This is a collection of 18 Biblical meditations interpreting both Old and New Testaments. They are a compilation of what was spoken to mostly local congregations in the Toronto, Ontario area of Canada, between 1977 and 2011, by a lay preacher, Calvin Seerveld. Certain old traditional hymns (no longer under copyright) and a few newly composed Psalms texts by Seerveld, with melodies, are included, which are relevant to the exposition. Occasional photographic illustrations document what is spoken.Congregations of Christian believers constituted the majority of audiences for these public presentations. Exposition represents a hermeneutics in the tradition of Martin Luther and Jean Calvin, often with a contemporary twist that relates the biblical passages to current societal problems, political troubles, and ordinary daily life. A few meditations end with a prayer.
Las noticias globales de hoy continúan incitando a los seguidores de Jesús a estudiar sus Biblias para comprender los conflictos que arrasan entre la iglesia y sus críticos, entre Israel y sus vecinos, de hecho, entre Israel y el resto del mundo.¿Qué tan bien conoce la historia de las relaciones entre Israel y Palestina? ¿Existe una solución a esta lucha aparentemente interminable por la tierra, por la paz y por la supervivencia?El Dr. Willem J. Ouweneel es un experto en la historia de este conflicto. Más que eso, con una lente centrada en la Biblia, examina los malentendidos y engaños generalizados que se utilizan con fines propagandísticos y para hacer que la gente elija un bando.Con veinte tesis o proposiciones, el Dr. Ouweneel despeja la niebla de información errónea para que podamos ver (¡y orar!) con claridad mientras esperamos el regreso del Mesías. ¡Lea esto, infórmese y ore fervientemente!
Today's global news continues to prompt Jesus-followers to study their Bibles for insights into the conflicts raging between the church and its critics, between Israel and her neighbors, indeed, between Israel and the rest of the world.How well do you know the history of Israel-Palestine relations? Is there a solution to this seemingly unending struggle for land, for peace, for survival?Dr. Willem J. Ouweneel is an expert in the history of this conflict. More than that, with a Bible-focused lens he surveys the widespread misunderstandings and deceptions being used for propaganda and for making people choose sides.With twenty theses or propositions, Dr. Ouweneel clears away the fog of misinformation so we can see-and pray!-clearly while we wait for Messiah's return. Read this, be informed, and pray fervently!
One may characterize this book as non-ecclesiastical kingdom work. In the footsteps of Abraham Kuyper, the well-known Dutch theologian and politician, Herman Dooyeweerd, a legal scholar, realized that the Reformation of the 16th century touched the heart as the religious root of human existence and therefore could not remain restricted to the narrower church life for its penetrating and renewing effect must affect all areas of life. This reformational legacy inspired the ensuing Christian life and world view which turned out to be a direction giving life orientation. It inspired the transformation of all walks of life including the entire academic enterprise. The encompassing scope and depth present in the philosophical work of Herman Dooyeweerd opens up avenues which shed new light on the foundations of the various special sciences as well as diverse everyday practices. Exploring the insights contained in this Book will turn out to be an enriching experience while introducing distinctions and analyses not familiar to everybody. From the Introduction:". . . the most original philosopher Holland has produced even Spinoza not excepted" (Langemeijer).". . . the most profound, innovative, and penetrating philosopher since Kant" (Giorgio Delvecchio)."Herman Dooyeweerd is undoubtedly the most formidable Dutch philosopher of the 20th century.... As a humanist I have always looked at 'my own tradition' in search of similar examples. They simply don't exist" (Cliteur)
One of the questions in discussion among us, and one which cries out for an answer is the following: Is the government only subject to God Almighty, the Triune God, the Creator of heaven and earth, or should it also know itself to be subject to Christ, as the King who has been crowned by God?
