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The divine comedy

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, author

Translation of: Divina commedia Includes bibliographical references and indexes Contents: v.1. Inferno -- v.2. Purgatory -- v.3. Paradise

Date Published:1984

A history of Greek philosophy

Guthrie, W. K. C. (William Keith Chambers), 1906-1981, author

Includes bibliographical references and indexes Contents: v. 1. The earlier Presocratics and Pythagoreans -- v. 2. The Presocratic tradition from Parmenides to Democritus -- v. 3. The fifth-century enlightenment -- v. 4. Plato, the man and his dialogues -- v. 5. The later Plato and the Academy -- v. 6. Aristotle, an encounter

Date Published:1981

Complete works

Plato, author

Includes index

Date Published:1997

In the Phrygian mode : neo-Calvinism, antiquity and the lamentations of Reformational philosophy

Papers from the conference "Antiquity and the Reformed tradition" held in the summer of 1995 at Knox College, University of Toronto, under the auspices of the Institute for Christian Studies and the Dooyeweerd Centre for Christian Philosophy Reviewed by J. Glenn Friesen in Philosophia reformata, 72 (2), 2007: 184-188. Prologue: Reformational philosophy and Protestant orthodoxy / Robert Sweetman -- Neo-Calvinism, antiquity and the lamentations of Reformational philosophy: a general overview / Robert Sweetman -- Groen van Prinsterer's appreciation of classical antiquity / Harry Van Dyke -- Woltjer on classical antiquity / John H. Kok -- Alexander Sizoo / Johan Zwaan -- Greek ontology and Biblical cosmology: an unbridgeable gap / A.P. Bos and D.F.M. Strauss -- Vollenhoven and philosophy in early classical antiquity: a critical review / Anthony Tol -- Popma and Lucian: a critique of the Christian Fathers / Wendy E. Helleman -- Philo in the Reformational tradition / David T. Runia -- Vollenhoven's and Dooyeweerd's appropriation of Greek philosophy / William Rowe -- Antiquity transumed and the Reformational tradition: which antiquity is transumed, how and why / Calvin G. Seerveld -- Epilogue: Antiquity and the future of Reformational tears / Robert Sweetman. Citation: Sweetman, Robert (ed.). In the Phrygian mode: neo-Calvinism, antiquity and the lamentations of Reformational philosophy. Lanham, Md.: Institute for Christian Studies and University Press of America, 2007. (ICS Library: B4041 .I57 2007).

Date Published:2007

Introduction to philosophy

Vollenhoven, D. H. Theodoor (Dirk Hendrik Theodoor), 1892-1978, author

Gift--J.H. Kok (c.1) Hendrik Hart Collection (c.2) Translation of: Isagoge Philosophiae. Amsterdam: Filosofisch Instituut, Vrije Universiteit, 1967 Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-145) and indexes Contents: Preface / Calvin Seerveld -- Foreword / Anthony Tol -- Isagoge Philosophiae = Introduction to philosophy -- Introduction: The place of philosophy in the cosmos and its task -- Part I. The diversity and connection of the determinants of the heavenly subject -- Part II. The diversity and connection of the determinants of the earthly subject -- Part III. The connection between heaven and earth -- Appendix: A number of the more complicated questions of philosophy -- Part I. Human knowing -- Part II. The theory about know-how and technology -- Part III. The theory about art and aesthetics Citation: Vollenhoven, D. H. Theodoor. Introduction to philosophy, edited by John H. Kok and Anthony Tol. Sioux Center, Ia.: Dordt College Press, 2005. (ICS Library: BD 28 .V65a 2005 c.2)

Date Published:2005

Satan and the problem of evil : constructing a trinitarian warfare theodicy

Boyd, Gregory A., 1957-, author

Gift--J. Neufeld Includes bibliographical references (pages [431]-448) and indexes Contents: The world at war: the warfare worldview of the Bible and the early church -- The free fall: free will & the origin of evil -- A risky creation: divine foreknowledge & the Trinitarian warfare worldview -- A question of balance: issues surrounding the foreknowledge of God & the openness of the future -- Love and war: risk & the sovereignty of God -- No turning back: the irrevocability & the finitude of freedom -- Praying in the whirlwind: miracles, prayer & the arbitrariness of life -- "Red in tooth and claw": perspectives on the origin of natural evil, part 1 -- When nature becomes a weapon: perspectives on the origin of natural evil, part 2 -- This an enemy has done: "natural" evil & the Trinitarian warfare theodicy -- A clash of doctrines: eternal suffering & annihilationism -- A separate reality: hell, das Nichtige & the victory of God

