New Book Collects Calvin Worldview Lectures

For the past ten years Christian Reformed Home Missions has partnered with Calvin College to send Calvin professors on speaking tours of secular university campuses. Now, many of those lectures are being published in a new anthology.

Faithful Imagination in the Academy: Explorations in Religious Belief and Scholarship (Lexington Books, 2008) is a collection of lectures presented at North American and European universities by speakers during the Calvin Worldview Lectureship series. The annual series seeks to communicate a Reformed Christian perspective on academics and culture.

“These lectures were tested on the turf of our campus ministries, as these Calvin professors visited and shared their academic wares with our secular colleagues,” says Peter Schuurman, Educational Mission Specialist for Home Missions.

Contributors to the book, which is available for purchase from the Calvin bookstore (www.calvin.edu) as well as online retailers such as Amazon.com, include current and former Calvin professors Janel M. Curry, Mark Fackler, Susan M. Felch, John Hare, Del Ratzsch, Kurt C. Schaefer, Helen M. Sterk, David A. Van Baak, and Ronald A. Wells.

Lectures published in the book include “Can We Be Good Without God?” by John Hare; “Can Scientific Laws Teach Us the Nature of the World?” by David A. Van Baak; and “Design In Nature: What is Science Properly Permitted to Think?” by Del Ratzsch.