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Imaginatively Humankind Dwells: The Necessity Of The Imagination For Divine-Human Commun(E)Ication, Tracey-Ann Pypker-Van Brenk

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Poured Out On Your Sons And Daughters: Pneumatologically Shaped Pedagogical Practices For Engaging Children In Congregational Worship, Angela Perigo, Jeremy Perigo

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From young children to elders in the community, the Holy Spirit’s empowering presence is indiscriminate of age, ability, gender, culture, or status. Many communities continue to wrestle with the pastoral and practical implications of welcoming children into worship as full, distinct participants, yet within the biblical narrative, children are included as full participants in experiencing the Spirit’s gifts and empowerment and encountering God’s dynamic presence. Emerging from the discipline of practical theology and a review of New Testament pneumatology from Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 12, this paper argues for the full inclusion of children within the church’s worship life …

The Task And Educational Framework Of Dordt University, 2025, Dordt University

Dordt Foundational Documents

The Task and Educational Framework of Dordt University serves as the biblically-based, confessional foundation for the entire academic enterprise of Dordt University.

The Diamond, November 8, 2024, Dordt University

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: Dordt Students to Attend UN Climate Change Conference; Election Night Watch Party: Dordt Students Witness History in the Making; Retired Missionary and Wife of Martyr, Phyliss Masters Gives Testimony at Dordt
• News: Cell Phone Bans Spreading Throughout Northwest Iowa Schools; Dodgers Beat Yankees 4-1 to Win World Series; Students Experience Rejuvenation Through The Well
• Feature: The Conjuring Meets Little Women: Dordt Professor Releases First Novel; Senior Spotlight; Northwestern Gears Up for NCDC; Professor Natalie Griffioen Joins the Philosophy Department
• Politics: Defenders Vote in their First Presidential Election; Trump's Leapfrog Return; Dordt Students Discuss …

Everything Matters: Gordon Spykman - A Neo-Calvinist Theologian, Steve Bishop

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Missing In Action, Cal Seerveld

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No abstract provided.

Three Tributaries, Exploring The Reformed, Baptist, And Catholic Branches: A Review Of The Church's Book, David Westfall

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"If our conversations about the Bible, its meaning, and its authority seem always to prove fruitless, perhaps this is a better place to start."

Posting about the book The Church's Book 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/three-tributaries-exploring-the-reformed-baptist-and-catholic-branches-a-review-of-the-churchs-book/

Richard Wilbur's Book Of Nature, William Tate

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Whole Life Worship: A Review Of Work And Worship, Jeremy Perigo

Staff Work

"Kaemingk and Willson’s integration of liturgy and labor is well-researched and creates needed theological and liturgical bridges between work and worship."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Work and Worship 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/whole-life-worship-a-review-of-work-and-worship/

Are Christian Schools Worth Having?, Robert Bruinsma

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The Diamond, April 4, 2019, Dordt College

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: Theology Department Bands Together After Loss; Kansas City Business Trip: Taking Advantage of Opportunities; Talk to the Hand: Tools for Job-Hunting at Dordt
• News: Welcome to Walmart: Superstore's New Greeter Policy; Authors Answer Questions at Writing Club Event; Canada Night Shares Tradition from our Northern Neighbors; Bringing a Nation Together: Impacts of Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe; Sioux Center's Newest Clothing Store: Outlet 75; Robert Mueller Investigation Concludes; Nursing Students Host Health Fair at Grille
• Arts & Entertainment: This Bright Darkness: A Book Review; Review: Imaginative Dumbo Doesn't Satisfy; After Months of Work, Pre-Mortem Receives Recognition; The Opera …

The Diamond, March 22, 2019, Dordt College

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: White-Out Blows Through Spring Music Tour; How Dordt Heats Up in Winter; Faith, Family, and Football
• News: Stress in College Students; Bernie Sanders: From Dark Horse to Revolutionary Lion; Christian Diversity at Dordt; Colorado Springs: Good Work
• Arts & Entertainment: Laura Andersen Directed Northanger Abbey; Harriet Tubman Musical; Are the Jonas Brothers Finally Back?; Captain Marvel Shoots for the Stars
• PLIA: Panama City Beach - Reaching Out to the Spring Breakers; Diary of a First-Time PLIA Leader; PLIA at New Orleans
• Feature: Christina Edmonson Speaks at First Mondays; Opinion: New Weight Room Could Use Some Work; Changes …

