THE PRIMACY OF SECULAR EFFECTS In the current church-state debate regarding education an important doctrine is evolving. It could be called the doctrine of the primacy of secular effects. Much government aid is being given to Christian colleges and universities in the form of scholarships, tuition grants, research grants, and grants for the construction of classrooms, […]
It goes without saying that these comments do not purport to be anything like an exhaustive study of the Agenda of the synod of the Christian Reformed Church scheduled for June of this year. All that is intended is the making of a preliminary appraisal of a select number of the salient features of the […]
What is the theological picture today within the Korean Presbyterian Church? To those who take any active reading or praying interest in such a question, the answer will probably be, “Why, it is thoroughly conservative!” That opinion has likely come from the flood of literature and press releases which followed in the wake of the 1959 […]
Aggiornamento is Italian for “up-dating” and is the key word in today’s Roman Catholic circles. In the last five years dramatic changes have been taking place—so dramatic that a decade ago they were not considered possible. How fundamental has this change been? Is it central or peripheral? Aggiornamento is associated chiefly with John XXIII (pope from 1958–1963) […]
It is not my purpose in these studies to deal with all the biblical evidence in support of the doctrine of definite or limited atonement. But there are some passages that are particularly relevant to the differentiations that have been propounded earlier and also show how the expiatory death of Christ is restricted to those who are […]
The first decade of Reformed Theological training in Australasia is history. This has been a time of unexpected developments. In 1955 two pastors and three students gathered in a small Sunday school hall. This was the beginning. There were no suitable physical facilities; there was no library. There were doubts in the minds of various small […]
DR HENRY RESPONDS TO MR. ZYLSTRA Mr. Zylstra does me the honor of a serious and lengthy appraisal of my book, and I appreciate the fact that he has much to commend. Four lectures, appropriately designated Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, must necessarily leave gaps in the defining of positions, although I am persuaded that […]
As our readers quite without exception know by this time, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands are engaged in extensive discussions on the legitimacy and propriety of affiliating themselves as confessional church with the World Council of Churches. The arguments for and against such affiliation are being pursued at great length. It is to be […]
Dear John: You want my views about the subject now under discussion in our beloved TORCH AND TRUMPET? I have tried to outline a few of them in this letter. Whether I have succeeded in sketching, so to say, my bargaining position in such a cramped space is a question you will have to answer. For […]
In 1964 the Synod of the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands declared that there is “no sufficient hindrance for the Reformed Churches to join the W.C.C.” At the same time Synod decided as yet not to proceed to affiliation, because there is still much disagreement on this point in the churches themselves. It called the churches […]