Date Published:2001

Illuminating law : the construction of Herman Dooyeweerd's philosophy, 1918-1928

Henderson, Roger Douglas,

Hendrik Hart Collection (copies 2-3) Background -- Discovery -- Unpublished manuscripts -- Epistemology -- Law -- Coherence -- Conclusion. Citation: Henderson, Roger Douglas. Illuminating law: the construction of Herman Dooyeweerd's philosophy, 1918-1928. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam, 1994. (ICS Library: B 4051 .D64 H45 c.4-5).

Date Published:1994

Black skin, white masks

Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961, author

Originally published in the French language under the title: Peau noire, masques blancs by Editions du Seuil, Paris Includes bibliographical references Contents: The black man and language -- The woman of color and the white man -- The man of color and the white woman -- The so-called dependency complex of the colonized -- The lived experience of the black man -- The black man and psychopathology -- The black man and recognition -- By way of conclusion

Date Published:2008

The illegitimacy of Jesus : a feminist theological interpretation of the infancy narratives

Schaberg, Jane, author

Originally published: San Francisco and London : Harper & Row, c1987 Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-228) and indexes

Date Published:2006

Moral essays

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., author

Texts in English and Latin on opposite pages Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages xv-xvi) and indexes

Date Published:2006

Theology without metaphysics : God, language, and the spirit of recognition

Hector, Kevin W., author

Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: Therapy for metaphysics -- Concepts, rules, and the spirit of recognition -- Meaning and meanings -- Reference and presence -- Truth and correspondence -- Emancipating theology Reviewed by Jeff Snapper in Faith and Philosophy, 30 (2), 2013: 231-238 Reviewed John R. Betz, "Theology without Metaphysics? A Reply to Kevin Hector," In Modern Theology 31 (3), 2015. DOI: 10.1111/moth.12171 (Accessd May 19, 2015) Citation: Hector, Kevin W. Theology without metaphysics: God, language, and the spirit of recognition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. (ICS Library: BT 103 .H43 2011)

Date Published:2011

An ethos of compassion and the integrity of creation

Institute for Christian Studies

Hendrik Hart Collection (Archives copy) Plenary addresses given at a conference held in June 1992 in Toronto, Ont., to mark the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Institute for Christian Studies Introduction / Harry Fernhout -- Parables of compassion and judgment / J. Richard Middleton -- An ethos of compassion and the integrity of creation : setting the table / Brian J. Walsh -- Creation order: a historical look at our heritage / Albert M. Wolters -- Creation order and transcendental philosophy / Sander Griffioen -- The doctrine of creation : judging law and transforming vision / Carroll Guen Hart -- Points of unease with the creation order tradition / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Creation order in our philosophical tradition : critique and refinement / Hendrik Hart -- Thinking of creation order and an ethos of compassion / Atie Th. Bruggemann-Kruiff -- Too far the pendulum swings / John E. Hare -- Portrayal of reformational philosophy seem unfair / Johan van der Hoeven -- Reply to my respondents / Hendrik Hart -- Biblical hermeneutics and a medical ethos of compassion / Allen D. Verhey -- Aspects of scripture and medical ethics / John Cooper -- In defence of hermeneutics and compassion / Sylvia C. Keesmaat -- When is 'against nature' against nature? / Calvin B. DeWitt -- When is sex against nature? / James Olthuis -- Is male dominance against nature? / Elaine Storkey -- Order and the transcendence of order: a meditation on order, sin and grace / Langdon Gilkey -- A summing up / Jonathan and Adrienne Chaplin. Citation: Walsh, J. Brian, Hendrik Hart and Robert E. VanderVennen (eds.). An ethos of compassion and the integrity of creation. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1995. (ICS Library: BT78 .E74 ARCH).

