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Adam and Eve: An Evangelical Impasse?—A Review Essay

Hans Madueme is Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Covenant College. North American evangelical academic institutions are at a fork in the road. Developments in the natural sciences have raised, and continue to raise, difficult questions about the viability of traditional formulations of Christian doctrine. Mainline scholars have long made their peace with the modern…
January 15, 2016
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Disability, Providence, and Ethics: Bridging Gaps, Transforming Lives

Reviewed by Debra Paxton-Buursma, Education, Calvin College Everyone loves stories of transformation, especially when recounting crisis-creating contingencies that line the fabric of life. Despite human capacity and faith-filled living, change and loss lodge in our lives threatening the stability of our core beliefs, logic, and practices. When crisis hits, we often find the doctrine of…
October 15, 2015
Introduction

Introduction to the Issue

Peter J. Snyder is Associate Professor of Business at Calvin College. Much has been written in the past few years about the formative implications of higher education. Students are not cognitive receptacles in which to pour content, but are shaped by both the content and the practices of curricular and co-curricular activities. In his influential…
October 15, 2015
Reflection

Reimagining Business Education as Character Formation

Despite historical and recent scholarship that demonstrates the need to appeal to the affective dimension of students to enable appropriate behavior, Christian business education is dominated by cognitively focused “worldview integration.” In this essay Kenman Wong, Bruce Baker, and Randal Franz argue for reimagining business education as a formational enterprise in order to facilitate a…
October 15, 2015
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The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years

Reviewed by Cody R. Hawley, Communication, University of South Florida When George Gallup dubbed 1976 the year of the evangelical, he foreshadowed and promoted an increased evangelical involvement in politics. Jimmy Carter, with casual talk of his born-again faith, established its relevance in the public mind and reporters were often scrambling to understand this apparent…
October 15, 2015
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In Search of Sacred Time: Jacobus de Voragine and The Golden Legend

Reviewed by Karen D. Youmans, University Honors Program, Oklahoma City University The Golden Legend (Legenda Aurea) of Jacobus de Voragine, while not always revered for its artistry, stands unquestioned as one of the single most influential literary works of the late medieval period. Completed sometime between 1260 and 1298, the year of the Dominican friar’s…
October 15, 2015
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Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice

Reviewed by Daniel R. Miller, History, Calvin College This is a book about voices crying in the wilderness. It describes “progressive evangelicals,” more specifically a small but vocal group of writers and academics and popularizers such as Jim Wallis, James Skillen, Tony Campolo, John Anderson, and others who promoted their ideas in publications such as…
October 15, 2015