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Title

An ethos of compassion and the integrity of Creation / Brian J. Walsh, Hendrik Hart, and Robert E. VanderVennen, editors.

Publication

Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Walsh, Brian J., 1953-
• Hart, Hendrik.
• VanderVennen, Robert E.
• Institute for Christian Studies.

Description

230 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Order > Religious aspects > Christianity > Congresses
• Creation > Religious aspects > Christianity > Congresses
• Theology, Doctrinal > History > 20th century
• Christian sociology > Reformed Church > Congresses
• Reformed Church > Doctrines

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 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 Seems 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 -- To 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 Chaplin and Adrienne Chaplin.

ISBN

• 0761801022 (alk. paper)
• 0761801030 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95033406

OCLC

ocm33041747

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries