COMPLEMENTARY TRUTHS AND HERESY Christian theology consists largely, if not exclusively, of pairs of complementary truths. Divine sovereignty and human responsibility, the deity of Christ and his humanity. election and the covenant of grace, reprobation and the sincere offer of the gospel, Christianity as doctrine and as life, the guidance of the church into the […]
When we remember our debt to the Reformation we usually do not think of going back 600 years to a time more than a century before Martin Luther. Yet in the fragmentary records of the half-forgotten life of John Wyclif there is an anticipation of Reformation teaching that deserves much more attention than it usually receives. A […]
“The stock market crash in 1929 and the Great Depression which followed proved the failure of private enterprise and the need for government intervention. This kind of economic pontification may be heard in any gathering of ‘liberals’ and some books have been published in the recent past to give this neurosis intellectual respectability. “If one really wants to […]
Throughout the world men and women work with the soil wherever conditions permit. Some do not produce enough food for their own families. This is true in areas in which there is not sufficient moisture, or where there is not enough warmth. Others, however, produce enough food to sell to others. They are able to sell […]
What‘s this world coming to? Here is a question asked by many thinking people. Is not a seething caldron of unrest, rebellion, anarchy? With the Psalmist we pray, “Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty” (Psalm 74:20). What is the Church coming to? That too […]
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of […]
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar; and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of […]
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old; that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations that are called by my […]
THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF HISTORY by John McIntyre Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1957 (118 pp.) As a theologian Dr. McIntyre is concerned with a philosophy of history that is both consistent with and expressive of the idea of the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ. He seeks for a doctrine of history “which is in […]