Books by Dordt Authors

This book gallery showcases monographs written or edited by the Dordt University community. Where available, we've provided a link for purchasing a printed copy of the selected work or finding it in a library near you.

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The Demonologists' Daughters

Scott Culpepper

Diana Chambers thought she escaped her life as the daughter of famous demon hunters Denny and Lucille Hebert, that is until an exorcism turns fatal and her father is charged with murder. Now, forced to return home to Louisiana and ... View More
Always Becoming, Never Arriving

David J. Mulder

Does Jesus care how I arrange the desks in my classroom? How I evaluate student work? The way I interact with students and colleagues? What if all these small, moment-by-moment classroom decisions a Christian teacher makes are actually the evidence ... View More
Engaging Faith: My Story in God's Story

Jay Shim

This book is the fruit of lifelong study through which Jay Shim has pondered the Christian grounding for our lives and an understanding of redemption that encompasses all of God's creation. Dr. Shim's writing honors Biblical revelation from Genesis through ... View More
Foundations of Special Education

Kathleen Van Tol

This book surveys the provision of special education services to students in grades Pre-k-12 with disabilities. It includes the history of special education, legal issues related to the field of special education, and characteristics of learners who qualify for services.
Navigating Reformed Identity in the Rural Dutch Republic

Kyle J. Dieleman

Through an examination of Dutch Reformed church records and theological texts, Kyle Dieleman explores the local dynamics of religious life in the early modern Dutch Republic. The book argues that within the religiously plural setting of the Dutch Republic church ... View More
Language Translation in Localizing Religious Musical Practice

John MacInnis and Jeremy Perigo

The focus of this Special Issue is language translation in the process of localizing religious musical practice. As an alternative to related concepts (such as contextualization and indigenization), musical localization is presented by ethnomusicologists Monique Ingalls, Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg, and ... View More
Science and Religion: Perspectives Across Disciplines

Claudia May and Channon Visscher

This book interweaves science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields with the arts, humanities, theology, and psychology to cultivate discussion on science and religion alongside biblical interpretation. This anthology is paradoxically ecumenical, for it embraces unifying and disparate positions without ... View More
Interpreting Your World: Five Lenses for Engaging Theology and Culture

Justin Bailey

Whether we interpret Scripture or culture, it matters what we do, not just what we think or feel. How do we live with our interpretation, and how do we live it out? This book helps us understand how culture forms ... View More
A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers

Ethan Brue, Derek Schuurman, and Steven H. VanderLeest

Our technology shapes the way we live, interact, work, play, and even worship. Technology and its power are both old and new―as is the wisdom we need to envision, design, build, and use it well. For Christians passionate about developing ... View More
Explorations in Modern Mathematics

Mike Janssen

This text is sufficient for a one-semester “liberal arts” math course. My stated goal with the text is to expand its readers’ notion of the sorts of questions that mathematics can help answer.
Introduction to Statistical Investigations (2nd ed.)

Nathan L. Tintle, Beth L. Chance, George W. Cobb, Allan J. Rossman, Soma Roy, Todd M. Swanson, and Jill L. Vander Stoep

This book leads students to learn about the process of conducting statistical investigations from data collection, to exploring data, to statistical inference, to drawing appropriate conclusions. The text is designed for a one-semester introductory statistics course.

It focuses on genuine ... View More
reimagining apologetics

Justin Bailey

For many Christians, the traditional approach of apologetics has grown stale. In light of the current secular climate, as described by Charles Taylor and others, rhetorical strategies that previously served the church and apologists well are no longer effective. Justin ... View More
Creator and Creation According to Calvin on Genesis

Rebekah Earnshaw

In this book the author offers a new theological reading of Calvin's Genesis commentary and sermons, with an eye to systematic interests.

