287 research outputs found
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 37 No 1 - April 2002)
No full textEditorial - 7 / Articles: Paradise Lost: Reading the Former Prophets by the Rivers of Babylon by Arie C. Leder - 9 / Rahab of Canaan and Israel: The Meaning of Joshua 2 by John H. Stek - 28 / Preaching Texts of Terror in the Book of Judges: How Does the History of Interpretation Help? by John L. Thompson - 49 / Reading Samuel to Hear God by Stanley D. Walters - 62 / The Former Prophets and the Practice of Christian Worship by John D. Witvliet - 82 / Scholia et Homiletica: Vengeance and the Fair Trial Venue: A Sermon on Joshua 20 by William T. Koopmans - 95 / Guile and Grief in Gideon\u27s Gold: A Sermon on Judges 8:27 by William T. Koopmans - 99 / The Costly Gift: A Monologue Sermon on 2 Samuel 24 by Stanley D. Walters - 103 / A Response to John Bolt\u27s Common Grace and the Christian Reformed Synod of Kalamazoo (1924) by Harry Boonstra - 113 / A Reply to Harry Boonstra by John Bolt - 117 / Book Reviews - Scripture and Interpretation: Hengel, Martin, The Four Gospels and the One Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Investigation of the Collection and Origin of the Canonical Gospels, reviewed by David Crump - 120 / McGrath, Alister E., In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 122 / McNutt, Paula M., Reconstructing the Society of Ancient Israel, reviewed by Simon J. DeVries - 124 / Mazar, Amihai, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E.; Stern, Ephraim, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods (732-332 B.C.E.), reviewed by Neal Bierling - 128 / Watts, Rikki E., Isaiah\u27s New Exodus in Mark, reviewed by Nick Overduin - 131 / Theology and History: Armstrong, Regis J., J. Wayne Hellmann, and William J. Short, Francis of Assisi: Early Documents. Vol. 2: The Founder, reviewed by Frans van Liere - 133 / Boice, James Montgomery, Whatever Happened to the Gospel of Grace?, reviewed by Michael Wittmer - 134 / Bolt, John, A Free Church, a Holy Nation: Abraham Kuyper\u27s American Public Theology, reviewed by James W. Skillen - 135 / Hughes, Richard T., How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind, reviewed by Michael Wittmer - 138 / Keener, Craig S., Gift and Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today, reviewed by Henry I. Lederle - 140 / Lambert, Frank, Inventing the Great Awakening , reviewed by T. Chris Crain - 141 / McInerny, Ralph, Characters in Search of Their Author: The Gifford Lectures, 1999-2000, reviewed by Arvin Vos - 142 / McKim, Donald K., Introducing the Reformed Faith: Biblical Revelation, Christian Tradition, Contemporary Significance, reviewed by Scott Hoezee - 146 / Muller, Richard A., The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition, reviewed by I. John Hesselink - 148 / O\u27Malley, John W., Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era, reviewed by John L. Thompson - 150 / Pinnock, Clark H., Most Moved Mover: A Theology of God\u27s Openness, reviewed by Michael Wittmer - 152 / Slater, T. R., and Gervase Rosser, The Church in the Medieval Town, reviewed by Frans van Liere - 154 / Sproul, R. C., The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts That Shaped Our World, reviewed by Edwin Walhout - 155 / Stewart-Sykes, Alistair, trans., Melito of Sardis: On Pascha, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 156 / van Asselt, Willem J., and Eef Dekker, eds., Reformation and Scholasticism: An Ecumenical Enterprise, reviewed by Donald Sinnema - 157 / Webb, Stephen H., Taking Religion to School: Christian Theology and Secular Education, reviewed by D. G. Hart - 160 / Wilson, Jonathan R., God So Loved the World: A Christology for Disciples, reviewed by Wayne Brouwer - 164 / Zuckert, Michael P., The Natural Rights Republic: Studies in the Foundation of the American Political Tradition, reviewed by David T. Koyzis - 165 / Church and Mission: Anderson, Ray S., The Shape of Practical Theology: Empowering Ministry with Theological Praxis, reviewed by Clayton Libolt - 167 / Beck, James R., and Craig L. Blomberg, eds., Two Views on Women in Ministry, reviewed by Wayne Brouwer - 170 / Behr-Sigel, Elisabeth, and Kallistos Ware, The Ordination of Women in the Orthodox Church, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 172 / Conn, Harvie M., and Manuel Ortiz, Urban Ministry: The Kingdom, the City, and the People of God, reviewed by Mark R. Gornik - 174 / Craddock, Fred B., The Cherry Log Sermons, reviewed by Roger Van Harn - 176 / Hasan, Asma Gull, American Muslims: The New Generation, reviewed by Bassam Michael Madany - 179 / Koffeman, Leo J., and Henk Witte, eds., Of All Times and of All Places: Protestants and Catholics on the Church Local and Universal, reviewed by Brother Jeffrey Gros, FSC - 182 / Larsen, David L., Biblical Spirituality: Discovering the Real Connection Between the Bible and Life, reviewed by Tom Schwanda - 184 / Tripp, Diane Karay, comp. and ed., Prayers from the Reformed Tradition: In the Company of a Great Cloud of Witnesses, reviewed by Tom Schwanda - 185https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/ctj/1072/thumbnail.jp
About Dale Cooper
No full textDale J. Cooper (b. 1941) is chaplain emeritus of Calvin College (now University), a position he held for thirty years, starting in 1979. The chaplaincy, he said, offered the best of three worlds—the opportunity to teach, to preach, and to be a pastor to 4,000 students. Cooper—known to decades of students as “Coop”—initiated the LOFT worship service on campus in 1996.
