Faith Seeking Understanding
The Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship was founded in 1976 to be a place where committed Christian thinkers from across the academic disciplines could reflect and write about pressing issues of public concern. The Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship exists to coordinate and provide leadership for the project of advancing and improving intentional Christian scholarship at Calvin University. Over the years its support has enabled scholars to produce over 100 books, several of which have gone into second editions, as well as numerous articles, lectures, conferences, and public presentations. The vision of its founders and the efforts of its participants have made the CCCS a recognized leader in the growing international project of intentional, self-critical Christian scholarship. “Intentional Christian scholarship” means research and reflection that deliberately bring the resources of the Christian faith to bear upon a subject, whether by scrutinizing the fundamental premises of a theory or a field; by elaborating the ethical consequences of social structures, research methods, or ways of thought; by creating imaginative or artistic works; or by helping Christians understand their world better through the critical appropriation of new work being done in the academy.
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Enhancing a Global Perspective on Campus
Larry Braskamp
Larry Braskamp spoke on "Enhancing a Global Perspective on Campus," drawing from his extensive work surveying American college and university students with the Global Perspectives Inventory.
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Christian Scholarship...for What?
Susan Felch
On September 27-29, 2001 Calvin College concluded its 125th anniversary celebrations with an international, interdisciplinary conference centered on the topic, "Christian Scholarship ... for What?" The title, a variation on Robert Lynds provocative address to the American social science establishment in 1938, acknowledged that faith-based scholarship has come of age. It is no longer a question of whether we will produce, publish, and read Christian scholarship. Rather, we must turn our attention to improving such scholarship and thinking deeply about the purposes to which it is directed. The conference, with its seven plenary and forty-seven concurrent sessions, attracted nearly 500 participants from around the world. Faculty; graduate students, church leaders, and interested laypersons from many different academic disciplines and Christian traditions gathered to think together about the project of Christian scholarship. This book includes the six major addresses, which were given at the conference.
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CCCS Education Center
Agnus Struik; E. Brower; H. Potoka; Rick Geertsma; Hilda Roukema,; and Coni Huisman
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Case Report: Scarcity and Sanctity
Douglas Diekema and Allen Verhey
The second lecture starts at 54:00
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Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship Dedication
John VandenBerg, Anthony Diekema, and Andrew Bandstra