Fundamentalism in the CRC: A Critique

This article is a transcribed and lightly edited version of an address given April 9, 1985, at the Christian Reformed Ministers Conference, Dordt College

Absolute Nothingness: Foundations for a Buddhist-Christian Dialogue (Book Review)

Reviewed Title: Absolute Nothingness: Foundations for a Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, by Hans Waldenfels, New York: Paulist Press, 1980. 214 pp

Biblical Authority and the Scientific Enterprise

This article was delivered as a speech to a ministers\u27 conference held at Dordt College on April 20 and 21, 1976

Christian Higher Education in Global Perspective: A Call to Ongoing Reformation

Adaptation of an address given at the International Association for Reformed Faith and Action Conference, given at Zeist, The Netherlands, August, 1982

A whole lot of conscious effort : exploring how protective factors contribute to resiliency in parents who have experienced traumatic events in childhood

The purpose of this research project is to address the multiple variables that contribute to trauma exposure in childhood and how it manifests in the traumatized person’s later parenting styles. The over-arching research question is: do protective factors provide sufficient supports to parents who were subjected to traumatic experiences in childhood in order to lessen the transmission of trauma to their own children? This qualitative study is an assessment of interviews with 18 participants who identify as parents who have experienced at least one traumatic event in childhood. Findings of this study implicate a high level of resilience that has provided a framework for participants to engage in more intentional parenting, resulting in improved parent-child relationships between them and their own children

Geopolitics and empire: visions of regional world order in the 1940s

This essay examines the influence of geopolitical and imperial thought on theories of international relations in the United States. The paper assesses the thought of Owen Lattimore, a leading American sinologist and political adviser to F. D. Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-shek, and Nicholas John Spykman, an influential international-relations scholar at Yale. In the framework of the Second World War and the "air age", they envisaged a tripolar world order that entailed a new conception of political space and international relations. Lattimore's global geopolitical order sought to replace imperialism with democracy, while Spykman employed geopolitical concepts to envisage a tripolar order of "balanced powers" which built upon - rather than rejected - existing imperial structures. This paper examines their international theories and the policy implications of their thought to claim that 1940s theoretical interdisciplinarity made an important contribution to the development of the discipline of international relations in the United States

Discussions and Reviews : Theorizing about theory in international politics

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66906/2/10.1177_002200276000400405.pd

The soft power of development: aid and assistance as public diplomacy activities

Following a political communications framework can provide useful critical understanding of the international philanthropic industries beyond the more traditional approaches of political economy, anthropology and postcolonial studies. To this end, this chapter frames foreign aid and development assistance through theories of soft power, arguing that these activities are acts of public diplomacy and thereby conducive to the source government's power accumulation motive. This is open to some contest across the literature as research framed under international political economy or social anthropology often assumes that international power redistribution is the primary motive. Analysis of these programmes under the soft power framework allows for the discussion of the multitude of audiences that the activities engage with beyond the direct recipients of assistance as part of the power accumulation precedent. The chapter will hereby discuss the role of morality and compassion within the policy-making process, which leads to the question of whether we should really be considering whether most aid and development is in fact meant to work rather than the more popular query of why so much of it does not work