new to him, he will study part—time at the University of Toronto next year to get a more complete background in political science. He will continue to study with Senior Members Bernard Zyistra and Paul Marshall next year as well, working toward the completion of his M.Phil. program. JEFF SLOAN is the first Medical Doctor ever to be a full—time student at the Institute. What brings a doctor to interrupt his career for a year of study at a place like ICS? Jeff explains it this way. “I felt there were large gaps in my university training, particularly in integrating my faith with what I picked up in medical school. I wanted to develop a ( ,firmer sense of human beings as integrated beings. Up to that point I had been presented with a view of people that was a mechanistic approach.”
7 He has found Hendrik Hart and the interdisciplinary seminar this year (see story, page 10) very helpful in filling these gaps, especially in develop ing a systematic, wholistic perspective of human beings.- He appreciates the freedom and encouragement he was given by senior members to explore personal interests. Senior Member James Olthuis gave him advice and guidance in his work on such topics as faith healing and medical ethics.
A native of Sarnia, Ontario, Jeff graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1976 and from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1980. He has completed one year of post-doctoral work in family medicine and hopes to do another before prac tising full-time. He and his wife, Mieke, expecting their first child this summer, are committed to work for two years in an underserviced area. Jeff finds “frontier medicine” to be a challenge; both he and Mieke are interested in working with native Canadians and in living in northern Canada. The possibility Jeff Slocm, M.D., of eventually doing service in the third world is researched faith healing there too. In general, Jeff finds the cities to be and medical ethics. over—doctored, and would rather see the distribution of medical services become more equitable. Studying for a year at ICS “will make quite an impact on how I practise medicine,” says Jeff. “By having a wholistic, multi—dimensional view of people, it’s easy to realize how physical illness must exhibit itself in other dimensions of the human person, for example, in their faith life or in their emotional life. In a similar way, a variety of factors can work together to produce illness.” ( Jeff has appreciated getting to know Christian students from a variety of backgrounds who bring a variety of perspectives into the class. Despite his lack of training in and hesitation about doing philosophy, he enjoyed this year of study and would do it again. “I’ve developed a very beginning appreciation for Christian scholarship, although realizing at the same time that my calling in life is not Christian scholarship.” JIM PRALL, another student who is just completing the first year of his M.Phil. program, has made his reputation at ICS on the excellent imitations and renditions he does from Monty Python movies, much to everyone’s delight. Jim grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an avid science student. He attended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he enrolled as a political science major. Because he was inter ested in questions of social theory he also took some sociology courses on the side. Later on he decided to get a second major, this time in philosophy. It was during his senior year that he met someone on campus who told him Peter Steen, “a travelling Jim Prall had some idea Christian philosopher in the area,” was the man to what Christian scholar talk to. Steen was invited to start a group on ship was before coming to campus, which Jim attended. “I was hooked ‘Cs.
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(1. to r.) B. Zyistra D. Koyzis, David is continuing his studies in P. Marshall, c.Lenhardt3 a Ph.D. program at Notre Dame University in Indiana. David’s M.Phil. work at the Institute is being accepted as Master’s level, work at Notre Dame, giving him direct entry into the doctoral program there without having to take extra courses. His work at ICS is a base for his work at Notre Dame since he will continue to work on the relation between Christi anity and political theory. The final examination committee which approved the calibre and content of his work at the Institute included Zyistra, Dr. Paul Marshall, the other ICS staff member in political theory, and Dr. Christian Lenhardt, professor of political science at York University in Toronto and outside reader of David’s thesis. -
10 Seerveldwins prestigiousaward by Robert VanderVennen
Dr. Calvin Seerveld, Senior Member of Aesthetics at the Institute for /-‘Christian Studies, has won the James L. Clifford Prize for the best arti— ole on eighteenth—century studies published in 1980—81 by a member of the American Society for Eighteenth—Century Studies. Seerveld’s article is entitled “Telltale Statues in Watteau’s Painting.” It shows that Watteau used statues in the background of his paintings not merely for decoration but to express subtly his criticism of the fashion able society of his day. This fact seems to have been unnoticed by art historians. Seerveld’s special Christian sensitivity to the woridview, the religious spirit of the times, has helped him recognize how even de tails in art works express and give leadership to culture. In making the announcement of the award in Texas last month, the chairman of the awards committee said: “Calvin Seerveld’s ‘Telltale Statues in Watteau’s Painting’ is a stunning tour de force of iconographic interpre tation opening up a new approach to one of the major artists of the Rococo period.... Not the least of the strengths of the article is the combined elegance and lucidity of its presentation.” The Prize includes an award of $300. Persons interested in art history and interpretation can obtain a reprint of this prize—winning article, illustrated by twelve reproductions of Watteau’s paintings, for $1.50 from the AACS. The recognition given to this article shows that sometimes Christian schol arship which goes to the religious roots of culture is able to find deeper ( meaning which escapes others. This kind of Christian scholarship is needed to give leadership to Christians and to witness to the Lordship of Christ in all areas of life. Robert VanderVennen is Executive Director of the AACS.
