Seeking Understanding

Seeking Understanding
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Seeking Understanding: The Stob Lectures, 1986-1998

Description of Seeking Understanding:

The prestigious Stob Lectures, presented each October at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary in honor of Henry J. Stob, have drawn some of today's most celebrated Christian thinkers in the fields of ethics, apologetics, and philosophical theology. This volume collects under one cover all of the Stob Lectures from Lewis Smedes's inaugural talks in 1986 to Eleonore Stump's lectures in 1998.

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The Stob Lectures, sponsored annually by Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary, have drawn some of today's most celebrated Christian thinkers in the fields of ethics, apologetics, and philosophical theology. This volume collects under one cover each of the Stob Lectures delivered from 1986 to 1998.Comprised of thirteen learned, relevant, and well-crafted addresses, Seeking Understanding presents a diverse range of significant topics, illumined in engaging ways by the scholars who know them best. Lewis B. Smedes's inaugural lecture examines the subject of commitment. James M. Gustafson follows with a look at moral discourse, while Peter Kreeft speaks on immortality. Alvin Plantinga explores the nature of Christian scholarship, and Martin E. Marty surveys the denominational landscape. Allen D. Verhey probes key issues in medical ethics, while Nicholas P. Wolterstorff compares neo-Calvinism and "Yale theology." Other lectures feature Dewey J. Hoitenga Jr. on happiness, John Feikens on conflict, George I. Mavrodes on philosophy, Arthur F. Holmes on Christian education, and J. Harold Ellens on dysfunction. Eleonore Stump rounds out the volume with an insightful discussion of the problem of evil.Illustrative of the depth of thinking, scholarly passion, and clarity of expression that characterized the work of the man whom these lectures honor, Henry J. Stob, Seeking Understanding is both a valuable omnibus and a superb introduction to a rich and influential tradition of Christian scholarship.Henry J. Stob (1908-1996), after whom these lectures are named, was born in Chicago in 1908. He was educated at Calvin College, Calvin Theological Seminary, Hartford Theological Seminary, and the University of Gottingen. He began his academic career as a professor of philosophy at Calvin College in 1939. In 1952 he was named professor of philosophy and moral theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. There he taught, with a year's interruption as a visiting professor of ethics at the Kobe Reformed Seminary in Japan and the Hapdong Seminary in Seoul, Korea, until his retirement. He received the Calvin College Distinguished Alumni Award in 1976.

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The prestigious Stob Lectures, presented each October at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary in honor of Henry J. Stob, have drawn some of today's most celebrated Christian thinkers in the fields of ethics, apologetics, and philosophical theology. This volume collects under one cover all of the Stob Lectures from Lewis Smedes's inaugural talks in 1986 to Eleonore Stump's lectures in 1998. (The 1999 presentation by John Hare, titled God's Call, is now available as an independent volume as will be all subsequent Stob Lectures.)