Are We There Yet? Economic Justice and the Common Good

On May 12 & 13, 2014, The King’s University College and the Institute for Christian Studies co-hosted a conference on economic justice in Edmonton, Alberta, entitled Are We There Yet? Economic Justice and the Common Good.

• Watch Address by Dr. Bob Goudzwaard (YouTube)

• Watch Address by the Honourable Diane Ablonczy (YouTube)

• Jump to the Conference Archive

ICS conference organisation by the ICS Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics (CPRSE). Ronald A. Kuipers, director of the CPRSE.

The Laws of the Spirit: A Hegelian Theory of Justice

The Laws of the Spirit: A Hegelian Theory of Justice. Shannon Hoff. 2014

Find it at: SUNY Press

From the book cover:
Drawing from a variety of Hegel's writings. Shannon Hoff articulates a theory of justice that requires answering simultaneously to three irreducibly different demands: those of community, universality and individuality. The domains of "ethicality." "legality and "morality" correspond to these essential dimensions of human experience, and a political system that fails to give adequate recognition to any one of these will become oppressive. The commitment to legality emphasized in modern and contemporary political life, Hoff argues, systematically precludes adequate recognition of the formative cultural contexts that Hegel identifies under the name of "ethical life" and of singular experiences of moral duty, or conscience. Countering the perception of Hegel as a conservative political thinker and engaging broadly with contemporary work in liberalism, critical theory, and feminism, Hoff focuses on these themes of ethicality and conscience to consider how modern liberal politics must be transformed if it is to accommodate these essential dimensions of human life.

The Byzantine Icon is Alive and Well: The Practice and Reflections of a Working Iconographer

Thursday March 27, 2014. 7–9 PM
ART TALKS! lecture with iconographer Lynette Hull.

Father Madden Hall, St. Michael’s College
100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto – map

• Rebekah Smick interviewed Lynette Hull in advance of her presentation. You can watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg5ED4WA3rI.

Funding for this event was provided by the Ruth Memorial Fund. Co-sponsored by ICS Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics, Toronto School of Theology and the Toronto School of Theology Liturgy Seminar. Rebekah Smick, organiser.

Preserving the Common, Producing Difference: Neo-Calvinism and the Cultural Turn in the Humanities

ARCU lecture by Dr. Ryan C. McIlhenny
Associate Professor of History and Humanities
Providence Christian College
2013–2014 ARCU lecturer – bio

Listen: audio of lecture and question-and-answer session

Abstract:
A crucial element often missing in the contemporary discussions about Christ and culture is a robust definition of culture. This address offers an updated definition that evaluates traditional evangelical understandings on the topic with contemporary cultural studies and critical theory. Culture, as I propose, is the purely phenomenal identity that springs from human interaction with the created order. Such a definition affirms the common and shared/undifferentiated activities of both Christians and non-Christians that, nonetheless, produce different cultures, preserving the neo-Calvinist emphasis on structure and direction.

Lecture presented by the ICS Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics at the Toronto School of Theology boardroom, 47 Queen’s Park Crescent E., Toronto, Thursday March 20, 2014. 7:30 PM.