Books by Open Circle Publishing
(Sen McGlinn and Sonja van Kerkhoff)

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Dans le jardin des beaux arts
Artists book about a project
by Jacquline Wassen, Sonja van Kerkhoff
and Sen McGlinn

Contents: a little history of the 16 - 17th century Leiden courtyard and the 300 year old arts society, then about the installation and the work from the residency in New Zealand in 2000. See below for an idea of the contents.

  • About the project in the courtyard,
    May - June 2001

  • About the project in W(h)anganui,
    July - August 2000

The book (15 x 20 cm) of 16 pages, 2001,
costs 5 Euros or $US 5. 20 black and white photos and drawings with a full colour cover. Text in Dutch and English. Edition of 500.

Info about the CDrom of interactive adventures in the garden of Fine Arts (Dans le jardin des beaux arts) to come - available in the future.

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Grains of Salt
Artists book about a project
by Jacquline Wassen, Gaudi Hoedaya, Sonja van Kerkhoff and Sen McGlinn

Contents: text and images about 3 related projects in Dutch and English

The book (15 x 20 cm) of 16 pages, 1999,
costs 6 Euros. 18 black and white photos with a full colour cover. Text in Dutch and English. Edition of 300.

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Booklet about art by
Sonja van Kerkhoff, 1989 - 1998

Text and images about paintings, prints, installations, performances, and sculpture made between 1989 and 1999. It is more or less the same text as is on this website. See: part one through to part seven

The book (15 x 20 cm) of 16 pages, 1999,
costs 5 Euros
including packing/postage.
33 black and white photos. Text in English. Edition of 300.

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A Theology of the State from the Bahá´í Teachings
by Sen McGlinn

Article Reprint from the Journal of Church and State, U.S.A.

This article seeks to provide a religious rationale for embracing the multi-centred post-modern society, and for rejecting monist social models. In particular it provides a theological underpinning for the separation of church and state. Its thesis is that church and state are distinct in the Kingdom of God, and the Kingdom of God is growing on earth where church and state are distinct, but closely related. The first part explains the Bahá´í teachings regarding civil government and its relationship to institutional religion, on the basis of selections from the Bahá´íscriptures. It concludes with some elements of a Bahá´í political theology. The second part suggests a metaphysical model that justifies the organic model of society, in which the religious and political order are properly distinct organs with differing logics, and no one organ can control the whole or claim a unique relationship to the divine. The argument in this section is presented in a neoplatonic language common to theologies of the Western monotheistic faiths, in the hope that this approach may be of use for theologians of other Faiths.

The book (15 x 20 cm) of 26 pages, softcover,
costs 4 Euros.

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Soundings: Essays in Bahá´í Theology
Edited by Sen McGlinn

Contents

  • Writing history in a secular age by Karen Austin

  • Father, Son and Holy Spirit in Christianity, Islam, and the Bahá´í Faith by Bronwyn Elsmore

  • Introduction fo the Bible in modern research by Sen McGlinn

  • Anti-positivism, teaching and the Bahá´í Faith by Alison Marshall

  • Religious belief and the mutability of scientific theory by William Michael

  • Is the Bahá´í Faith a world religion? by Moojan Momen

The book (15 x 20 cm) of 64 pages, softcover, (first published in 1989, second edition, 1994)
costs 5 Euros. Five illustrations by Sonja van Kerkhoff.

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New Vessels
poem by Sen McGlinn, illustrations by Sonja van Kerkhoff



The poem, New Vessels (self-published in 1987) is a response to Eliot's The Waste Land in the form of a journey through night, a descent into darkness and return to the light. It uses the pattern of resurrection-myth, which couples death and fertility, and the opposed imagery of the apocalyptic and of the voyage of discovery, as pictures of two possibilities in the turning moment of choice. Sen McGlinn was born in 1956 and grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand. Collections of lyrics appear in 1974 (Dawndreams, College Writers/Caxton Press) and 1984 (Feeding Harbour, self-published). Larger view of the pages above (146 KB).

The 28 page book with 16 illustrations by Sonja van Kerkhoff
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