Intentionally Christian Scholarship
CCCS Working Group Awards for 2009-2010
The Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship is pleased to announce that four Working Groups have been funded for next academic year, 2009-2010. If you are interested in participating in a group, please contact the (co-) leader listed for further information.
Climate Change: Complexity, Uncertainty and the Precautionary Principle
Del Ratzsch (Philosophy), dratzsch@calvin.edu
Developing a Deeper Understanding of the Impact of the Economic Recession on Reformed Faith and Practice
Michael Van Denend (Alumni), alumni@calvin.edu
and John Tiemstra (Economics), tmst@calvin.edu
Late Medieval Mysticism as the Inner Reformation of the Body and Soul
Henry Luttikhuizen (Art and Art History), lutt@calvin.edu
Faith Formation and Expression
Cheryl Brandsen (Dean for Social Sciences and Contextual Disciplines), brac@calvin.edu
and Laura DeHaan (Psychology), ldehaan@calvin.edu
The CCCS Board is grateful for the continuing and creative interest of Calvin faculty in the cause of Christian scholarship and looks forward to the cross-disciplinary conversations these groups will stimulate on campus and off.
New Publications
Glittering Vices:
A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies
Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
Brazos Press, May 2009
Bearing the Marks of Jesus
By Eduardo B. Pedraza
Translated by Daniel R. Miller
CCCS, June 2009
News & Stories: 2008-09
Faith & Adolescence
June 19. 2009
"We know relatively little about the religious lives of American adolescents,” is a claim made by researchers in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion in 2002.
It’s a statement that Calvin psychology professors Laura DeHaan and Julie Yonker agree with but would like to change.