The Relation of the Bible to Learning: The Unionville Lectures

by H. Evan Runner

Publisher:

Paideia Press

, 2023

Overview

This book contains the lectures which Dr. H. Evan Runner presented to two student conferences in 1959 and 1960. Runner was professor of philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 1951 until 1981, when he became professor of philosophy emeritus. The conferences were sponsored by the Association for Reformed Scientific Studies, now called the Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship, which today owns and operates the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. They were presented at a conference center in Unionville, a lovely little village just to the north of Toronto. The audience consisted primarily of students, teachers and preachers of Reformed background who had emigrated from Holland to Canada after the second world war.

Key Features

• Contains the lectures which Dr. H. Evan Runner presented to two student conferences in 1959 and 1960.
• Compiles the lectures given at a conference center in Unionville.
• Speaks to an audience consisted primarily of students, teachers and preachers of Reformed background.

Contents

• Chapter 1 General Introduction
• Chapter 2 Thesis
• Chapter 3 Antithesis
• Chapter 4 Synthesis
• Chapter 5 Scientific & Pre-Scientific
• Chapter 6 Sphere-Sovereignty

Product Details

• Title: The Relation of the Bible to Learning: The Unionville Lectures
• Author: H. Evan Runner
• Publisher: Paideia Press
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Pages: 384
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9780888153289, 0888153287
• Resource ID: LLS:RLTNBBLLRNNG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-02T19:41:42Z

About H. Evan Runner

Howard Evan Runner (1916-2002) graduated with honours from Wheaton College. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in theology from Westminster Theological Seminary. He subsequently received an appointment as a junior fellow at Harvard University. After earning a Master’s degree in theology at Westminster he travelled to the Free University of Amsterdam where he earned the Ph.D. degree. Runner taught Philosophy at Calvin College from 1951 until his retirement in 1981.