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.

Members of the Dordt community may check any of these books out from the John and Louise Hulst Library. Otherwise, please use your library's Interlibrary Loan program to request them from us.

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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
Crafting the Feedback Teachers Need and Deserve: A Guide for Leaders

Thomas M. Van Soelen

Crafting the Feedback Teachers Need and Deserve illuminates an often overlooked aspect of educational leadership: providing quality written feedback. This resource offers context, purpose, and techniques on how to capture and write beneficial feedback. Proven in school districts, Van Soelen’s ... View More
Poetic Youth Ministry: Learning to Love Young People by Letting Them Go

Jason Lief

Current research shows what many in the Christian community already know: young people are leaving the church. This raises important questions: Why are young people leaving? How can the church respond? Some have responded to this issue out of a ... View More
Reading Mother Teresa: A Calvinist Looks Lovingly at "The Little Bride of Christ"

James C. Schaap

Mother Teresa's dedicated love for the poor of Calcutta brought her admirers from around the world. Millions loved her, none more than the forgotten she felt called to serve. But few had any idea that her love for God seemed ... View More
Political World of Bob Dylan: Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin

Jeff Taylor and Chad Israelson

This is the definitive book on the politics of Bob Dylan. It comprehensively examines his relationship with contemporary social, political, and religious cultures. Generally associated with the New Left politics of the 1960s, Dylan's political worldview transcends that narrow description. ... View More
Introduction to Statistical Investigations

Nathan L. Tintle, Beth L. Chance, George Cobb, Allan Rossman, Soma Roy, Todd Swanson, and Jill L. VanderStoep

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
Exercising Our Worldview: Brief Essays on Issues from Technology to Art from One Christian's Perspective

Charles C. Adams

This book is a collection of 139 brief essays that originated as five-minute radio commentaries. Soon after coming to Dordt College in 1979, Adams established a habit of writing for the “Plumbline” program on the college’s radio station (KDCR 88.5 ... 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
On Kuyper: A Collection of Readings on the Life, Work & Legacy of Abraham Kuyper

Steve Bishop and John H. Kok

Abraham Kuyper, theologian, church reformer, politician, journalist, statesman, prime minister, founder of a church denomination, a university, and a political party, was born in Maassluis in the nineteenth century, he died in The Hague in the twentieth century, but his ... View More
Futurity in Phenomenology: Promise and Method in Husserl, Lévinas, and Derrida

Neal DeRoo

From Husserl’s account of protention to the recent turn to eschatology in “theological” phenomenology, the future has always been a key aspect of phenomenological theories of time. This book offers the first sustained reflection on the significance of futurity for ... View More
Northwoods Hymnal

Luke Hawley

The Northwoods Hymnal is full of stories about connecting and coping, hoping that a little community will keep out the cold of winter. Hawley's characters, from young punk rockers to tight-permed, white-haired women, accomplish that in a myriad of ways: ... View More
Vivid: Deepening Your Colors

Sydney J. Hielema and Aaron Baart

Focusing on the three key themes of identity, kingdom, and calling, Vivid is an excellent resource for church small group discussion, profession of faith study, new member classes, or personal reflection.

While staying true to Reformed doctrine, the authors intentionally ... View More
Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism

Jeff Taylor

Featuring a foreword by Congressman Glen Browder, Politics on a Human Scale examines political decentralization in the United States, from the founding of the republic to the present.

Part of the desirable equilibrium is a sense of proportionality. Some sizes, ... View More
Rise of Reformed System: The Intellectual Heritage of William Ames

Jan van Vliet

This unique and persuasive work establishes the significance of the thought of Puritan William Ames (1576-1633) in deepening and systematizing established Reformation teaching on Christian doctrine and life in a way that ensured its subsequent development through the early modern ... View More
Crossroads of Poverty and Prosperity: The Impact of Religious Beliefs and Worldviews on Economic Outcomes

John Visser

The Crossroads of Poverty and Prosperity carefully investigates how both secular and religious beliefs - and the values emanating from them - may well be the ultimate arbiters of both poverty and prosperity. After summarizing research on the relationship between ... View More
Christian Education: Issues of the Day

John B. Hulst

Dealing with Christian education on a variety of levels, these twelve addresses delivered between 1971 and 1999 document John Hulst's ongoing desire to contribute to and celebrate the "spiritual direction" and "educational excellence" of Christian schools and colleges committed to ... View More
Illuminated Manuscript

David Schelhaas

In his latest book of poetry from Dordt College Press, Dave Schelhaas celebrates the Creator and creation with thirty-seven original poems. In some poems he ruminates on his years as an assistant English professor at Dordt, while in others he ... View More
Proclaiming Christian Education: Let Children Come to Me

Jay Shim

Proclaiming Christian Education is a set of two books written in the Korean language, one for children and one for teachers using the book for children. Following the theme of “Creation, Fall, Redemption,” the books teach children about God and ... View More
Acquainted with the Light

Mike Vanden Bosch

Mike Vanden Bosch remembers how, as a young boy growing up on a farm in Iowa, he heard news of World War II. He also has memories of the hardworking farmers who lived nearby, and he recalls the wild animals ... View More
Wow! What a Ride!: A Journey with Cancer

Cella Bosma and Mike Vanden Bosch

This book is a meditation on a Christian's dying of cancer in the 21st century. It provides a specific instance of how the death of one human being can "diminish" the lives of others. Cella believed she had a fighting ... View More
Rehoboth, A Place for Us: An Album of Family Stories

James C. Schaap

Every family has a story to tell, a unique tale of how they found their way in the world. In this book, twelve families--ten Native American, two Anglo--tell how they found a very special place at Rehoboth Christian School. Rehoboth's ... View More
Finding Christmas: Stories of Startling Joy and Perfect Peace

James C. Schaap

A gift. The baby. The pageant. The parties. The worship. The afterglow. The story. These are the elements of almost every Christmas. In Finding Christmas, award-winning author James Calvin Schaap takes a look at each of these elements through seven ... View More
Sixty at Sixty: A Boomer Reflects on the Psalms

James C. Schaap

Do you look back on life with bittersweet memories? Feel the beauty of the Lord shining on you? Wonder at times where your help will come from? James Schaap is right there with you, and so was King David. In ... View More