In 2008, after retiring from his role as chaplain and religion professor, Cooper joined the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship as a resource development specialist for liturgical spirituality. His contributions included a four-year run as author of Coop’s Column, featuring spiritual reflections on Christian worship. Cooper also became an adjunct faculty member in Calvin’s department of Congregational and Ministry Studies, where he has served as a pastoral mentor in the Jubilee Fellows program. With the advent of the Calvin Prison Initiative in 2015, Cooper also began teaching at the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility.
Cooper’s writings over the years have included a study guide to the Psalms, meditations for the Calvin journal Dialogue, and a twelve-part series highlighting John Calvin’s teachings for The Banner. Cooper was ordained in the Christian Reformed Church of North America in 1972. Before joining the Calvin College faculty in 1976, he worked for five years at Calvin Christian High School and Unity Christian High School.
In recognition of his extensive impact on campus and beyond, Cooper was named the recipient of Calvin’s Faith and Learning Award in 2017. He also received the Calvin Theological Seminary Distinguished Alumni Award in 2015.
Cooper earned a bachelor’s degree from Calvin College (1964), an MDiv degree from Calvin Theological Seminary (1968), and a doctorandus degree from the Free University of Amsterdam (1971). His family has established the Dale and Marcia Cooper Family Scholarship to benefit international students at Calvin. His stated life\u27s aim: To live faithfully as Jesus\u27 disciple for the world to see.https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/cicw-staff-work/1003/thumbnail.jp
Chimes: February 25, 2000
No full textTuition nears $19K by Nathan VanderKlippe
McCain wins Michigan, ensures long race by Melissa Slager
Racism summit faces past, forges future by Hillary Whitcomb
Crump gets reappointment despite controversial comments by Natasja VanderBerg
Students work as interns for McCain 2000, French embassy by Carolyn Davids
Professors form care group by Natasja VanderBerg
Project Neigborhood expands to second house by Barbara Pezet
Author Anne Lamott brings Christian voice to bestseller lists by Philip Christman
Men\u27s b-ball ties MIAA record by Leslie Pratt
Students Senate looks to eliminate appeals with budgeting changes by Nathan VanderKlippehttps://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/chimes/1435/thumbnail.jp
About Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
No full textCornelius (Neal) Plantinga Jr. (b. 1946) is a writer, preacher, and theologian who is president emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary (2001–2011) and an emeritus senior research fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (2012–2024). His prior roles within the Calvin community include professor of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary (1979–1996) and dean of the chapel at Calvin College, now University (1996–2001).
Plantinga was ordained in the Christian Reformed Church in North America in 1971 and served as pastor of Webster CRC in Webster, New York, from 1971 through 1975. He has been an active preacher and speaker throughout his career, including appearances at Calvin’s January Series (1993, 1997, 2013) and frequent participation in the Calvin Symposium on Worship and the Calvin Festival of Faith & Writing.
Plantinga is the author of several books, including Gratitude (2024), Under the Wings of God (2023), Morning and Evening Prayers (2021), Reading for Preaching (2013), Engaging God’s World (2002), Beyond Doubt (2001), and Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be (1996).
For more than a decade while on staff at CICW, Plantinga co-hosted a summer seminar for preachers in conjunction with the Center for Excellence in Preaching at Calvin Theological Seminary. These seminars led to the publication of Reading for Preaching, one of three of his books—along with Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be and Engaging God’s World—that have been named Book of the Year by Christianity Today.
Plantinga has had more than 230 articles and essays published in periodicals such as The Banner, Reformed Journal, Perspectives, Theology Today, The Thomist, First Things, Christianity Today, The Christian Century, and Books & Culture. He has served in editorial roles for Books & Culture, Calvin Theological Journal, and First Things.