Date Published:1995

The legacy of Herman Dooyeweerd : reflections on critical philosophy in the Christian tradition

Hendrik Hart Collection (c.3) Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: The intellectual milieu of Herman Dooyeweerd / Albert M. Wolters -- Dooyeweerd on religion and faith / James H. Olthuis -- Dooyeweerd's legacy for aesthetics / Calvin G. Seerveld -- Dooyeweerd's philosophy of history / C.T. McIntire -- Dooyeweerd's empirical theory of rights / Paul Marshall -- Dooyeweerd's Gegenstand theory of theory / Hendrik Hart Citation: McIntire, C.T. (ed.). The legacy of Herman Dooyeweerd: reflections on critical philosophy in the Christian tradition. Lanham, MD; University Press of America ; Institute for Christian Studies, 1985. (ICS Library: B 4051 .D64 L43 c.3)

Date Published:1985

The arts, community, and cultural democracy

Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: Art is no fringe: an introduction / Lambert Zuidervaart -- Part I: Politics of culture -- Postmodern arts and the birth of a democratic culture / Lambert Zuidervaart -- The global and the local: community-based culture and economic justice / Bob Goudzwaard and Andre Droogers -- Music, marginalization, and racial identities / Sharon R.Vriend -- Part II: Institutions of art -- The necessity of Christian public artistry / Calvin G. Seerveld -- Fighting the musical museum: Aaron Copland's 'Music and imagination' / Jennifer DeLapp -- Sampling and society: intellectual infringement and digital folk music in John Oswald's 'Plunderphonics' / Jim Leach -- Part III: Questions of interpretation -- Otherwise than violence: toward a hermeneutics of connection / James H. Olthuis -- Why interpretation? / Theo de Boer -- A matter of trust? Law and democracy as literary performance / Kevin R. den Dulk -- Part IV: Creations of history -- Whatever happened to primitivism? A case study in the cultural politics of art history and intellectual history / Graham Birtwistle -- Hogenberg and history: popular imagery of the Golden age and the making of Dutch history / Lisa De Boer -- Putting a face on justice: group portraiture in early Netherlandish painting / Henry M. Luttikhuizen Citation: Zuidervaart, Lambert and Henry Luttikhuizen (eds.). The arts, community, and cultural democracy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. (ICS Library: NX180 .S6 A773 1999)

Date Published:1999

On translation

Ricoeur, Paul, author

Includes bibliographical references (pages 40-41) and index Contents: Introduction: Ricoeur's philosophy of translation / Richard Kearney -- Translation as challenge and source of happiness -- The paradigm of translation -- A 'passage': translating the untranslatable

Date Published:2006

Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas

Derrida, Jacques, author

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-152) Contents: Adieu -- A word of welcome

Date Published:1999

The will to believe : human immortality and other essays in popular philosophy

James, William, 1842-1910, author

Date Published:1960

On rhetoric : a theory of civic discourse

Aristotle, author

Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-327) and index

Date Published:1991

The land : place as gift, promise, and challenge in Biblical faith

Brueggemann, Walter, author

Gift--J. Neufeld Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212) and indexes Contents: Land as promise and as problem -- "To the land I will show you" -- "You lacked nothing" -- Reflections at the boundary -- "One from among your brethren" -- "Because you forgot me" -- The push toward landlessness -- and byond -- "None to comfort" -- Jealous for Jerusalem -- "Blessed are the meek" -- Land : fertility and justice -- Concluding hermeneutical reflections Citation: Brueggemann, Walter. The land: place as gift, promise, and challenge in Biblical faith. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002. (ICS Library: BS 543 .B78 2002)

Date Published:2002

Radical hermeneutics : repetition, deconstruction, and the hermeneutic project

Caputo, John D., author

Hendrik Hart Collection (c.2) Copy 2 includes marginalia Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-314) and index Contents: Introduction: Restoring life to its original difficulty -- Part One: Repetition and the genesis of hermeneutics -- Repetition and kinesis: Kierkegaard on the foundering of metaphysics -- Repetition and constitution: Husserl's proto-hermeneutics -- Retrieval and the circular being of Dasein: hermeneutics in 'Being and time' -- Part Two: Deconstruction and the radicalization of hermeneutics -- Hermeneutics after 'Being and time' -- Repetition and the emancipation of signs: Derrida on Husserl -- Hermes and the dispatches from being: Derrida on Heidegger -- Cold hermeneutics: Heidegger / Derrida -- Part Three: The Hermeneutic Project -- Toward a postmetaphysical rationality -- Toward an ethics of dissemination -- Openness to the mystery Essay review by James H. Olthuis, 'A cold and comfortless hermeneutic or a warm and trembling hermeneutic: a conversation with John D. Caputo' in Christian scholar's review, 19 (4), 1990, p. 345-362 Citation: Caputo, John D. Radical hermeneutics: repetition, deconstruction, and the hermeneutic project. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. (ICS Library: BD 241 .C34 1987 c.2--includes marginalia)

Date Published:1987