Dr. Jared Ortiz
Associate Professor of Religion
Deification in the Latin Patristic Tradition
Catholic University of America Press
Dr. Jared Ortiz edited this volume of essays about the doctrine of deification in the early Christian centuries. Deification is a vision of salvation which claims that believers can become “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4) through union with Christ. Ortiz retrieves this doctrine which was thought not to be present in the Latin-speaking church. The essays cover the great figures of the early church, including Ambrose, Augustine and Jerome.
Meet Dr. Ortiz at spera.hope.edu/ortiz-human
Dr. Daniel Woolsey
Professor of Spanish, Department Chair
Rostros
Evia Learning
This innovative second-year Spanish text is based on cultural content that engages students in reading and discussion about cultures in which Spanish is spoken. Lead author Dr. Daniel Woolsey collaborated on the multi-media portfolio with Dr. Lee Forester (German) for Evia Learning, a company that publishes language learning materials that build students’ cultural competency along with communication skills, so they can connect meaningfully with speakers of another language for the rest of their lives.
Hear Dr. Woolsey describe Rostros’ cultural focus at evialearning.com/rostros-2
Dr. Angela Carpenter
Assistant Professor of Religion
Responsive Becoming: Moral Formation in Theological, Evolutionary, and Developmental Perspective
T&T Clark
In this examination of the doctrine of sanctification, Dr. Angela Carpenter draws on evolutionary anthropology, developmental psychology and Christian theology as she considers how moral formation takes shape. Can human moral goodness, she asks, be received as a gift of God’s grace? Learn more.
Dr. Steven Bouma-Prediger
Leonard and Marjorie Maas Professor of Reformed Theology
Earthkeeping and Character
Baker Academic
Building on his book For the Beauty of the Earth, Dr. Steven Bouma-Prediger presents care for creation — earthkeeping — as an integral part of what it means to be a Christian. Exploring the virtues and character traits bound up in that task, he encourages readers to reconsider how they think about the natural world and their place in it.
Dr. Steven Hoogerwerf
Associate Professor of Religion
Honoring God with Body and Mind: Sexual Ethics for Christians
Cascade
Informed by decades of conversations with students about sensitive topics about sex, Dr. Steven Hoogerwerf takes a conversational approach to examining questions on young Christians’ minds. He invites readers into a life-long process of Christian ethical reflection.
Dr. Rakesh Peter-Dass
Assistant Professor of Religion
Hindi Christian Literature in Contemporary India
Routledge
From case studies, Dr. Rakesh Peter-Dass develops insights about links between language, religion and politics, and documents how literature of Hindi-speaking North India presents Christianity as linguistically Hindi, culturally Indian and theologically informed by other religions.
Jack Ridl
Professor Emeritus of English
Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
Wayne State University Press
Imaginative, intimate meditations on everyday life, love and aging by retired Hope English professor Jack Ridl, a prolific poet. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins says the book “delights and surprises us poem by poem.”
David James
Adjunct Associate Professor of English, Coordinator of Academic Coaching
Surreal Expulsion
The Poetry Box
In the wake of yet another mass school shooting, David James penned this chapbook of poems that respond to violence, injustice and what James calls “political negligence” worldwide.
Second Global Congress on Sport and Christianity
October 2019 at Calvin University
Yale theologian Dr. Miroslav Volf, Hope historian Dr. Fred Johnson, Special Olympian Loretta Claiborne and pro athlete Tim Tebow were among the keynote speakers at this conference co-sponsored by Hope College and Calvin University. Hope’s Dr. Chad Carlson (kinesiology) and Calvin’s Dean of Education (and professor of kinesiology) Dr. Brian Bolt were the co-directors. Over five days, 240 participants from 20 nations explored the mutual impact of belief and sport, and sport’s impact on faith and culture.
Listen at spera.hope.edu/carlson-bolt-podcast to Carlson and Bolt’s podcast Dig Deep: Sport, Faith, Life
Uniting Mind and Body: Cognition, Embodiment and Liturgy
Society of Christian Philosophers Central Regional Conference September 2019 at Hope College
Hope philosophy faculty organized this forum for presentations by scholars affiliated with 29 colleges and universities. Speakers explored the relationship between mind and body, the ways we experience embodiment, cognitive science, and wide-ranging related topics including time loops, brain death and skeptical theism. Hope faculty members Dr. Joseph LaPorte, Dr. Greg Bassett, Dr. Jack Mulder, Dr. Kate Finley, Dr. Kevin Kambo and professor and dean Dr. Sandra Visser chaired six of the conference sessions.
Peruse the speakers’ abstracts at spera.hope.edu/philosophy-abstracts