Following is a digest of the decisions of Synod 1971. Meetings began on Tuesday morning, June 8, and continued until almost midnight on Friday, June 18. THE OUTLOOK appreciates the kindness of Leonard T. Schalkwyk, pastor of the Christian Reformed Church of St. Thomas, Ontario, and a synodical delegate from Classis Chatham, in preparing this […]
In the January 1971 issue of Outlook, Rev. Peter De Jong wrote an article entitled, The Inroads of Subjectivism. In this article Rev. De Jong accuses De Graaff, Schrotenboer, and others who are vitally connected with the AACS [Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship] of subjectivism. Rev. De Jong correctly defines a subjectivist as […]
That the high regard of a bygone day for the authority of Scripture is on skids in our time, especially in educated circles, should be painfully obvious to anyone who has his ear to the ground. Take note, for example, of the following taken from Christian News, June 21, 1971: “A poll taken by National […]
Elsewhere in this issue the reader will find an extensive and obviously expert review by Dr. Aaldert Mennega of an exciting and most welcome publication, Biology. A Search for Order in Complexity, “designed for use as a textbook for high school biology” This well-written and discerning review is definitely deserving of the special attention of […]
A spirit of joyous fellowship and serious purpose marked the 45th annual Evangelism Conference of the Christian Reformed Churches held the second week in May in Green Lake, Wisconsin. Bible study sessions were conducted each morning by Dr. P. Y. De Jong, pastor of the First Christian Reformed Church of Sioux Center, Iowa, who spoke […]
Simon Kistemaker was born The Netherlands, came to Canada in 1948, graduated from Calvin College in 1954 and from Calvin Seminary in 1957. After one year of teaching Classical Languages at Calvin College, he went to the Free University of Amsterdam where he received the Th.D. degree in the are of the New Testament in […]
TAKES ISSUE WITH “TIV CHURCH AND WHITE PATERNALISM” ARTICLE EUGENE RUBINGH Dr. Stephen Monsma’s article, The Tiv Church of Christ and White Paternalism, is a significant contribution but I believe it needs some correction. The correction is not, in my opinion, with regard to the viability of the Reformed seminary sponsored by the Tiv Church. […]
THE BIBLE, NATURAL SCIENCE, AND EVOLUTION, by Russell W. Maatman. Reformed Fellowship, Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49510. 1970, pp. 165, paperback, $3.50. Reviewed by Professor Johannes G. Vos, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. The author is professor of chemistry and chairman of the division of natural science at Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa. In what […]
For the Christian Biology teacher it is very difficult to choose a textbook for his classes for the simple reason that no textbook has been available which presents the scientific data from a Christian perspective. It appears that in the past the best one could do was to pick the least dogmatically evolutionistic textbook, and […]
The “Age of Aquarius” is also rapidly becoming known as the “Age of Charisma”—that is, the age of renewed and revived interest in the total ministry of the Holy Spirit and a most welcome renewal of concern about the Spirit’s ministry in the church and in her members. And certainly the church in her present […]