III “The healthy personality actualizes himself within and in effective rapport with the framework of reality as God has ordered it.” That is the general definition of a healthy personality that we gave in our previous article in this series (August–September, 1952 issue). It was further stated that the mentally ill person is one who “in […]
II In our first contribution we tried to dispose of some common fallacies and prejudices with regard to our subject. The purpose of this second article is to sketch in brief the historical background of communism and the many influences that molded its founders, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. For a proper understanding of these influences we […]
“Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? And am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred; They are become mine enemies” (Psalm 139:21 ,22). The imprecatory passages in Holy Scripture, such as the one above taken from Psalm 139, seem to raise questions in the […]
We herewith present our first article of several in which various points of view on the matter of Common Grace a re given. Since Dr. W.H. Rutgers held the chair of Systematic Theology at Calvin Seminary for a number of years and since he had made some special study of the subject, we asked him to […]
“Lord teach me to pray.” – Luke 11:1 Christ teaches us to pray by his Word and by his Holy Spirit, working together. Not by the Word without the Spirit, and not by the Spirit apart from the Word, but by the two together—by the Holy Spirit’s use and application of the Word. Christ’s Word, of […]
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich. II Corinthians 8:9 These words are part of an appeal made by the apostle Paul to the Corinthians for financial aid to the poverty stricken mother church […]
(Part Four) This time we would begin with an apology and a request. Our original intention was to write a brief article or two pointing up some of the more important aspects of the challenge which Christian missions face in our modern world. Soon it became evident that unless we spent some time dealing more […]
IN the Westminster Confession we find the following concerning perseverance: “They whom God hath accepted in his Beloved, effectually called and sanctified by his Spirit, can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace; but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternal!y saved (XVII, i:). There are some who […]
William F. Buckley, Jr.: GOD AND MAN AT YALE. THE SUPERSTITIONS OF ‘ACADEMIC FREEDOM.’ Chicago: Henry Renery Company. 1951. The chief sin of the author, says John Chamberlain in the introduction, is that he holds “certain truths to be self-evident: that the free economy is better for both the individual and the group than the […]
New International Reformed Commentary F.W. Grosheide: COMMENTARY ONTHE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 1953. 415 pp.$5.00 H.N. Ridderbos: THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE CHURCHES OF GALATIA. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 1953. 238 pp. $3.50. The first volume of “The New International Commentary on the […]