All Ye That Labor: An Essay On Christianity, Communism, and the Problem of Evil. (Eerdman’s Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, 1956, 128 pp.) According to the publisher’s introduction this is the first of a series of books to be published under the general title Pathway Books. One of the aims of this undertaking is, in the […]
Letter to the Editor TORCH AND TRUMPET DEAR SIRS: While we are in agreement with the witness which Torch and Trumpet gives for orthodox Christianity in its best form, Calvinism, we sometimes find ourselves a little uneasy about statements appearing in the magazine. The February–March issue contained a number of these. Perhaps we have misinterpreted them. But we […]
IV (Final Installment) As we have seen in our preview article, every non-Christian philosophy and religion has its own god, its own explanation of sin, and its own theory of redemption. From this point of view no communist has a right to claim originality. With regard to the communistic conception of God, we saw that Marx and […]
III In our last article we sketched briefly how during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the deformation of the Reformed churches together with the increasing influence of mysticism and modernism, and the resulting revolutionary political and economical ideas culminated in the French Revolution. We also saw haw after this revolt a general reaction set in, due […]
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 […]
The American Approach The paradox of our day is the so-called cold war, which despite it professed coldness gets pretty hot at times, at least here at home. The communist aggressor from outside tries to infiltrate our “cradle of democracy” in order to overthrow our beloved “American way of life,” and to subvert its basic ideas. Radio commentators […]