God Picks Up The Pieces

Seerveld, Calvin G.

Religion & Spirituality

Dordt Press

Seerveld is convinced that philosophical aesthetics-systematic reflection on the nature and task of human imaginative life-will be normative when the thought is wholesome, edible, worth chewing, and builds the body of a community with joyful shalom. Normative Aesthetics, introduced by Lambert Zuidervaart, aims to spell out some of what this aesthetic imperative means for human imaginative acts, for the arts, and for other acts and institutions where aesthetic functions play a role.

Normative Aesthetics: Sundry Writings and Occasional Lectures

Dordt College Press

The essays in Art History Revisited, introduced by Dirk van den Berg and Henry Luttikhuizen, follow a general course from the historiography of philosophy to the historiography of art and aesthetics to analyses of individual artists like Antoine Watteau and Gerald Folkerts and the theory and practice of artist/aestheticians like William Hogarth and Anton Raphael Mengs. As this selection of essays attests, Seerveld is both well-versed in the history of art and has made significant contributions to this field as well.

Art History Revisited: Sundry Writings and Occasional Lectures

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Seerveld sees a central role in education for "understanding and developing history," but then "history" not as rote rehearsal of what has transpired but as past and present events in their complex interrelation. Education is inevitably an induction into our cultural heritage; conceived ecumenically, in the spirit of loving our neighbors and their "mistaken visions," wherever and whenever they may be. But as Cultural Education and History Writing makes plain, we are initiators - culture-makers, shapers of history, and also history-keepers - as much as we are inductees. These seventeen essays are introduced by Doug Blomberg and Gideon Strauss.

Cultural Education and History Writing: Sundry Writings and Occasional Lectures

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

"Knowledge" in Proverbs means "firsthand, intimate experience of what God wants done"; and "wisdom" means "you are able to judge what God wants done"; and "instruction" means "the rigorous discipline of acting according to God's Will." As a great-grandchild of the historic Reformation, Seerveld's Bible reading is one that assumes "the Bible be read as sacred Scripture." This we do in the communion of the saints, living and dead, carefully trusting the text will lead the community of faith enough to find definite direction in "the entire manner of service which God requires of us." Such a trusting experience is crankled by practically all Proverbs commentators. They treat the text like a collection of individual sayings, loose from any defined context - a kind of anthology of nuggets of wisdom arranged in apparently random fashion for our benefit and admonition. The assumed contextlessness of the sayings collected, however, easily makes their interpretation arbitrary, truistic, or opaque. Udo Skladny helped set the record straight, arguing that the earliest original calling of biblical proverbial wisdom is for people to respect and follow the Lord's order for everyday life, which is first of all ordering to be trusted and obeyed truly as the Lord God's will, full of blessing. So too, Ray Van Leeuwen argues: "If the text presents us with larger, unified blocks of proverbial material, the exegete possesses a much surer basis for interpretation than if only a random accretion of isolated proverbs exists." Here precisely lies the underlying thesis of this book: Expect poetic paragraphs within Proverbs, because the artful comparisons and oblique riddles are rooted historically and professionally in the office of wise leaders recounted in the Bible and have been written down by God-breathed educated literary scribes. Finding the poetic parameters in Proverbs so as to discern the unified paragraphs will open up this book of sayings (also for good preaching).

How to Read the Biblical Book of Proverbs: In paragraphs

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