AACS Remittance Form The AACS is an association of over 2,000 to pay a subscription fee of $8 per year. Canada and other countries members from 24 countries worldwide. Our Perspective ismailed to interested persons AACS purpose is to promote Scripturally directed in a total of 44 countries. 229 College Street learning and biblical reformation of scholar Toronto, Ontario ship. Our main project is the Institute of Members and other friends can financially M5T 1R4 Christian Studies, a graduate school for support AACS by making a donation to the research and teaching. following organizations: O Please send more information. 0 Enclosed is a donation. Membership is open to all who agree with U.S.A. 0 Enclosed is a subscription fee. the purpose and religious position of the AACS Foundation 0 I would like to become a member. Association. 3201 Burton Street, S.E. Please send me an application. Grand Rapids, MI 49506 Financial support is most welcome and NRmP needed, since most of our money must come Netherlands from donations. Donations in support of Calvinistic World Association * _,_,_____ our work are tax-deductible for residents of Potgieterweg 46 Canada, U.S.A. and The Netherlands, when 1851 CJ Hobo sent to the organizations listed below. (gironummer 17 75 496) Code Perspective is sent free of charge to all (specify for AACS) Postal members and donors. Non-donors are asked
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( Why do I appeal to you? Because the AACS is your organization. Because the ICS-is your institu tion. You are one of its members or special friends. You are a member (.\ or friend because you know that Christ is the light of the world. You know that that light must shine in the darkness of unbelief that has its grip on much of what goes on in the universities today. The AACS/ICS is one place where the light of the Gospel is brought to bear on the dark ness in the university world. That’s why you support it. That’s why it is your organization, your institution. That’s why——in the final analy sis——it is your responsibility.
We ask you to exercise that responsibility now. In your prayers. In your moral support. In making this campaign a success.
ICS finds refreshment in rural setting by Alison-Ann MacSwain What do you do with a group of scholars who have slaved through the winter with classes, papers and reading lists? You take them out of the city on a retreat and give them a chance to talk to each other instead of their typewriters! That’s exactly what we did at the Institute for Christian Studies April 21—22. Fifty students and staff piled into Marylake Retreat house in King City for an evening of song, storytelling, and skits brimming with creativity and the kind of humour that, as one Senior Member put it, “makes you feel loved.” This night of lively entertainment was quickly followed by a full day that started for the adventurous with an early morning “birding” expe dition. There was time to talk about our concerns and to brainstorm (isolutions to help keep ICS/AACS growing and serving. And later a sharing of ideas on how we perceive our roles, as men and women, in the scheme of things at the ICS. Outside we let loose our pent up energy in soccer, walks in the woods, and a flurry of games that kept us moving and laughing. As i-s our custom, we made a pilgrimage to the Chapel of St. Rita, the patron saint of desperate and impossible causes, where we each had a cause to present! And to close off our time of retreat a touching chapel with a meditation by Senior Member Dr. Hart. As we left it seemed to be with a feeling that we’d all come to care more for those we work, study, play and argue with on the fourth floor of 229 College. It’s a group I’m glad to have had a part of and am sorry Pow to leave. Alison—Ann MacSwain returns to her home in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, after a year of studies at ICS.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Dr. Bob Goudzwaard and Dr. Ron Sider will discuss “A Christian Response to Nuclear Armaments” in the Willingdon Mennonite Brethren Church, British Columbia, at 8:00 p.m. on August 5. This event is co—sponsored by the ICS, Christian Labour Association of Canada, Committee for Justice and Liberty, and Regent College. For details, con— ( tact Nick Loenen, ICS Western Office, 9331 #2 Road, Richmond, B.C. V7E 2C9; telephone (604) 274—
13 Keeping up with Pete Steen by Rosanne Lopers Sweetman (%s
Keeping up with Pete Steen is not easy, as any one of our staff who have had him escort them on a tour through his territory will testify. Known for being bold and forthright, Steen performs an invalu able task for the Institute for Christian Studies and related organizations. His name comes up fre quently but it may not yet be clear what Steen’s work involves and why it is worthy of mention in Perspective. Steen identifies himself as a “salesman.” He pro motes the ICS and the institutions that are a fall out of the reformational movement that H. Evan Runner began, that is, the inner reformation of the sciences, the whole renewal of life. His method is to provide a service for people. For instance, on campuses in western Pennsylvania and Ohio he regularly teaches courses on Christian Pete Steen: a woridview, introductory philosophy, and Bibly study, travelling Christian usually outside of the regular curriculum of the philosopher college he may be at. He also gives general advice and direction to students on careers, further studies, Christian colleges, and programs of study. In this way he is a great informational resource. ( He is an effective recruiter for the ICS, often directing five or six new students each year.to the Institute for further studies. These students consistently speak very highly of Steen and