Calvin George Seerveld (born 1930) received a BA from Calvin College in 1952 and an MA in English literature and classics from the University of Michigan in 1953. He then went on to study under D. H. Th. Vollenhoven at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam,where his doctoral dissertation dealt with Croce's aesthetics. It was supervised by Vollenhoven and Carlo Antoni. He then taught philosophy and German at Trinity Christian College and went on to teach philosophical aesthetics at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto.
Seerveld has been influential in the reformational movement. In fact he was the first to coin the term reformational to describe the philosophical aspects of neo-Calvinism. He has taken Herman Dooyeweerd's aesthetic modal aspect and developed Dooyeweerd's ideas.[ clarification needed ] His book Rainbows for a Fallen World has influenced many Christian artists.[ according to whom? ] In it he argues that "aesthetic obedience is required of everyone by the Lord-artist or not." [1]
Lambert Zuidervaart identifies four claims that constitute Seerveld's contribution to aesthetics: [2]
John Calvin was a French theologian,pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism,including its doctrines of predestination and of God's absolute sovereignty in the salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. Calvinist doctrines were influenced by and elaborated upon the Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Congregational,Reformed and Presbyterian churches,which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs,have spread throughout the world.
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Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff is an American philosopher and theologian. He is currently Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theological interests,he has written books on aesthetics,epistemology,political philosophy,philosophy of religion,metaphysics,and philosophy of education. In Faith and Rationality, Wolterstorff,Alvin Plantinga,and William Alston developed and expanded upon a view of religious epistemology that has come to be known as Reformed epistemology. He also helped to establish the journal Faith and Philosophy and the Society of Christian Philosophers.
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Howard Evan Runner was professor of philosophy at Calvin College from 1951 until his retirement in 1981.
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Bernard Zylstra was the principal and the professor of political theory at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. His influence on the development of Christian scholarship extended to the US,UK,South Africa,and Australia.
Dr. Anthony "Tony" Tol served in the Documentation Center of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,the Netherlands,as an archivist for the collection of materials assembled there for 19th Century historical developments in that country. Tol did his undergraduate studies at Calvin College,Grand Rapids,Michigan,and then received his PhD in philosophy under D. H. Th. Vollenhoven,professor of philosophy at Vrije Universiteit. Tony Tol became an active proponent of a method for study of the history of Western philosophy and its systematics,the method which Vollenhoven had empirically built-up by studying 16,000 individual philosophers over the course of theoretical thought in the West. Called by Vollenhoven the Consequent Problem-Historical Method (CPHM),the approach proved fascinating to Tol,who became one of its prime users in his own philosophical research and a theorizer of the development of the philosophical movement which had given it birth. The movement gave rise to the school of thought known as Reformational philosophy,founded by Vollenhoven and his colleague at Vrije Universiteit,professor of law Herman Dooyeweerd.
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John Witte Jr. is a Canadian-American academic. He is a Robert W. Woodruff University Professor and a McDonald Distinguished Professor at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta,Georgia,and is director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion there.
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