This analysis is presented in four chapters: The Creator, The Agent and Act of Creation, Creatures, and Providence. ... View More
Intermediate Statistical Investigations

Nathan L. Tintle, Beth L. Chance, Karen McGaughey, Soma Roy, Todd M. Swanson, and Jill L. Vander Stoep

In students' first course in Statistics, the focus was on learning about the process of conducting statistical investigations, most likely investigating research questions involving one variable or the association between two variables. This involved (1) identifying a research question, (2) ... View More
Rings with Inquiry: An Inquiry-Oriented Introduction to Ring Theory

Mike Janssen and Melissa Lindsey

The goal of this book is to explore the idea of factorization from an abstract perspective. Throughout this book, we will walk in the realms of abstraction, and catch glimpses of the beauty and incredible power of this perspective on mathematics.
Introduction to Statistical Investigations (AP ed.)

Nathan L. Tintle, Ruth E. Carver, Beth L. Chance, George W. Cobb, Allan J. Rossman, Soma Roy, Todd M. Swanson, and Jill L. Vander Stoep

This is a standalone textbook. Introduction to Statistical Investigations leads students to learn about the process of conducting statistical investigations from data collection, to exploring data, to statistical inference, to drawing appropriate conclusions. The text is designed for a one-semester ... View More
On Islam

Abraham Kuyper, James D. Bratt, Douglas A. Howard, and Jan van Vliet

Part travelogue, part cultural critique, On Islam presents a European imperialist seeing firsthand the damage colonialism had caused and the value of a religion he had never truly understood. Here, Kuyper's doctrine of common grace shines as he displays a ... View More
Kerst: Zeven Preken van C.H. Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon and Leendert van Beek

This book is a translation of Spurgeon's Christmas: Seven Sermons into the Dutch language by faculty member Leendert van Beek.
A Spiral Approach to Financial Mathematics

Nathan L. Tintle, Nathan Schelhaas, and Todd Swanson

A Spiral Approach to Financial Mathematics lays a foundation of intuitive analysis of financial concepts early in the course, followed by a more detailed and nuanced treatment in later chapters. It introduces major financial concepts through real situations, integrates active ... View More
Sound Stewardship: How Shall Christians Think about Music?

Karen DeMol

In Sound Stewardship, Karen DeMol presents an understanding of music as rooted in creation and an overview of the implications of the realities of Creation, Fall, redemption, and the coming Eschaton for music. Intended for music-makers and music-lovers and for ... View More
Holding Together

Eric Forseth

My mother lived an amazingly full life, even though she struggled with Multiple Sclerosis (M.S.) for twenty-four years. For many years I've considered writing a book about my family's experiences as the nine of us sought to cope with the ... View More
Coaching the RPO Offense

Rich Hargitt and Joel Penner

Coaching the RPO Offense provides step-by-step, detailed information on why and how to implement run/pass option concepts (RPOs). The book explores the difference between approaching the RPO offense from a spread option mindset and from an air raid mindset. The ... View More
Coaching Teacher-Writers: Practical Steps to Nurture Professional Writing

Troy Hicks, Anne Elrod Whitney, James Fredricksen, and Leah A. Zuidema

When teachers write, good things can happen; writing helps educators to better understand themselves, as well as students, parents, and colleagues. This practical book illustrates how to encourage, lead, and sustain teacher-writers, especially in group contexts. In contrast to guides ... View More
Paul's Language of Zēlos: Monosemy and the Rhetoric of Identity and Practice

Benjamin J. Lappenga

In Paul’s Language of Ζῆλος, Benjamin Lappenga harnesses linguistic insights recently formulated within the framework of relevance theory to argue that within the letters of Paul (specifically Galatians, 1-2 Corinthians, and Romans), the ζῆλος word group is monosemic. Linking the ... View More
Up the Hill

James C. Schaap

Up the Hill by James Calvin Schaap is inspirational literary fiction, a series of interconnected short stories about how the dead handle being spirits in a world that continues on without them, but also with them. Narrated by the town's ... View More