Reformed Vitality Continuity and Change in the Face of Modernity

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Pub. Date: 1998-09-03
Publisher(s): UPA
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Summary

Copublished with the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, Reformed Vitality addresses the issue of what constitutes religious vitality and where it can be found within Reformed circles throughout the world. The authors examine evidence of religious vitality among Reformed believers, within Reformed institutions and communities to discover how they have maintained and/or created that vitality in the face of cultural and social fragmentation. This investigation revealed complex and multifaceted patterns that are explored and assessed to create a proper evaluation of the status of religious vitality by interpreting the signs around it. The information gathered shows that many Reformed communities have entered a critical stage, where issues of identity and relevance are central problems that confront their corporate life. Difficult questions arise as the very purpose and essence of Reformed communities are explored along with the place of religious vitality in them.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Graphs
v
List of Tables
vi
Foreword vii
Ronald A. Wells
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction ix
Reformed Vitality in the Face of Modernity
1(16)
Gerard Dekker
Section 1: Models of Continuity
Worldview and Agriculture: A Study of Two Reformed Communities in Iowa
17(16)
Janel Curry-Roper
The ``Fidelity and Chastity'' Amendment: A Competition to Renew the Presbyterian Church
33(18)
William J. Weston
Reformed Communities as Functional Communities: Social Capital, Christian Schools, and Reformed Community Vitality:
51(16)
Rodger R. Rice
Gordon L. Van Harn
Religious Vitality in a Changing Culture: Attitudes of Calvin College Students
67(22)
Corwin E. Smidt
James M. Penning
Section 2: Models of Change
From Sturdy Calvinism to Spiritual Seekership: The Transformation of Religiosity in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands
89(16)
Hijme Stoffels
``The Unpleasant Past'': Assumed Engagement in a New Age
105(14)
Nanne E. Haspels
Paying Peter and/or Paul: Church Finances and Congregational Vitality
119(20)
Roger J. Nemeth
Donald A. Luidens
Reformed and Feminist: Feminist Theology as a Source of Revitalization
139(16)
Lynn Winkels Japinga
Signs of Stress and Vitality: The South African Dutch Reformed Church Experiences a Paradigm Switch
155(18)
H. Jurgens Hendriks
Value System Conflict and Unity: The Dutch Reformed Church and the Uniting Reformed Church in South Africa
173(12)
H. Russel Botman
Civic Calvinism: Source of Scottish Reformed Vitality
185(22)
William Storrar
Conclusion
207(6)
Donald A. Luidens
Corwin E. Smidt
Hijme Stoffels
About the Contributors 213

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