Month: May 2018
Recent Faculty Publications + New Faces
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, A PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY BY: DANJUMA G. GIBSON In the extreme context of the American slavocracy, how do we account for the robust subjectivity and agency of Frederick Douglass? In…
Distinguished Alumni: Christian Y. OH
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI: CHRISTIAN Y. OH Christian Y. Oh, born and raised in a devout Christian family in South Korea at the end of the Korean War, grew up attending church…
Distinguished Missionaries
ANN AT CTS: CHAPTER 3 ANN PLANTINGA KAPTEYN Lee S. Huizenga Missionary-in-Residence If I organize my decades of interactions with Calvin Seminary into chapters, I have just completed “Ann at…
Retirement Profile: Michael Williams
IT WAS DOWN IN THE DARKEST NETHER REGIONS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, CLOISTERED FOR A 70-DAY NAVY SUBMARINE PATROL IN THE CLAUSTROPHOBIC CONFINES OF A TITANIUM TUBE, WHEN MICHAEL…
What’s New @ Calvin Seminary
Master Level Courses in Spanish Beginning this fall, Calvin Seminary will begin offering online courses that are taught entirely in Spanish. These courses will provide training for current and future…
PhD Program Celebrates Silver Anniversary
The fall of 2017 marked the 25th anniversary of Calvin Seminary’s PhD program. Seminary faculty had floated the idea of such a program as far back as the 1940s, but…
Practicing Church Discipline: Wisdom From The Field
Practically speaking, what does it look like for a person to be faithfully discipled, especially when Belgic Confession Article 29 teaches that the third mark of a true church is…
Dare to Discipline
It must be admitted that the Church does not have a very good track record of dealing with its wayward members in the humble, gracious, and Christ-like manner that allows…
The Grace of Discipline
In his classic work, The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer warned Christians in 1930s Nazi Germany against the subtle deceitfulness of what he called cheap grace. “Cheap grace is the…