The Reformed Faith is facing a critical point in its history. Within the church, liberalism on the one hand and fundamentalism on the other have made deep inroads. The results have been a loss of confidence in the trustworthiness of God’s Word because of hermeneutical maneuvering, or a reduction of the dynamic power of the […]
Dr. G. Aiken Taylor, after serving 24 years as editor of the Presbyterian Journal, is leaving that position to become president of Biblical Theological Seminary. The concerns and role of that journal since its beginning ten years before our paper began have in a number of ways been like those of the Outlook, and our […]
It is a disturbing fact in missionary history that what began as a sincere effort to go out and convert people of the world to believers in Christ has often eventually developed into a conversion of missionaries and their sending churches to paganism. That remarkable reversal should not altogether surprise us. The Lord had no […]
The term “prophetic” is sometimes used to indicate the church’s task and mission in the world. When used in its broad and general sense the term means to say that the church must be faithful in proclaiming the message of God to both church and world. It must do so concretely and without respect to persons […]
Transmitting False Signals J. Tuininga One can’t help but wonder sometimes what has happened to our biblical and Reformed sensitivities in the CRC, to our “Geref voelhorens” as our fathers used to say. What prompts me to say this on this occasion is the report on the recent assembly of the World Council of […]
SHOULD PASTORS BE COUNSELORS? Under the title: “The Shingle and The Manse” Mary Vander Goot, professor of psychology at Calvin College, answers this question in the negative in an article in The Reformed Journal for September, 1983. She begins by agreeing that in the broader use of the term counselling, pastors are called to […]
CHRISTIAN NEWS ENCYCLOPEDIA, edited by Herman Otten , Missourian Publishing Co., Washington, Missouri, 1982, 2 volumes, 1775 pp.; soft cover $24.95, plus $3.50 postage; hard cover $31.95, plus $4.00 postage. Order from Christian Encyclopedia, Box 168, New Haven, Missouri 63068. In his Anatomy of an Explosion, the definitive account of the remarkable return of the […]
DRIFT TOWARD UNBIBLICAL UNIVERSALISM (August, 1983) Letter To The Editor, Doctrinal erosion occurs, according to Dr. Theodore Plantinga, when one disregards or takes lightly the commitment they have to the creedal stand of the church. In Christian Renewal, he cites my book “Unconditional Good News,” as “a sign of such erosion.” He has done this […]