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Calvin Seerveld
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He then went on to study under Doctorate. H. Th. Vollenhoven at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam, where his doctoral dissertation dealt with Croce"s aesthetics. lieutenant was supervised by Vollenhoven and Carlo Antoni.
He then taught philosophy and German at Trinity Christian College, and went on to teach philosophical aesthetics at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto.
Seerveld has been influential in the reformational movement. He has taken Dooyeweerd"s aesthetic modal aspect and developed Dooyeweerd"s ideas.
His book Rainbows for a Fallen World has influenced many Christian artists. In it he argues that "aesthetic obedience is required of everyone by the Lord-artist or not."2
Lambert Zuidervaart identifies four claims that constitute Seerveld"s contribution to aesthetics1:
The aesthetic is part of the fabric of created reality, and aesthetic norms can be violated or ignored only at great cost.
The aesthetic is not limited only to the arts, just as the arts have many facets other than the aesthetic.
The core meaning of the aesthetic - and distinguishing characteristic of the arts - is "allusiveness" or "imaginativity".
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