Plantinga earned an AB degree from Calvin College (1967), a BD degree from Calvin Theological Seminary (1971), and a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary (1982). He has also been a visiting scholar at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge.https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/cicw-staff-work/1004/thumbnail.jp
The SuperBIT Hardware Design and a Constraint of the Tensor to Scalar Ratio r from the Spider I Polarized CMB Maps
No full text]Scientific ballooning experiments offer a number of advantages over space and ground based alternatives: they are lower cost, faster to deploy, and easily upgraded in contrast with satellites. As well, the ballooning environment, while quite harsh, has the benefit of raising the experiment above 99% of the atmosphere, as opposed to ground based experiments which are subject to seeing and absorptivity of the atmosphere even when atop the highest mountains. The subjects of this thesis are two examples of scientific ballooning experiments; Spider I, a cosmic microwave background experiment, and SuperBIT, an optical and near-UV observatory. The Spider I experiment is designed to constrain the tensor to scalar ratio, r; a parameter informing the allowed potential energy of the inflationary epoch thought to precede the standard cosmological model, ΛCDM. This thesis contains an analysis of the Spider CMB maps for a constraint on the parameter r, and includes the development of a bin to bin correlation transfer matrix, as well as the development of an auto-spectrum null-test procedure used for data qualification. The SuperBIT experiment is designed for cluster-galaxy weak gravitational lensing measurements to provide calibration data for future satellite experiments which are hoped will break the 1.5σ contention between the leading measurements of the cosmological parameters Ω M and σ8 taken from CMB data compared with that of other low redshift, Sunayev Zel’dovich measurements. To date no lensing data has been taken; however, a long duration flight is tentatively scheduled for 2021. This thesis contains a description of my contributions to the development of the SuperBIT hardware systems and optics.Ph.D.2022-11-30 00:00:0
Mapping Submillimetre Polarization with BLASTPol
No full textBLASTPol observes the linearly polarized emission from interstellar dust. Dust polarization traces magnetic fields, and submillimetre wavelengths can see into the dense molecular clouds in which stars are born. With this measurement, BLASTPol can help resolve long-standing questions about the role of magnetic fields in the beginning of star formation.BLASTPol is a 1.8 m telescope with 288 Herschel/SPIRE-heritage bolometric detectors at 250 μm, 350 μm, and 500 μm. Polarimetric capability was added with photolithographed grids and a stepped half-wave plate. This work outlines the instrument, with a focus on the BLASTbus electronics system for detector readout, telescope attitude control, and cryogenic housekeeping.In December 2010 and in December 2012, BLASTPol had two long duration balloon flights. An improved map making procedure has been used for reducing the 2012 dataset to maps of the polarized sky. The overall data analysis procedure is described, along with details of the map maker characterization. Finally, maps are presented for the seven targets observed during the 2012 flight. The 14 square degree map of the Vela~C giant molecular cloud is of particularly high quality and will be used in several upcoming studies of dust physics and star formation.Ph.D
Mapping Submillimetre Polarization with BLASTPol
No full textBLASTPol observes the linearly polarized emission from interstellar dust. Dust polarization traces magnetic fields, and submillimetre wavelengths can see into the dense molecular clouds in which stars are born. With this measurement, BLASTPol can help resolve long-standing questions about the role of magnetic fields in the beginning of star formation.BLASTPol is a 1.8 m telescope with 288 Herschel/SPIRE-heritage bolometric detectors at 250 μm, 350 μm, and 500 μm. Polarimetric capability was added with photolithographed grids and a stepped half-wave plate. This work outlines the instrument, with a focus on the BLASTbus electronics system for detector readout, telescope attitude control, and cryogenic housekeeping.In December 2010 and in December 2012, BLASTPol had two long duration balloon flights. An improved map making procedure has been used for reducing the 2012 dataset to maps of the polarized sky. The overall data analysis procedure is described, along with details of the map maker characterization. Finally, maps are presented for the seven targets observed during the 2012 flight. The 14 square degree map of the Vela~C giant molecular cloud is of particularly high quality and will be used in several upcoming studies of dust physics and star formation.Ph.D
Polarimetry from the Stratosphere with Spider and BLASTPol
No full textThis thesis presents the hardware development and flight performance of two balloon-borne experiments. The Spider experiment is a millimetre-wavelength polarimeter designed to measure B-mode polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background at degree scales. This pattern is the imprint of the primordial gravitational waves predicted to have been produced by inflation. The BLASTPol experiment is a submillimetre-wavelength polarimeter designed to measure the linearly-polarized emission from aligned dust grains in Galactic molecular clouds, inferring the directions of the magnetic fields there. One goal of this measurement is to understand the role of magnetic fields in the earliest stages of star formation.
Spider had a Long-Duration Balloon flight around Antarctica in January 2015. BLASTPol had two such flights, in December 2010 and 2012. Analysis of Spider data is underway. Results of BLASTPol 2012 data analysis are presented herein.
