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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Near Unto God
James C. Schaap and Abraham Kuyper
With a sure hand and a passion for preserving the essential Kuyper, James C. Schaap has pared away the complex language of a century-old translation of the original Dutch text "Nabij God te Zijn" (1908) to reveal the heart of ... View More
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God of Material Things
David Schelhaas
The God of Material Things is a book of poems, many of which Schelhaas says he found along the streets of Sioux Center while walking to work each morning over the course of nearly 20 years.
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Fostering a Reflective Culture in the Christian School: The Maplewood Story
John Van Dyk
In an engaging and conversational style, Van Dyk tells the fictional story of his sabbatical as a consultant in a Christian school. Each of the short 40 chapters highlights an aspect of the school calendar: from planning for the first ... View More
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Crossing Over: Stories of Asian Refugee Christians
James C. Schaap
These are some of the stories of Southeast Asian refugees that came to Iowa under Governor Robert E. Ray's leadership in the early 1980s and as the years passed came to know Christ and the Christian community in and around ... View More
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Doorkeeper In God's Household: The Memoirs of John B. Hulst
John B. Hulst
A Doorkeeper in God's Household is an important historical document as it chronicles the nearly thirty years that John Hulst served at Dordt College--as College Pastor, Theology Professor, Dean of Students, Vice President for Student Affairs and, finally, College President. ... View More
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Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History
Keith C. Sewell
This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in ... View More
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Celebrating the Vision : The Reformed Perspective of Dordt College
John H. Kok
This jubilee volume of collected essays celebrates Dordt College's first fifty years of service in the Kingdom of God. Dordt College exists to help students grow in wisdom and insight with an eye to a flourishing life in God's world. ... View More