Dooyeweerd shows how tragic it is that humanism managed to acquire its historical power to shape scientific development partly thanks to a centuries-long attempt at accommodation and synthesis on the part of Christian thought itself. The all-pervasive import of a radical biblical starting-point in science and scholarship finds an ample expression in the final statement of this last essay of this volume:"All Christians who in their scientific work are ashamed of the Name of Christ Jesus, because they desire honor among people, will be totally useless in the mighty struggle to recapture science, one of the great powers of Western culture, for the Kingdom of God. This struggle is not hopeless, however, so long as it is waged in the full armour of faith in Him who has said, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me,' and again, 'Take heart! I have overcome the world.'"
This book contains the lectures which Dr. H. Evan Runner presented to two student conferences in 1959 and 1960. Runner was professor of philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 1951 until 1981, when he became professor of philosophy emeritus. The conferences were sponsored by the Association for Reformed Scientific Studies, now called the Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship, which today owns and operates the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. They were presented at a conference center in Unionville, a lovely little village just to the north of Toronto. The audience consisted primarily of students, teachers and preachers of Reformed background who had emigrated from Holland to Canada after the second world war.
The Christian Ethos is a collection of related articles from several different sources. Some of the chapters have been translated from Troost's earlier book, Geen aardse macht begeren wij (We Desire No Earthly Power). Other chapters are revisions of his lectures delivered at the Central Interfaculty of the Free University of Amsterdam and those delivered at the Reformed Theological College in Geelong, Australia. A lecture delivered at the University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa in 1975 is also included. As a whole, The Christian Ethos is essentially a popular and preliminary approach to a systematic study of philosophical ethics.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord,that we who are alive,who remain behind until the coming of the Lord,will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep,because the Lord himself will descend from heavenwith a cry of command,with the voice of an archangel,and with the trumpet of God,and the dead in Christ will rise first.Then we who are alive, who remain behind,will be caught up in the clouds together with themto meet the Lord in the air.And so we will be forever with the Lord.- 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 Und nach dem Tod da werd ich seinBei Christo meinem Herren.And after death, I will bewith Christ, my Lord.- Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt[The Lord Is My Faithful Shepherd]Bach cantata BWV 112
WHAT THEN IS THEOLOGY? Throughout the life-time of the Body of Christ, Christians have typically identified theology, a theoretical enterprise, with the everyday non-theoretical language of the Bible. Enthralled with the idea that as the Logos of the Greek philosophers provided an "intelligent... principle of the universe," so too, the first verse of the Gospel of John similarly provides Christians with a rational entrée to the mind of God and his creation. With such a view the Bible easily becomes a textbook regarding the real nature of everything. Hence it is assumed in many orthodox circles that it is the task of theology to provide the systematic organization of the "logical" propositions of the Bible.Ouweneel asks, Is theology really the same as "Bible study", or the "study of Christian doctrine"? Is theology "science"? And if so, what does this involve? How can you distinguish between scientific and non-scientific - or even unscientific - theology? If the Apostles Peter, John, and Paul were indeed "theologians", were they scientific, non-scientific, or unscientific theologians? Does it matter whether theology is "scientific" or not?All these questions and many more evoked by these questions are investigated in this challenging and ground-breaking work by the Dutch theologian Willem J. Ouweneel.
Are the sciences or disciplines independent from one another? Do they have absolutely nothing to do with each other? Might there be some interrelationship? And how is it that we are asking these questions now and not before? Why has philosophy neglected this vital understanding of the world and human interaction? In this re-printed publication, the Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977) explains the analogical concepts and seeks to call attention to what has been so long neglected.