The design and performance of the Spider pointing control system is presented. A new pivot motor control mode was developed, in which the servo drive controlled motor velocity, not current. This mode enabled sinusoidal azimuth scans at a peak speed of 5 deg/s, with a peak acceleration of 0.5 (deg/s)/s, in flight. The pointing stability in flight was 1'' to 2'' RMS. A new elevation drive system was designed and built for Spider.
The Spider observing strategy is presented. It enabled observation of a 10% patch of sky, avoiding the sun and Galactic plane, with uniform coverage in declination, and good cross-linking.
A model of the BLASTPol 2012 PSF was developed, allowing centroiding, flat-fielding, and map deconvolution. The latter was attempted in Fourier space, and using the Lucy-Richardson method.
A net linear polarization of the dust emission in the Carina Nebula was measured by BLASTPol. The mean fractional polarization is 6.75% +/- 0.015%, 6.84% +/- 0.016% and 7.06% +/- 0.019%, at 250, 350, and 500 μm respectively. A falling polarization spectrum was found, in contrast with the V-shaped spectrum measured in other molecular clouds. The median ratios of the fractional polarization between bands have been measured to be 1.0155 +/- 0.00035 between 250 and 350 μm, and 0.9376 +/- 0.00056 between 500 and 350 μm.Ph.D
Polarimetry from the Stratosphere with Spider and BLASTPol
No full textThis thesis presents the hardware development and flight performance of two balloon-borne experiments. The Spider experiment is a millimetre-wavelength polarimeter designed to measure B-mode polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background at degree scales. This pattern is the imprint of the primordial gravitational waves predicted to have been produced by inflation. The BLASTPol experiment is a submillimetre-wavelength polarimeter designed to measure the linearly-polarized emission from aligned dust grains in Galactic molecular clouds, inferring the directions of the magnetic fields there. One goal of this measurement is to understand the role of magnetic fields in the earliest stages of star formation.
Spider had a Long-Duration Balloon flight around Antarctica in January 2015. BLASTPol had two such flights, in December 2010 and 2012. Analysis of Spider data is underway. Results of BLASTPol 2012 data analysis are presented herein.
The design and performance of the Spider pointing control system is presented. A new pivot motor control mode was developed, in which the servo drive controlled motor velocity, not current. This mode enabled sinusoidal azimuth scans at a peak speed of 5 deg/s, with a peak acceleration of 0.5 (deg/s)/s, in flight. The pointing stability in flight was 1'' to 2'' RMS. A new elevation drive system was designed and built for Spider.
The Spider observing strategy is presented. It enabled observation of a 10% patch of sky, avoiding the sun and Galactic plane, with uniform coverage in declination, and good cross-linking.
A model of the BLASTPol 2012 PSF was developed, allowing centroiding, flat-fielding, and map deconvolution. The latter was attempted in Fourier space, and using the Lucy-Richardson method.
A net linear polarization of the dust emission in the Carina Nebula was measured by BLASTPol. The mean fractional polarization is 6.75% +/- 0.015%, 6.84% +/- 0.016% and 7.06% +/- 0.019%, at 250, 350, and 500 μm respectively. A falling polarization spectrum was found, in contrast with the V-shaped spectrum measured in other molecular clouds. The median ratios of the fractional polarization between bands have been measured to be 1.0155 +/- 0.00035 between 250 and 350 μm, and 0.9376 +/- 0.00056 between 500 and 350 μm.Ph.D
Probing cosmic inflation with the Spider experiment
No full textSpider is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave polarimeter designed to operate for up to two weeks on
a Long Duration Balloon platform. From above 99.5% of the atmosphere, Spider flew over Antarctica
for 16 days observing the sky with over two thousand detectors housed inside a 1300 L liquid helium
cryostat, distributed amongst 6 telescopes that span two frequency channels: 95 GHz and 150 GHz. By
focusing its observing time over a 10% patch of the sky at high galactic latitude, Spider targets the
degree-scale BB spectrum in search of the pattern that would have been imprinted by gravitational
waves propagating in the early universe, a key prediction of inflation.
In order to probe the physics of the very early universe the experiment needs to operate in the harsh
environment of the upper atmosphere for multiple days. This work discusses at length the detailed
thermal modeling and analysis leading up to the 2015 flight which ensured the correct thermal operation
of every component while at 36 km of altitude. The flight is followed by a data analysis that will
ultimately produce a constraint on the amplitude of the primordial gravitational wave background from
bandpowers of the BB spectrum of the CMB. In order to measure the CMB itself, contamination to the
BB spectrum by polarized galactic foreground emission needs to be quantified. To improve its ability
to characterize polarized foregrounds, Spider will have a second flight in 2018-2019 which will add
a 285 GHz frequency channel. In this work, we explore a component separation technique involving
Planck HFI data. A power spectrum estimator used to produce bandpower estimates from maps is also
discussed.Ph.D.2019-12-19 00:00:0
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