what he was able to do for them. He works as a contact between staff members of the AACS/ICS and prospective students, prospective donors, and local Christian organi zations that work with and serve students. Steen is also widely experienced in adult education, teaching courses in people’s homes and leading Bible studies. Sometimes the courses he teaches, on campuses and off, are given for academic credit, sometimes they are sponsored by voluntary groups, and some are set up through churches. Many of his connections in recent years have come through the Coalition for Christian Outreach, an organization based in Pittsburgh, although a good number still come about through his Own wanderings. A former professor at Trinity Christian College in Illinois and Geneva College, Pennsylvania, Steen has been working in the area of education for many years. Students he taught eighteen years ago are working along side him now in programs of adult education and campus work. Besides the time it takes him to drive to each place where he has courses and contacts, logging upwards of 30,000 miles on his Fiat yearly, Steen spends a lot of time on the telephone. He prefers using the telephone over letters, he admits, even when he does fundraising. He is not pri marily a fundraiser; he sees that as incidental to his work, although ( he may help those who do fundraising in the area by setting up contacts and appointments for them.
14 Curiously, his base of operations is a McDonald’s restaurant in his home town of Grove City, Pennsylvania. He spends eight—to eighteen—hour days studying and reading there, even receiving calls on the restaurant’s telephone. Steen sees his role in bringing the Reformed witness to western Pennsyl vania and Ohio. What does this mean? He brought the ‘Dutchmen and the Dutch influence” to the people in this area and opened them up to the philosophy and woridview articulated by people like Herman Dooyeweerd and D.H.T. Vollenhoven. What gives him a sense of security is that many Reformed—related organizations are starting programs there now. A recent conversation about outreach and services he had with representatives from ICS, Calvin College, Trinity Christian College, the Christian Reformed Church and Home Missions typifies this. Not identified solely with one organization, Steen promotes the whole cause of Reformed scholarship. One concrete way in which he tries to promote and be of service is in the ongoing preparation of a resource bibliography of articles, book and tapes by reformational scholars. Steen has a unique style of teaching. He may begin with a class of twelve to fifteen and end up with only two or three, but those that stick with him learn a great deal and are firmly committed to a reformational world— view. It is true, Steen likes to aggravate people and, by his own admis sion, he often makes enemies on purpose. He will cause a conflict in order to mediate it. He also has childlike curiosity and youthful exuber ance of which he is not naive but, rather, he trades and makes a strength of them. These are tricky techniques that take strategy and aesthetics (diplomacy). ( Raised in a cross—ethnic, Christian community in New Jersey, Steen is a streetfighter from way back. He admits that he never gained the diplomatic vocabulary of a scholar, but he is no slouch academi cally, having both a Master’s degree and a Th.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Steen calls himself, perhaps not inappropriately, an expert on Dooyeweerd. He is very demanding of his students, even though they may think he is not teaching them anything or ganized. His first rule of teaching is not to let people get bored. He is a big adherent of informal education. “Lack of dialogue is deadly, so is a lack of informality,” he says. “When a student can’t stop talking about thesubject he’s in, that’s when education is going on.” Steen does not operate with a schedule of speaking An aeademic with a engagements. He really is a travelling educational streetfighter ‘s evangelist, setting his own itinerary, arriving un vocabuiary. announced at least fifty percent of the time. He feels he needs to keep this kind of freedom to work in such an extensive geographic area. Without this kind of flexibility, he feels tied down and loses his steam. More and more of late he goes “at large,” getting outside of the eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania area into northeastern U.S., including such cities as Boston, Washington, Cincinnati, Toledo and Philadelphia. He also comes to Toronto regularly to keep in touch with recent scholarship and 15 developments at ICS and elsewhere. Recently he visited people in Hamilton, Ontario, who are setting up Redeemer College there so that he can advise people “back home” about this new college, too. Steen, not always in the best of health, is trying to reproduce himself in other people so that the work he has begun will continue and flourish even when he is not close at hand to spur things on. Perry Recker in Pittsburgh and Trace James who is now in Minnesota are two such people. Perhaps it sounds strange, but an academic with a streetfighter’s vocabu lary, zealous and persistent in pushing a good idea through, with a keen ability to reach students at critical points in their thinking and living, has been one of the greatest assets to the life of the Institute and a true blessing to the people he serves. Rosanne Lopers Sweetman is educational services coordinator for the AACS. Reflections of a year in campus outreach by Judy Jordet
A Lutheran, a former Catholic, a member of the Salvation Army Church and myself, a Presbyterian, all had something in common for seven months. We all were involved in a class I taught called “Biblical Woridview in a Secular Culture.”