The Educational Task Of Dordt University, 2019, Dordt University

Dordt Foundational Documents

In 2015, a committee was charged with updating the language of this document and renewing a commitment of ownership among a new generation of campus faculty and staff. In 2018, after three years of revision and renewal, the Board of Trustees approved The Educational Task in its current form. This document now serves as the biblically-based, confessional foundation for the entire academic enterprise of Dordt.

A Review Of Robert Sweetman's Tracing The Lines: Spiritual Exercise And The Gesture Of Christian Scholarship, Calvin Seerveld

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Reviewed Title: Tracing the Lines: Spiritual Exercise and the Gesture of Christian Scholarship by Robert Sweetman. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2016. 177 pp. ISBN: 9781498296830

Reading In Context: Zacchaeus And The Economics Of Salvation, Benjamin J. Lappenga

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"One way to go about shaking ourselves from the interpretive grooves (ruts!) formed by our Western assumptions is to encounter a reading of a well-known text that seems shocking at first, until the 'new' reading focuses our eyes upon the biblical words themselves."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­Zacchaeus' salvation story 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/zacchaeus-and-the-economics-of-salvation/

Faith And Allegiance, Benjamin J. Lappenga

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"I’d like to devote attention to some ways these books address biblical and theological topics that animated the Reformation debates and continue to garner interest today."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­two book reviews 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.

http://inallthings.org/faith-and-allegiance/

The Ruralists, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat

The Voice

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Hearing God's Voice, Benjamin J. Lappenga

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"What is the relationship between the Bible and theology? Gregory Lee’s Today When You Hear His Voice is a delightful companion on this journey, both in what it gets right and where it exposes where we often go wrong in our use of the Bible."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­Gregory Lee's book 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/hearing-gods-voice/

New Covenant God Will Make, James W. Skillen

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Dr. Skillen's essay is part of a book project, tentatively titled God's Sabbath with Creation, exploring (1) the meaning of our creaturely responsibilities in relation to the progressive development of the biblical covenants and (2) the relation of this age to the coming age - creation and eschatology.

The Diamond, April 20, 2016, Dordt College

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: Musical Talent Abounds at NCDC 2016; Ideafest: A Recital for Academics; Dutch International Students: Ain't Dutch Ain't Much
• News: Most Boring Campus?: Dordt's Secret Drinking Culture; Double Feature: Twins on Campus; Juggling Club Tosses Around Performances; Yearly Graduation Ticket Shortages; Shakespeare in College: Students Present at Early British Literature Conference; Dordt's Future: Administration and Students Weigh In; Athletics vs. Academics--Or is It?
• Opinion: Letter from the Editor; The Netflix Corner: An Idiot Abroad; Final Thoughts of a Graduate; Immigration Stipulation; ARTs: Not the Advanced Reformed Thought Kind
• Sports: New Football Culture Culminates in Spring Finale; Good Weather Finally …

I Still Believe: Leading Bible Scholars Share Their Stories Of Faith And Scholarship (Book Review), Jamin Hubner

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Reviewed Title: I Still Believe: Leading Bible Scholars Share Their Stories of Faith and Scholarship. John Byron and Joel Lohr, eds. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015. 249 pp. ISBN: 970-0310515166.

