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VIDEO: ICS President
John Suk on the heart
and mission of ICS
Summer School 2008
Registration Still Open
CONFERENCE
Law as Vocation
Toronto, Aug. 13-15
Strategic Plan
2007 to 2012
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Summer Faculty
| Dr. Lambert Zuidervaart, PhD (Vrije Universiteit), MPhil (Institute for Christian Studies) is Professor of Philosophy at ICS, and a member of the Graduate Faculty in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He holds ICS’s Herman Dooyeweerd Chair in Social and Political Philosophy. Zuidervaart’s primary interests lie in continental philosophy, social philosophy, and philosophy of discourse, with an emphasis on Kant, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, feminism, and Critical Theory. His most recent works include Social Philosophy after Adorno (Cambridge UP, 2007), Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure (Cambridge UP, 2004). Before joining ICS’s faculty in 2002, he taught philosophy at The King's University College in Edmonton (1981-1985) and at Calvin College (1985-2002), where he was Philosophy Department Chair. |
| | Dr. Ronald A. Kuipers, PhD (Vrije Universiteit), MPhil (Institute for Christian Studies) is assistant professor of the philosophy of religion. His research and teaching concentrate on the continuing social relevance of religious life patterns in pluralistic Western societies. He pursues that discussion by working with such intellectual traditions as pragmatism and critical theory, among others. Kuipers is the author of Critical Faith: Toward a Renewed Understanding of Religious Life and its Public Accountability and Solidarity and the Stranger: Themes in the Social Philosophy of Richard Rorty. He has co-edited two books: Walking the Tightrope of Faith: Philosophical Conversations about Reason and Religion and Philosophy as Responsibility: A Celebration of Hendrik Hart's Contribution to the Discipline. |
| | Dr. Shannon Hoff, PhD (State University of New York, Stonybrook), is assistant professor of social and political philosophy. She is primarily interested in contemporary political, legal, and feminist philosophy in the continental tradition, as well as in Hegel and his relevance to these discussions. She is the author of several articles, including "Restoring Antigone to Ethical Life: Nature and Sexual Difference in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit." She is presently working on a book manuscript that explores the prospects of Hegel's theories of law and forgiveness for current discussions of the nature and limits of liberal legalism. She is also putting together an edited collection on Hegel and race, gender, and post-colonial critique. Before joining the ICS faculty in July, 2007, Shannon taught philosophy at Muskingum College in Ohio for two years. |
| | Dr. Jeffrey Dudiak, PhD (Vrije Universiteit) is a Quaker philosopher with a Reformational bent,and an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The King’s University College, Edmonton. Specializing in Continental phenomenological/hermeneutical) philosophy of religion and ethics, his principal publication to date is The Intrigue of Ethics: A study of the idea of discourse in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas. He is currently working on a little manifesto for a philosophical pneumatology entitled In Spirit and in Truth. |
| Dr. Sylvia Keesmaat, PhD (University of Oxford) is Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies at the Institute for Christian Studies. She is the author of Paul and His Story, and co-author (with Brian Walsh) of Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire. In addition to teaching occasionally at ICS, Dr. Keesmaat teaches in the Creation Care Study Program in Belize. |
| | Dr. Helen Sterk, PhD (University of Iowa) is Chair and Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College, Michigan. Dr. Sterk has written widely on rhetoric, feminism, gender, and popular culture. She has co-authored or co-edited several books, including her most recent collaboration, Gender and Applied Communication (Sage Publications 2004) and Who's Having This Baby? Perspectives on Birthing (Michigan State University Press, 2002), as well as Differences That Make a Difference (edited with Lynn Turner; Bergin & Garvey, 1994) and Constructing and Reconstructing Gender (edited with Linda A. M. Perry and Lynn Turner; State University of New York Press, 1992). Dr. Sterk edited the Journal of Communication and Religion from 2003-2006 and serves on three journal editorial boards. |
| | Dr. Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin, PhD (Vrije Universiteit) taught philosophical aesthetics at the Institute for Christian Studies (ICS) in Toronto from 1999 - 2007 and is now adjunct faculty member of ICS and of the Toronto School of Theology. She served as President of the Canadian Society for Aesthetics and as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Aesthetics. Her research interests are the problem of meaning in art, art and embodiment, phenomenology and theological aesthetics. Dr. Dengerink Chaplin has published articles and chapters in Contemporary Aesthetics, Christian Scholar's Review, Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition, The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics and It was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God. She is co-author of Art and Soul: Signposts for Christians in the Arts (IVP, 2002) and currently works as an independent scholar and speaker in Cambridge, UK. |
| | Dr. Wessel Stoker, PhD (Vrije Universiteit) teaches aesthetics and philosophy of religion at the Free University, Amsterdam. He holds the chair of Aesthetics for the faculties of Philosophy, Theology and Letters. He has written several books in Dutch: De christelijke godsdienst in de filosofie van de Verlichting (1980); (co)authored Verhulde Waarheid (2000); and in English: Is the Quest for Meaning the Quest for God? (1996) and Is Faith Rational? (2006). He is now preparing a book on Theological Aesthetics. |
| | Dr. James H. Olthuis, PhD (Vrije Universiteit) is professor emeritus of philosophical theology at the Institute for Christian Studies where he has taught since 1968.Among his publications are The Beautiful Risk (Zondervan, 2001; Wipf and Stock, 2006), Keeping Our Troth (Harper & Row, 1986), and I Pledge You My Troth (1976). Dr. Olthuis has also edited Religion With/Out Religion (Routledge, 2002), Towards an Ethics of Community (Wilfrid Laurier, 2000), and Knowing Other-wise (Fordham U.P., 1997). He is a psychotherapist in private practice and a grandfather who rollerblades to the office. |
| | Dr. John D. Caputo, PhD (Bryn Mawr) is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University. He is also David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova University where he taught from 1968 until 2004. Dr. Caputo’s newest books are What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (Baker, 2007); The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event, (Indiana University Press, 2006), winner of the 2007 AAR Book Award, “Constructive-Reflective Studies,” and Philosophy and Theology (Abingdon, 2006). He has recently edited Transcendence and Beyond (Indiana, 2007), Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions and Circumfession, co-edited with Michael Scanlon (Indiana U. P., 2005). Other recent publications include On Religion (Routledge, 2001), More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing Who We Are (Indiana, 2000), The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion (Indiana U.P., 1997), Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (Fordham U.P., 1997). |
| | Dr. Gloria Goris Stronks, EdD (Northern Illinois University) was a classroom teacher and reading specialist for 17 years. Dr. Stronks was on the faculty at Dordt College, Iowa for six years and at Calvin College, Michigan for 16 years. Gloria is presently a scholar in residence at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington and also serves as Director of Continuing Education for Teachers for Worldwide Christian Schools. |
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