I remember when AACS Campus Outreach Coordinator Brian Walsh asked me last August if I thought I’d like to teach the course at McMaster University in Hamilton through Inter—Varsity Chris tian Fellowship. I literally fell on my knees (those that know me can visualize me that passion ate) and assured him I would love to teach the course! I had taken the class myself the year before and happened to have my notes with me. Soon I was standing in front of the first campus meeting of Inter—Varsity trying to explain what the course was about and why the Christian student in the secular university should take the course with me. I centered my explanation of the course around John 3:16, Matthew 22:34-40, Colossians 1:15—20, and Matthew 6:10. The secular university would like Christians to believe that God is not concerned with amoeba, bridges, art, and telephones but our Bible indi cates that is just not so. God so loved the Cosmos that He sent His only Son. All things were made by Judy Jordet, Campus Him and for Him and all things are reconciled Outreach staffmernber, through Him. Our task as Christians, our witness, taught McMaster Univer is to claim His lordship over all of life from sity students engineering to biology and to represent His love for the world by being in the world but not of it. It is time for Christians to overcome the dominant secular worldview and begin to see the world as totally belonging to God. Satan wants us to believe the university belongs to this world and that this world does not belong to God. Rubbish, of course; this world belongs to God. He made it, 16
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In late March when I first decided to take in a session of the interdis ciplinary seminar, I was anxious to know what all the excitement of the year was about. Every available secretary for weeks had been recruited to type massive manuscripts for this seminar and duly pass them around to senior and junior members alike. I had caught the tail end of many an ex cited conversation between participants in the seminar about just where to present a certain point and how to make things clear. Throughout the year I frequently heard Hendrik Hart summon everyone into the classroom and after the scurry of many feet, one or two students, with anxious looks on their faces, entering the room just a little late, as is their wont. As a staff member for the AACS, I rarely have the occasion to pass through the classroom door when a class is in session, so I approached this occa sion with a good amount of curiosity and a little apprehension. Let me try to recount to you what I have learned as an “observant outsider.” First, a word about the theme of this seminar. The nature of humanity from a biblical point of view, or, a Christian anthropology, was the focus of study. Among other things, this included specific study areas such as play, child development, non—Western views of history, and the process by which we know and learn things.
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Theme: From Economic Distortion to Shalom I Speaker: Gerald Vandezande, Citizens for Public Justice Workshop leaders: Luke Wolthuis, Willem Spaans, Co Vanderlaan, Harry Houtman, John Hiemstra, and a panel on parents, teenagers and money Location: Gull Lake Baptist Camp and Christian Reformed Sonshine Camp, both near Lacombe, Alberta Conference Coordinator: Mel Huizinga 10616-144 Street Edmonton, AB T5N 2V6
BRITISH COLUMBIA (Lower Mainland) - September 3-6
Theme: From Communication to Community Speaker: Hendrik Hart, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Ontario Workshop leaders: John Byl, Hilda Buisman, Taproot Theatre Company Location: Lakeside Bible Camp, Whidbey Island, Washington Preacher: Rev. Bastiaan Nederlof Chairman: Lloyd Den Boer Registrar: Stan Pilon ( 14017-100 Avenue Surrey, B.C. V3T 1J7
BRITISH COLUMBIA (Skeena/Bulkley Valley) - July 31- August 2
Theme: God’s Word Speaker: John B. Hulst, President-elect of Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa Workshop leaders: Nick Loenen, others to be anhounced Chairman: Sid Zandberg Location: Pine Crest Resort, near Houston, B.C. Registrar: Ed Vandergrift P.O. Box 3178 Smithers, B.C. VOJ 2N0
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BERNARD ZYLSTRA’S paper “Karl Marx, Humanistic Radical,” which appear— ed in the December, 1973, issue of Vanguard magazine, has been translated into Spanish by Professor J.P. Roberts for a theology/philosophy series at the Seminario Teologico Juan Calvino in Mexico under the title “El Humanismo Postchristiano de Carlos Marx.”
