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The Foundations of Information Systems: Research and Practice, Andrew Basden
What does a dead, white, early-twentieth-century Dutch philosopher have to do with twenty-first-century information systems? Plenty, according to Andrew Basden, Professor of Human Factors and Philosophy in Information Systems at University of Salford, Manchester, UK. He has written this book to show why. The philosopher is Herman Dooyeweerd. Dooyeweerd was the pioneer of a Christian philosophy that has been described as opaque and irrelevant. Basden provides a helpful overview of Dooyeweerd’s, admittedly dense and complex, philosophy — showing that it doesn’t necessarily have to be opaque. He then goes on to apply it to the area of information systems (IS) — showing that it, certainly when it comes to IS, is not irrelevant. Information systems is a very broad academic discipline, it comprises hardware, software and data and includes the design and implementation of computer languages, data models, hardware and software; it is far more than computers, word processing and spreadsheets. It includes data management, data security, data distribution; it is not only the components but also the roles that they play in society. Here Basden focuses on five key ideas: the nature of ICT, its use, features, impact on society and its development.
e-mag0 De1? Complexities of Biblical anthropologies (as Views-of- Humanity) in an e-Age
In hierdie bydrae word Bybelse antropologieë en die geïmpliseerde antropologie in sommige uitdrukkings van die tegnologiese samelewing tans in verband met mekaar gestel. Deur voort te bou op vroeëre navorsing deur die outeur in beide die Bybelwetenskappe en die Kommunikasiekunde, word hier dié twee dissiplines in verdere interaksie met mekaar gebring. Sodoende word ’n oorwoë breëre verstaansraamwerk daargestel vir die beoordeling van, as konkrete toepassingsvoorbeeld, ’n onlangse geval waaroor in die nuusmedia berig is, waarin die Skrif nie net metafories “beliggaming” gevind het nie. ’n Kritiese ingestelheid beteken dat nóg die miskenning van die diversiteit in Bybelse mensbeskouings nóg ’n eensydige afwysing van nuwe tegnologie sal deug. ’n Ingeligte breëre verstaansraamwerk help dat, eerder as om met nuwere kommunikasie-tegnologiese ontwikkelinge op ’n voorskriftelike manier om te gaan, Bybelteks en moderne leefwêreld diskursief met mekaar in verbinding gestel kan word. Sodoende word die moontlikhede van Skrifrelevansie verbreed.
The contours of sound leadership according to an integral Christian worldview
In preceding three articles in this journal much was written on problems connected with weak and even bad leadership, especially on our African continent. It was necessary to penetrate to the deep traditional African, secular Western and muted Christian worldview causes of this state of affairs since a thorough diagnosis prevents one from simply treating the symptoms of the unacceptable behaviour of many, even Christian, leaders. This last article presents a possible therapy from an integral Christian worldview perspective. As an introduction, it first provides the outlines of such a biblically-based view and way of life. The second main section indicates its implications for good leadership by Christians. Firstly, a structural analysis provides important insights indicating what it implies to be a gifted and called leader, who has authority and power to fulfil an office of service so that justice could be done, and to be accountable to his/her followers and finally to God. Secondly, a directional analysis indicates that not only some moral or ethical values but a whole spectrum of values is needed to improve the quality of contemporary leadership. God’s fundamental commandment of love has to be applied in the form of contemporary relevant norms to direct leadership in the different domains of life.
Die kontoere van gesonde leierskap volgens ŉ integrale Christelike lewensvisie Die drie vorige artikels in hierdie reeks het gehandel oor probleme in verband met swak en selfs slegte leierskap, veral op ons Afrika-kontinent. Dit was nodig om deur te dring tot die dieperliggende tradisionele, Westerse en Christelike wortels van die situasie, want so ŉ diagnose voorkom dat ŉ mens slegs die simptome probeer behandel van die onaanvaarbare gedrag van baie, selfs Christelike leiers vandag. Hierdie laaste bydrae bied ŉ positiewe terapie vanuit ŉ integrale, holistiese of omvattende perspektief. As inleiding bied dit eers ŉ kort omskrywing van die buitelyne van so ŉ lewensvisie, terwyl die tweede hoofdeel die implikasies daarvan vir gesonde leierskap aantoon. Eerstens bied ŉ strukturele analise van leierskap belangrike insigte wat, saamgevat, beteken dat ŉ integrale leier iemand is wat (1) met toepaslike gawes, (2) deur God geroep is om (3) met gesag en insig asook (4) die nodige beperkte mag (5) ŉ amp moet vervul (6) met die oog op diens op ŉ bepaalde lewensterrein, sodat (7) geregtigheid daar kan geskied, terwyl so ŉ leier (8) teenoor diegene oor wie hy gesag uitoefen en finalitêr aan God, verantwoording verskuldig is oor hoe hy sy roeping as leier uitvoer. Tweedens dui die direksionele of normatiewe analise aan dat vir goeie leierskap nie net morele of etiese waardes geld nie, maar ŉ hele spektrum daarvan nodig is om bestaande leierskapspatrone te verander. God se fundamentele liefdesgebod moet in die vorm van relevante, hedendaagse norme toegepas word om leierskap op alle lewensterreine positief te rig.
Christian Philosophy: Conceptions, Continuations, and Challenges, J. Aaron Simmons (Ed.)
I beg you, do not let the philosophy of Gentiles be more honest than our Christian philosophy, which (is) the one true philosophy, for its name means the quest or love of wisdom. Augustine, Against Julian Book 4 Chapter 14 §42. Christian philosophy, or at least the term, can be traced back to Augustine. Since Augustine, there have been diverse approaches to what has been called Christian philosophy, as these essays in this collection illustrate. The term is certainly ambiguous. There are many different views as to what constitutes Christian philosophy – though not all of them are reflected in this book. The approaches identified below are obviously, not necessarily exclusive.
Abraham Kuyper’s nascent views on Art
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) began to develop a Reformational approach to art, his work provided a key turning point in the development of contemporary views of Calvinism and art. His view can be summarized as, art is a gift of God that shows itself in an ability, which portrays beauty that can be enjoyed by all. In this paper, I expound his view by looking primarily at his Stone Lecture on ‘Calvinism and art’ (1888), where he draws upon Calvin, and defends Calvinism, extracts from writings on common grace in Wisdom and Wonder (1905) and the final section of his Pro Rege (1912).
I conclude that he was not fully successful in developing a Reformational aesthetic, in that he underplays the role of the antithesis in art and overemphasized the role of beauty. He tended towards a dualistic – almost neo-platonic – view of beauty. However, his nascent views provided the framework for Dooyeweerd to develop an ontology that includes the aesthetic, and Rookmaaker and Seerveld among developed his view that art is part of a cultural mandate and not merely the fringes on a theological garment.