The Synod of the Christian Reformed Church, June 10 to 20, 1975. will consider a report on Women in Ecclesiastical Office. One of the “guidelines” recommended for adoption is the following significant statement: “Biblical teaching is not opposed in principle to the ordination of women to any office that men may hold in the church” (1975 Agenda […]
Anyone at all familiar with recent developments in the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod—knows at least something about the ongoing and intense conflict in that large church concerning divergent views on the Bible. As managing editor of THE OUTLOOK, T was permitted to sit in at a Theological Convocation held at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, […]
“He that flndeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.” Matthew 10:39 Most things in life are difficult to hold on to. We live in a world of tough competition, and the generally accepted way to be successful is not by giving things away or by […]
The Agenda for the coming CRC Synod differs from others of recent years in containing no long reports, and therefore is somewhat shorter than others have been (although 478 pages is “short” only when compared with the 600+ issue of 1973). A hasty survey, at the editor‘s request, provokes the following observations. REGULAR REPORTS – A […]
Dr. Leonard Greenway, pastor of the Riverside Christian Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan is in charge of Our Question Box. Questions from all ages are welcome. No signatures are required and no names will be published. From a reader in Ontario, Canada: Question: What is it to be born again? . . . Must […]
The 1975 CRC Synod will be asked to adopt a new translation of the Heidelberg Catechism. It is to this matter that Rev. Harry Downs addresses himself in this article. Rev. Downs is pastor of the Christian Reformed Church in Dresden, Ontario. I regret that, at the time which I had to complete this article in […]
Among the more important matters calling for the attention of and action by this year’s CRC Synod is the appointment of a successor to Dr. William Spoelhof to serve as the next president of Calvin College. Although its impressive growth and other circumstances make it increasingly difficult today to still speak as intimately as formerly […]
Dr. Harold Lindsell, editor of Christianity Today, makes a most important observation in his recent editorial in the April 11 issue, “Who Is Right in the Missouri Synod Dispute?” The context is the article by Dr. John Tietjen, former president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. As most observers of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church know, […]
“GOD HAS HIS WISE REASON FOR DENYING THE OFFICES TO WOMEN.” Dear Editor, As was mentioned in Rev. Vander Kam‘s article, “Women in Ecclesiastical Office?” in the March issue of THE OUTLOOK, the number of articles written on this subject is legion. However, I believe that there is one perspective that has not been given […]
TO BE AS GOD, by Dr. Bolton Davidheiser, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., Box 185, Nutley, New Jersey, 41 pages, $1.00. Reviewed by Rev. Frank De Jong, San Jose, California. The introduction to this little book, written by Rousas John Rushdoony, gives in a nutshell what the message is all about. He writes, “The spirit of this […]