HENDRIK HART published an article entitled “The Impasse of Rational— ityTl in Wetenschap, wijsheid, filosoferen (Van Gorcum, 1981). This book contains twelve essays in honour of Professor Hendrik Van Riessen upon the occasion of his retirement from the Free University in Amsterdam.
BERNARD ZYLSTRA’S chapter “Using the (U.S.) Constitution to defend Religious Rights” is part of the publication of the Christian Legal Society, Freedom and Faith: The Impact of Law on Religious Liberty, edited by Lynn Buzzard and available for $14.95 (U.S.) from Crossway Books, Westchester, Illinois.
CALVIN SEERVELD’S article “A Seller of Fish” appeared in the March, 1982, issue of Jubilee, a monthly paper in Belleville, Ontario, edited by AACS member David Botting.
BERNARD ZYLSTRA wrote four guest editorials on America, Russia ( and the “third world” in the February issues of Calvinist Contact. Persons interested in photocopies of these essays may contact the AACS. Three reviews written by HENDRIK HART were published in The Banner during April and May. The books he reviewed were The Wars of America: Christian Views, edited by Ronald A. Wells (Eerdmans, 1981); Hear, 0 Israel, by Pat Brooks (New Puritan Library, 1981), and The Church Between Temple and Mosque: A Study of the Relationship between the Christian Faith and other Religions, written by J.H. Bavinck and reprinted by Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1981. He also reviewed Irving Hexham’s book The Irony of Apartheid: the struggle for national independence of Afrikaner Calvinism against British Imperialism (Edwin Mellon Press, 1981), in the April, 1982, issue of The Reformed Journal. Senior Member 1CT. MCINTIRE had two reviews published recently in his torical journals. He reviewed David Bebbington’s book Patterns In History (Inter—Varsity Press, 1979) in Church History, Volume 50, 1981, and for the Catholic Historical Review he reviewed Langdon Gilkey’s book, Reaping the Whirlwind: A Christian Interpretation of History (Seabury Press, 1977). 1C.T MCINTIRE wrote an article published in Anakainosis, Volume 4, No. 2, on “Animals and the Modal Scale.”
PAUL MARSHALL wrote an article on “Pro—Life” which was published in the April 16, 1982, issue of Calvinist Contact. This was part of a ( multi-page insert on rights to life.
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( Institute for Christian studies Institutional Repository ARTICLE: 19821603 TITLE: Perspective: Newsletter of the Association for the Advancement of Christian scholarship
AUTHOR: Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship
ISSUE DATE: June 1982 TYPE: Journal
KEYWORDS:Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship, Institute for Christian Studies, ICS, AACS, Director of Development, Aileen Van Ginkel, Tim De Jager, Mark Hensman, Jeff Sloan, Jim Prall, David Koyzis, James L. Clifford Prize, Cal seerveld, Keeping up with Pete Steen, Reflections of a year in campus outreach, Biblical worldview in a secular culture,
NOTES: A close look at the Synod of Dort tAn Inside Look at the Synod of Dort], ICS awards 19th M.Phil. De9ree, Seerveld wins prestigious award, ICS Interdisciplinary seminar affirms community of scholars,
CITATION FORMAT: Perspective. Toronto, ON: Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship, 1982. dc.creator: Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship dc.contributor: valk, John dc.contributor: Sweetman, Roseanne Lopers dc.contributor: vandervennen, Robert E. dc.contributor: Jordet, Judy dc.title: Perspective: Newsletter of the Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship dc.date.issued: 1982-06-30 dc.date.accessioned: 2012-03-05 dc.type: journal dc . format. mi metype: appi i cati on/pdf dc.language.iso: en dc.subject: Humanities dc.subject: Institute for Christian studies--History dc.subject: Association for the Advancement of Christian Studies--History dc.subject: Institute for Christian Studies--Faculty--Interviews dc.subject: Van Ginkel, Aileen--Interviews dc.subject: Institute for Christian Studies--Congresses dc.subject: Synod of Dort (1618-1619) dc. subject: Christian Reformed church--Creeds dc. subject: Institute for christian studies--students dc. subject: Institute for Christian studies. MAin Philosophy dc. subject: James L. Clifford Prize dc. subject: Seerveld, Calvin--Awards dc. subject: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies--Awards dc. subject: Steen, Peter Junior, 1935-1984 dc. subject: Reformed philosophy dc . subject: Learning and scholarshi p--Religious aspects--Christianity dc. subject: World views dc. subject: Education, Higher--Religious aspects--Christianity dc . subject: Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship. Campus outreach dc. subject: Institute for Christian Studies-—Curricula dc.rights: copyright, Institute for Christian studies, all rights reserved.