Repose In Mystery: The Limit Of Sobriety According To John Calvin, Jan Van Vliet

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This is a revised version of a paper Dr. Jan van Vliet presented at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 18, 2009, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The Voice, Winter/Spring 2016: Volume 61, Issue 2, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

• Leading Off With the President: Standing on the Rock
• Editor's Notes: A Global Orientation
• News: Dordt Hosts Agriculture Summit; Nature Geoscience Features Research by Dordt's Visscher; Faculty Bits; Dordt Explores Offering Two-Year Professional-Technical Programs; Kuyper for Non-Scholars: Newly Translated Works are Published; Visser Receives Career Honor; A College Democrats Club Joins the Republicans Club; VanTol Helps Make a Place for Special Needs Children in Nicaragua; Lappenga's New Book Looks at Paul's "Language of Zeal"; New Stats Textbook Published; Campus Kudos; Summer Prairie Serve Project Being Planned; Fall Athletics Wrap-Up and a Preview of What's New
• Features: Putting a Number on …

Sanctified By God's Word: Towards A Websterian Ontology Of Scripture And Church, Benjamin J. Lappenga

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John Webster’s account of Scripture grants the canonical texts an ontology determined by their divine use, discusses Scripture as an aspect of the doctrine of revelation rather than the church, and above all preserves the capacity of God’s Word to question and form believers. Yet, Webster’s proposal has met resistance from theologians who find his accent on sola scriptura inconsistent with his claim that interpretation (not simply “text”) has ontological force as a part of “sanctification.” This paper asks whether it is possible to retain a robustly Websterian account of Scripture while at the same time denying that Scripture’s primacy …

"Speak, Hannah, And Do Not Be Silent": Pseudo-Philo's Deconstruction Of Violence In Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum 50-51, Benjamin J. Lappenga

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This article argues that the movement from Hannah’s silent prayer in 50.5 (‘Hannah did not want to pray out loud’) to her bold declaration in 51.5 (‘I will speak my words openly’) interrupts a narrative trajectory involving violent zeal in Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum. Throughout the narrative, the prayers of key individuals for God’s merciful action on behalf of the people are rendered efficacious by acts of zeal (zelus) that are both public and violent (47.1–3). By contrast, Hannah’s act of silent prayer (framed as ‘zeal’ in 50.5) is accepted as the accompanying act for the people’s prayer (51.2). This vicarious …

James 3:13-4:10 And The Language Of Envy In Proverbs 3:21-35, Benjamin J. Lappenga

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Although a few interpreters have noted in passing the numerous verbal links between James 3:13–4:10 and LXX Prov 3:21–35, James’ passage is regularly read as a polemic against jealousy that is most at home within Hellenistic moral literature. This paper argues that the literary and thematic coherence of James 3:13–4:10 derives not primarily from the Hellenistic topos on envy (so Luke Timothy Johnson) but from metaleptic interplay with Prov 3:21–35. That is, the explicit appeal to “the scripture” in James 4:5 and the citation of Prov 3:34 in James 4:6 indicate that the tropes usually interpreted against the backdrop of …

Bible Stories No One Talks About, Mark Verbruggen

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"These are real people, messed up and sinful people, and yet they are the ones used by God to advance his Kingdom of grace and truth in Jesus Christ."

Posting about dealing with ­­­­­­­­the unpleasant narratives in the Bible 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/bible-stories-no-one-talks-about/

Cultivating A Biblical Imagination, Jason Lief

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"There are parts of the Bible that are puzzling, difficult, and downright mysterious."

Posting about being open to God's Word in new ways 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/cultivating-a-biblical-imagination/

Revisiting The Merits Of A Contested Discipline: Reflections On The Study Of Old Testament Theology, Benjamin J. Lappenga

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The Voice, Spring/Summer 2015: Volume 60, Issue 3, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

• Leading Off With the President: @DordtPresident
• Editor's Notes: Transition
• News: Analyzing What's in the Stuff Around Us; Come and Read What You Want; Faculty Bits; Campus Kudos; Getting It Straight From the Composer; Listening Makes a Difference in Nursing; Ribbon Cutting; Men's Volleyball Eyes First Varsity Season; Seeing Solar Energy Use; Research Opens New Way to Look at Cancer Cells; Grad Ed Bucks the Trend; Standardized Testing, Help or Harm: A Faculty Reflection; Have Quilt, Will Travel; Students Lead Push for Sustainability
• Features: Dordt Takes Its Turn Hosting Concrete Canoe Competition; Ag Students Head to the Feed Lot; Nurturing …