"De Graaf's renewed insight into Biblical revelation is the unique perspective undergirding his treatment of all the Bible stories. It makes his book a unique presentation of God's revelation of Himself in the covenant and keeps his interpretation of the stories from degenerating into mere moralizing.De Graaf's theocentric preaching, which witnessed to God's sovereignty over the entire life of His people, gripped the hearts of his hearers in his day. The same emphasis, as it comes through in Promise and Deliverance, should be a matter of paramount interest and concern today to evangelicals who are manifesting a growing social awareness and seeking more and more points of contact between Christian beliefs and daily life."-Prof. H. Evan Runner, Calvin College
"De Graaf's renewed insight into Biblical revelation is the unique perspective undergirding his treatment of all the Bible stories. It makes his book a unique presentation of God's revelation of Himself in the covenant and keeps his interpretation of the stories from degenerating into mere moralizing.De Graaf's theocentric preaching, which witnessed to God's sovereignty over the entire life of His people, gripped the hearts of his hearers in his day. The same emphasis, as it comes through in Promise and Deliverance, should be a matter of paramount interest and concern today to evangelicals who are manifesting a growing social awareness and seeking more and more points of contact between Christian beliefs and daily life."-Prof. H. Evan Runner, Calvin College
The Encyclopedia of the Science of Law constitutes the first scholarly domain in which Dooyeweerd tested his radically new understanding of created reality, informed by the biblical basic motive of creation, fall, and redemption. The Science of Law represents the academic discipline in which Dooyeweerd was trained and in which he developed exceptional expertise. Therefore, it must be clear that the publication of this comprehensive and authoritative multi-volume series will contribute significantly to the ever growing legacy of reformational philosophy.From the editor''s Preface.
The attempt to reduce what is truly unique to something else leads to the deification of something or some aspect within creation, normally accompanied by imperialistic "all"-claims such as, "everything is number," "everything is matter," "everything is feeling," "everything is historical" or "everything is interpretation." The distortions thus created inevitably result in insoluble anti-nomies.A Christian approach to scholarship, directed by the central biblical motive of creation, fall and redemption and guided by the theoretical idea that God subjected all of creation to His Law-Word, delimiting and determining the cohering diversity we experience within reality, in principle safe-guards those in the grip of this ultimate commitment and theoretical orientation from absolutizing anything within creation.
The Encyclopedia of the Science of Law constitutes the first scholarly domain in which Dooyeweerd tested his radically new understanding of created reality, informed by the biblical basic motive of creation, fall, and redemption. The Science of Law represents the academic discipline in which Dooyeweerd was trained and in which he developed exceptional expertise. Therefore, it must be clear that the publication of this comprehensive and authoritative multi-volume series will contribute significantly to the ever growing legacy of reformational philosophy.From the editor''s Preface.
¿QUÉ ES UNA COSA? ¿CUÁL ES LA NATURALEZA DE LA REALIDAD? Hay solamente 26 letras en el alfabeto inglés. Pero con esas 26 letras se pueden formar más de un millón de palabras en el lenguaje inglés. Solamente hay 88 notas en un teclado común. Ponga esas notas a disposición de músicos entrenados y sus instrumentos, y Bono y Beethoven enviarán al alma a volar. Los números del 0 al 9 son números enteros. Es todo lo que son ---diez dígitos. No obstante, este puñado de dígitos permite que la numeración se vaya al infinito. Los estudiantes de ciencias están íntimamente familiarizados con la Tabla de los Elementos. Dos partes de hidrógeno y una de oxígeno forman agua. Sin ella cesaría la vida. Son indispensables los fundamentos para adquirir conocimiento. Son las vigas de acero con base en las cuales se construye el entero paradigma del conocimiento. Es así que todo mundo conoce sus ABCs, sus Do-Re-Mis y sus 1-2-3. Pero ¿sabía usted que casi nadie puede resumir, en orden, los dieciséis modos en los que existen todas las cosas (entes) sobre la tierra? "¿QUÉ CONSTITUYE LA UNIDAD Y LA DIVERSIDAD DE LA REALIDAD?" Tiene usted en sus manos una clara explicación de los dieciséis modos en los que todas las cosas funcionan. Willem (Guillermo) Ouweneel, quien posee doctorados en biología, filosofía y teología, conduce brillantemente al lector, a través de las que son llamadas las "dieciséis modalidades". Willem escribió este libro sobre el supuesto de que la mayoría de los lectores carecen de familiaridad con lo que constituye la divinamente estructurada unidad y diversidad de la realidad. ¡Después de leer este libro tendrá usted un mejor entendimiento y apreciación de la creación y el ingenio de su creador! En el proceso encontrará también la respuesta al acertijo que ha eludido a los filósofos desde Platón y Aristóteles.
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