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    • The Walking Dead Meets the Resurrection

      Ansell, Nicholas; Institute for Christian Studies (CPRSE, 2015-04-06)
    • Understanding Our World: an Integral Ontology

      Hart, Hendrik; Institute for Christian Studies (University Press of AmericaLanham, Md., 1984)
    • A Different Tenor: Songs of Love and Sorrow--Re-Engaging the Social Ethics of Music

      Smick, Rebekah; Zuidervaart, Lambert; Toronto School of Theology; Royal Conservatory of Music; Institute for Christian Studies (University of Toronto Press, 2011)
      The question of how music relates to our existence as ethical beings has not always elicited the same response. For much of the twentieth century, the relation between music and ethics was addressed from the angle of music's autonomy. Music was fenced off from society so that it might better fulfill its own internal demands. Thus, in answer to the question whether music has, or should have, an ethical dimension, the predominating philosophical answer of the twentieth century was solidly negative. The article that follows, a response to this negative point of view, reproduces a panel discussion that took place in April 2010 during a conference entitled "Songs of Love and Sorrow: Re-Engaging the Social Ethics of Music." Co-organized by the Institute for Christian Studies, the Toronto School of Theology, and the Royal Conservatory of Music, the conference attempted to bring to the musical arts a concern to re-evaluate the social significance of artistic experience and practice. Though not argued like an essay, the article highlights significant themes about the relationship of music to ethics, including the innately social character of music, its possible effect on our behaviour, the potential social content of sound itself, the positive social effect of music's ambiguity, the need to break down the barriers between music practitioners and interpreters, the role communities might play in sponsoring the work of musicians, and the possible compatibility between music's formal requirements and its potential for social engagement.
    • Turning Memory into Prophecy: Roberto Unger and Paul Ricoeur on the Human Condition Between Past and Future

      Kuipers, Ronald A.; Institute for Christian Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
    • Cross-Pressured Authenticity: Charles Taylor on the Contemporary Challenges to Religious Identity in a Secular Age

      Kuipers, Ronald A.; Institute for Christian Studies (Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, 2016)
    • Dooyeweerd's Conception of Truth: Exposition and Critique

      Zuidervaart, Lambert; Institute for Christian Studies (Association for Reformational Philosophy, 2008)
      A transformed idea of truth is central to the project of reformational philosophy. This essay lays groundwork for such an idea by proposing a critical retrieval of Herman Dooyeweerd's conception of truth. First it summarizes relevant passages in Dooyeweerd's New Critique. Then it demonstrates several problems in his conception: he misconstrues religious truth, misconceives its relation to theoretical truth, and overlooks central questions of epistemology and truth theory. By addressing these problems, reformational philosophers can find new ways to think about truth that retain the holism, normativity, and radicalness of Dooyeweerd’s conception.
    • Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund: Survey of Thought

      Zuidervaart, Lambert; Institute for Christian Studies (Oxford University Press, 1998)
    • Review of Adorno: the Recovery of Experience, by Roger Foster

      Zuidervaart, Lambert; Institute for Christian Studies (Philosophy Education Society, Inc., 2008-12)
    • Aesthetics

      Zuidervaart, Lambert; Institute for Christian Studies (Inter-Varsity Press, 1988)
    • Review of Art in Action: Toward a Christian Aesthetic, by Nicholas Wolterstorff

      Zuidervaart, Lambert; Institute for Christian Studies (Association for Reformational Philosophy, 1983)
    • Religion in Public: Passages From Hegel's Philosophy of Right

      Zuidervaart, Lambert; Institute for Christian Studies (University of Toronto, 2010)
      This article argues that religion is a public matter. The discussion proceeds in two stages. First I give a normative account of religion, the state, and their dialectical relationship. After proposing a new account of "religious truth," I suggest that religion has both critical and utopian roles toward the state. Then the essay examines the political and economic roles of religion in civil society, where religion both incubates civil-societal organizations and disturbs civil-societal patterns. I conclude that religious truth, properly understood, is not incompatible with democratic communication. Contra Richard Rorty, religion is not a "conversation-stopper."
    • Philosophical Aesthetics At Home With the Lord: An Untimely Valedictory

      Seerveld, Calvin; Institute for Christian Studies; VanderVennen, Robert E. (Institute for Christian Studies, 1996)
    • Existence, Nomic Conditions, and God: Issues in Henk Hart's Ontology

      Zuidervaart, Lambert; Institute for Christian Studies (Association for Reformational Philosophy, 1985)
    • Talking with Prometheus

      Zuidervaart, Lambert; Institute for Christian Studies (Calvin College, 1987-12)
    • Advent (Four Weeks)

      Sweetman, Robert; Carr, Allyson; Kuipers, Ronald A.; Institute for Christian Studies (Institute for Christian Studies, 2014)
    • The Development of Curriculum With Relation to the Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea

      Blomberg, D. G.; University of Sydney (1978)
      This thesis is concerned primarily with the philosophical foundations, and particularly the epistemological foundations, of a Christian approach to the school curriculum: we will construct a theoretical model of knowledge which may fruitfully inform the selection of goals and the establishment of criteria for the obedient progress of Christian education.
    • Creational Man / Eschatological Woman: a Future for Theology

      Ansell, Nicholas; Institute for Christian Studies (Institute for Christian Studies, 2006-05-26)
    • Aboard a Gull-Chased Ship

      Zuidervaart, Lambert; Institute for Christian Studies (CRC Publications, 1986-04-28)
    • Telltale Statues in Watteau's Painting

      Seerveld, Calvin; Institute for Christian Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1980)
    • Cultural Paths and Aesthetic Signs: A Critical Hermeneutics of Aesthetic Validity

      Zuidervaart, Lambert; Institute for Christian Studies (Sage Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi), 2003)
      Contemporary philosophical stances toward ‘artistic truth’ derive from Kant’s aesthetics. Whereas philosophers who share Kant’s emphasis on aesthetic validity discount art’s capacity for truth, philosophers who share Hegel’s critique of Kant render artistic truth inaccessible. This essay proposes a critical hermeneutic account of aesthetic validity that supports a non-esoteric notion of artistic truth. Using Gadamer and Adorno to read Kant through Hegelian eyes, I reconstruct the aesthetic dimension from three polarities in modern Western societies. Then I describe aesthetic validity as an horizon of imaginative cogency governing the exploration, presentation and creative interpretation of aesthetic signs. The essay argues that aesthetic processes, so construed, are crucial to cultural pathfinding, and that aesthetic validity-claims in art talk contribute significantly to this pursuit. Aesthetic validity, cultural orientation and art talk constitute the hermeneutical matrix from which questions of artistic truth emerge.