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Adam Boreel (1602–1665): A Collegiant's Attempt To Reform Christianity (Book Review), Kyle J. Dieleman
Adam Boreel (1602–1665): A Collegiant's Attempt To Reform Christianity (Book Review), Kyle J. Dieleman
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Reviewed title: Adam Boreel (1602-1665: A Collegiant's Attempt to Reform Christianity by Francesco Quatrini. Leiden: Brill, 2021. 423 pp. ISBN: 9789004420007.
Incorporating Perspectival Elements In A Discrete Mathematics Course, Calvin Jongsma
Incorporating Perspectival Elements In A Discrete Mathematics Course, Calvin Jongsma
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Discrete mathematics is a vast field that can be explored along many different paths. Opening with a unit on logic and proof and then taking up some additional core topics (induction, set theory, combinatorics, relations, Boolean algebra, graph theory) allows one to bring in a wealth of relevant material on history, philosophy, axiomatics, and abstraction in very natural ways. This talk looks at how my 2019 textbook on discrete mathematics, focused in this way, came to be, and it highlights the various perspectival elements the book includes.
Tribute To Gene Chase, Calvin Jongsma
Tribute To Gene Chase, Calvin Jongsma
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Gene’s academic work was always one of service to God, his students, and his colleagues, and his intellectual passion was to promote the development of Christian perspectives on various aspects of the field. His contributions to the ACMS have been much appreciated and, God willing, may still bear fruit into the future.
Ghosts Of America's Past, Present, And Future: A Review Of Preparing For War, Scott Culpepper
Ghosts Of America's Past, Present, And Future: A Review Of Preparing For War, Scott Culpepper
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"Despite our theologies of human sinfulness, we somehow thought people would prove better than that. They didn’t. The stakes are too high for complacency."
Posting about the book Preparing for War from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/ghosts-of-americas-past-present-and-future-a-review-of-preparing-for-war/
Hope For Harmony: A Review Of Women In The Mission Of The Church, Kate Vander Veen
Hope For Harmony: A Review Of Women In The Mission Of The Church, Kate Vander Veen
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"Creation alone shouts the blessings of heterogeneity over the paucity of uniformity. The coalescing of our differences is part of God’s greater story."
Posting about the book Women in the Mission of the Church from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/hope-for-harmony-a-review-of-women-in-the-mission-of-the-church/
Earthkeeping And Character: Exploring A Christian Ecological Virtue Ethic (Book Review), Jeff Ploegstra
Earthkeeping And Character: Exploring A Christian Ecological Virtue Ethic (Book Review), Jeff Ploegstra
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Reviewed Title: Earthkeeping and Character: Exploring a Christian Ecological Virtue Ethic by Steven Bouma-Prediger. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2020. 198 pp. ISBN: 9780801098840.
Faith Lived Out In Love For Community: A Review Of In Search Of Common Good, Justin Bailey
Faith Lived Out In Love For Community: A Review Of In Search Of Common Good, Justin Bailey
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"Meador’s book is about the possibility of common life amid contemporary fragmentation."
Posting about the book In Search of Common Good from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/faith-lived-out-in-love-for-community-a-review-of-in-search-of-common-good/
Are You Mad(Ness)?, Ross Douma
Are You Mad(Ness)?, Ross Douma
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"The lure and fascination of athletics in our culture stems largely from the unpredictable outcome and untamed responses of the participants. As we tune in over the course of the next several weeks and stare intently at our television sets rooting for the Davids of the college basketball world, we might be better served to have a mirror nearby to ensure we are reflecting the glory of the Lord."
Posting about March Madness, players, and fans from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for …
Supporting Football: The Physical Damage Of The Game, Greg Youngblood
Supporting Football: The Physical Damage Of The Game, Greg Youngblood
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"How ethical it is to support football since it is a sport that 'wreaks devastation on brains and condemns many players to diminished brain functioning, premature dementia, and the like.' ... Instead of asking if supporting football is moral or not I believe we should be asking ourselves as players, coaches, and fans how can we use the gifts, talents and abilities God has given us to create a culture in sports where we demonstrate the spirit of God and work for his glory."
Posting about the morality of supporting football as well as ethics in football from a Christian …
Together We Make Football, Timothy Van Soelen
Together We Make Football, Timothy Van Soelen
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"We have paid the culture of sports the ultimate compliment--we study it, we talk about it, we give some of our treasures to it, and we too often imitate it."
Posting about Christians and the role of sports and athletics from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/together-we-make-football/
Love, Creation, Virtue As Models For Environmental Education, Jeff Ploegstra
Love, Creation, Virtue As Models For Environmental Education, Jeff Ploegstra
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A look at how love, creation, and virtue should shape our conversations about the environment and environmental education.
Karl Barth's Mozart: Lessons For Christian Music Education, John Macinnis
Karl Barth's Mozart: Lessons For Christian Music Education, John Macinnis
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The author considers Barth's thoughful and emotional engagement with Mozart's music and argues that "Christian music educators are in a special place for raising similar questions about music's contributions to human flourishing, its roles in personal progress, and the mysteries of common grace in which God's glory can be sounded from even unknowing servants."
Facing Christian America's Sacred Ire: Can Christian Historians Successfully Bridge The Gap Between Professional Integrity And Populist Constituency?, Scott Culpepper
Facing Christian America's Sacred Ire: Can Christian Historians Successfully Bridge The Gap Between Professional Integrity And Populist Constituency?, Scott Culpepper
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Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Conference on Faith and History held September 24-27, 2014 on the campus of Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
Beauty Of Diversity And The Problem Of Multiculturalism, Paul Fessler
Beauty Of Diversity And The Problem Of Multiculturalism, Paul Fessler
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A biblical view of diversity celebrates all of God's people from all different ethnic groups as the image-bearers of God.
Henry Ford And The Cultural Mandate: Employees As Image Bearers And Other New Realities For Biblically Obedient Management Practices, Erik Hoekstra
Henry Ford And The Cultural Mandate: Employees As Image Bearers And Other New Realities For Biblically Obedient Management Practices, Erik Hoekstra
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Presentation from the regional conference for Europe of the International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education (IAPCHE) in August 2005, hosted by St. Andrew's Biblical Theological Institute in Moscow, Russia.
Reformed Theological Ethics Of Speech Communication, Charles Veenstra
Reformed Theological Ethics Of Speech Communication, Charles Veenstra
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This project develops and applies a Biblically-based Reformed theological system of ethics for speech communication.
The dissertation includes a review of literature on ethics in speech communication and indicates that: 1) ethics is a significant concern in the field of speech communication, 2) no single normative ethical theory dominates, 3} each normative ethical theory currently advocated faces significant problems, 4) critical pieces applying normative standards are few, 5) little attention is given to ethics of religious speakers or broadcasters, and 6) the normative ethical theory based in Reformed theology, which is the subject of this dissertation, is undeveloped in the …