The words “an accursed idolatry” are familiar to Christians of Reformed persuasion. They are heard each time the eightieth question and answer of the Heidelberg Catechism is read reminding us of the great error propagated in the Roman Mass. To this error we traditionally turn our attention at this time of the year when we commemorate […]
Last week a Calvin seminary student was teaching a catechetical class in a Grand Rapids church on the authority and accuracy of the Holy Scriptures. During the explanation one of the catechumens, a lad about nine years of age, raised his hand and upon given permission to speak announced that the Bible contained errors. Surprised, […]
Hallelujah Jehovah! Sing for Jehovah a new song! In (your) congregation of faithful believers, sing about God’s glory! Let God’s people enjoy themselves with their Creator; Let the sons of Zion exult before their King! They should hallelujah Jehovah’s name with dancing. They should serenade the Lord with harp and kettle drums, For Jehovah likes watching his […]
Rene de Visme Williamson, Independence and Involvement: A Christian Reorientation in Political Science. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UniverSity Press, 1964, $7.50 The 1964 Presidential Election divided the Christian community along partisan principles as never before. It was, therefore, significant that during the same year Rene de Visme Williamson should make a truly Christian contribution to […]
INQUIRY WITH RESPONSIBILITY Very likely many have pondered the article of Dr. Henry Stob in the May-June Reformed Journal (p. 5), where he writes about the propositions set forth by the “Dekker” study committee. In effect he warns that Synod should not proclaim the committee’s propositions as “‘dogmas’ to be honored by all who are charged to think Christianly […]
Reformed theology has historically been known for its keen interest in the doctrine of God’s covenant with man. It was the Reformed theologians, more than e.g. the Lutherans or the Roman Catholics, which developed this doctrine on the basis of the Biblical givens. Hence one cannot understand the Reformed faith or lay claim to being Reformed […]
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.” – I […]
LESSON SIX Part I Art. 6. ELECTION IS A SOVEREIGN DECREE A. Two-fold activity of the sovereign decree l. God’s grace softens the elect and inclines to faith. It was God’s good pleasure to choose some human beings unto salvation. No man takes the initiative in seeking God, but God graciously seeks those whom he […]
A Theological lnterpretation of Ameritan History (Rousas J. Rushdoony, Editor) by C. GREGG SINGER, International Library of Philosophy and Theology, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1964. Dr. Singer, chairman of the History Department of Catawba College, Salisbury, North Carolina, has written this book out of the “conviction that ideas in general do have consequences […]