Vocation, Education and Fine Arts

This is part three of our series entitled Christ and Culture. Bill Dennison, Darryl Hart, Doug Wilson and Nelson Kloosterman each speak from their unique perspectives. Today the participants address the issues of vocation, education and engagement in the fine arts. This series of programs strays from the typical Christ the Center format. This project is an asynchronous debate in the vein of the Counterpoints series published by InterVarsity Press. In future episodes each participant will have the opportunity to criticize the other views.

post photo by Craig Stevens

Books and other media from the participants

Bill Dennison

• Paul’s Two-Age Construction and Apologetics
• The Young Bultmann: Context for His Understanding of God, 1884-1925

Darryl Hart

• A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State
• Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestant
• Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham

Nelson Kloosterman

• The Ten Commandments: Manual for the Christian Life by Joachim Douma (Kloosterman trans.)

Doug Wilson

• Collision: Is Christianity Good for the World?: Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas Wilson
• Five Cities that Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York Shaped Global History
• The Deluded Atheist: A Response to Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion

Participants: Bill Dennison, Camden Bucey, Darryl G. Hart, Doug Wilson, Nelson Kloosterman