Disappearance of the Ministry? While degrees of change and variation are features of the life of the church throughout the centuries, there are, unmistakably, eras when the pace of change is quickened. Certain forms of church life, for instance, may remain basically the same over a long period of time; then, comparatively suddenly, new ideas […]

A Proposed Guide The May 1983, Reformed Journal featured an article entitled “Barth as Paradigm.” It was a review of a book judged to be extraordinarily significant especially to American evangelicals, Bernard Ramm’s After Fundamentalism: The Future of Evangelical Theology. The gist of the book (and its review) was a eulogy of especially Karl Barth’s […]

“So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, ‘Let me go for it is daybreak.’ But Jacob […]

  Nonsensical “Interpretation” J . Tuininga Synod of 83 decided with respect to the Gereformeerde Kerken in the Netherlands that pulpit fellow ship and intercommunion “no longer apply, except at the discretion of the local consistories.” That is, to my way of thinking, the very least synod could have done, and a step that was […]

The Drama of Christianity, An Interpretation of the Book of Revelation by S.L. Morris. Baker Book House. 147 pages. $4.95. Reviewed by John Vander Ploeg. There is a reason why many preachers shy away from preaching on Revelation, or otherwise do no more with it than have a few sermons on the letters to the […]