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The Herman Dooyeweerd Library Collection: Author-Title Citations
No full textThe Herman Dooyeweerd Library Collection represents a portion of the books, journals and ephemera collected by Dr. Dooyeweerd during his lifetime. Arriving in 100 egg crates from Amsterdam in 1978, the final items of this collection were catalogued into the ICS library collection in 2015. There are approximately 4,600 accessioned titles. When marginalia has been discovered in the item, it has been noted in the call number area of the citation
M.C. Smit Collection. Research Notebooks. Fond 001-005
No full textContains notebooks written by Smit pertaining to various historical, theological, and philosophical topics as well as the development of courses taught by Smit at the VU
M.C. Smit Collection. Interdepartmental Correspondence and Committee Documents. Fond 001-0012
No full textLiberating Tradition
No full textMaster's ThesisThis thesis explores the potential for critical transformation within religious traditions by examining Latin American Liberation Theology through the lens of Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutical phenomenology. It argues that Ricoeur’s concepts of cultural imagination and collective memory provide a robust philosophical framework to understand how religious communities can generate self-critical movements from within, rather than in opposition to, their own traditions. Using the case of Liberation Theology—a movement that reinterprets Christian doctrine to address systemic oppression in Latin America—this work analyzes how reinterpretations of religious narratives can inspire social and political action toward justice. The study traces how Liberation Theology operates both ideologically, by uniting communities around shared memories of suffering, and as a utopia, by envisioning transformed futures grounded in biblical hope. Through detailed engagement with Ricoeur's theory, the thesis demonstrates how religious traditions, when reimagined through faithful and innovative memory practices, can become dynamic sources of liberation rather than instruments of oppression
Justice and Faith Research Project: Literature Review
No full textA partially annotated literature review for the two-year SSHRC Partnership Development Research Project, Justice and Faith: Individual Spirituality and Social Responsibility in the Christian Reformed Church in Canada.Justice and Faith ProjectThe Justice and Faith project is a partnership between the Institute for Christian Studies' Centre for Philosophy, Religion, and Social Ethics, the Canadian Ministries of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, and the Centre for Community Based Research. It is funded by a Partnership Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and by cash and in-kind contributions from the research partners.SSHRC Partnership Development Gran
Aristotle's Political Philosophy at the Crossroads of Ethics and History
No full textThis course examines the intimate relationship between Aristotle's Nichomachean and Eudemian Ethics, his historical/reflective account the Constitution of Athens, and his Politics. We will use Aristotle’s own interdisciplinarity to examine how it has served to inspire and challenge modern political-theoretical understandings of human communal life marked by sharp bifurcations between public and private, fact and value, political and ethical, systematic and historical. We will end by asking investigate what and how our reading of the two Ethics, the Constitutions and Politics can serve or challenge a faithful Christian political witness in the context of contemporary Western political culture
Kuyper's Razor? Rethinking Science and Religion, Trinitarian Scholarship and God’s Eternity
No full textThis article explores three research fields in contemporary Christian scholarship and argues that the way they are approached is often questionable due to the basic assumptions, the methods or the implications. The following allegations are proposed. Research on the relationship between religion and science is based on a framework of assumptions which does not reflect the biblical standpoint properly. Trinitarian scholarship expects too much from the presumed correspondence between Trinity and created reality, whilst it tends to neglect other resources available to Christian scholarship. Scientific reflection on God’s eternity is speculative in as much as it tries to transcend the modal horizon of knowledge. In these three cases (other cases are also briefly mentioned) it is argued that ‘Kuyper’s razor’ (an approach promoted in the Kuyperian reformational tradition) would help rethinking research in these areas
