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Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal Essays in Reformational Philosophy Lambert Zuidervaart McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Chicago © McGill-Queen’s University Press 2017 ISBN 978-0-7735-5041-4 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-7735-5042-1 (paper) ISBN 978-0-7735-5043-8 (ePDF) ISBN 978-0-7735-5044-5 (ePUB) Legal deposit second quarter 2017 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-consumer recycled), processed chlorine free The publication of this book is supported by generous grants from the Andreas Center at Dordt College and from the Priscilla and Stanford Reid Trust. McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Zuidervaart, Lambert, author Art, education, and cultural renewal: essays in reformational philosophy / Lambert Zuidervaart. Companion volume to: Religion, truth, and social transformation. Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN 978-0-7735-5041-4 (cloth). – ISBN 978-0-7735-5042-1 (paper). – ISBN 978-0-7735-5043-8 (ePDF). – ISBN 978-0-7735-5044-5 (ePUB) 1. Christianity – Philosophy. 2. Reformation. 3. Art – Philosophy. 4. Education, Higher – Philosophy. 5. Popular culture – Philosophy. I. Title. BR100.Z82 2016 190 C2016-907537-0 C2016-907538-9 This book was typeset by Marquis Interscript in 10.5 / 13 Sabon. For Calvin G. Seerveld Mentor, colleague, and friend Contents Preface ix Note about Revisions xiii Introduction: “The Point Is to Change It” 3 Part one Art, Culture, and Reformational Aesthetics 1 Toward a Shared Understanding of the Arts (1982) 27 2 Francis Schaeffer’s Worldview and Modern Arts (1984) 38 3 Transforming Aesthetics: Reflections on the Work of Calvin G. Seerveld (1995) 60 4 Art Is No Fringe: Introduction to The Arts, Community and Cultural Democracy (2000) 76 5 A Tradition Transfigured: Art and Culture in Reformational Aesthetics (2004) 87 6 (Un)Timely Voyage: Calvin Seerveld’s Normative Aesthetics (2014) 97 7 Imagination, Art, and Civil Society (2015) 103 Part Two Education, Scholarship, and the Common Good 8 Salt for Humankind: Challenges of Christian Scholarship (1982/2002) 129 9 Studying the Arts for Serviceable Insight (1983) 139 viii Contents 10 Teaching for Transformation: Philosophy in the Undergraduate Curriculum (1989) 146 11 Adult Children of the Enlightenment (1992) 154 12 Living Water: The Future of Higher Education in the Reformed Tradition (1998/2002) 160 13 Living at the Crossroads: Ethical Scholarship and the Common Good (2011) 170 14 Spirituality, Religion, and the Call to Love: On Being a Christian Philosopher (2014) 180 Publication Information 197 Notes 201 Works Cited 229 Index 245 Preface This is the second of two volumes that collect my essays in and about reformational philosophy. Whereas the essays in Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation range across social philosophy, ontology, epistemology, and philosophy of religion, the essays in this second volume primarily address topics of the arts, culture, and higher education. Like the first volume, Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal aims to make my writings on topics in reformational phi- losophy more readily available to fellow participants in this tradi- tion. But it also intends to introduce others to the contributions the reformational tradition has made to cultural reflection and critique, even as it presents my own ideas about the arts, higher education, and socially engaged scholarship. These ideas have taken shape within the matrix of higher educa- tion in the Reformed tradition. A graduate of Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, the Institute for Christian Studies (ics) in Toronto, and the vu University Amsterdam, I have spent my entire profes- sional career at schools in this tradition: first, The King’s University College in Edmonton, Alberta (1981–85); then, Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan (1985–2002); and finally, ics (2002–16). Whether in the classroom, on faculty committees, or within admin- istrative and governance roles, I have had countless occasions to re- flect on Reformed higher education and the project of Christian scholarship, to learn from colleagues, and to try out my ideas. I have also received many invitations to share my ideas at “sister schools.” In fact, just over half of the essays collected here began as such in- vited lectures. I shall always be grateful for the formation and en- couragement I have received in these settings.
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