Rousas J. Rushdoony: THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE SOCIAL ORDER, 232 p. Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co. Today we are told that the historic Christian faith as formulated by the councils in the official creeds is irrelevant to the needs of modern man. Because of the change in man’s circumstances and understanding a new approach is […]
Throughout the world mankind experiences tension and trouble in these times. Daily this seems aggravated by the undeniably rapid and revolutionary changes operative in a society characterized by suspicion, misunderstanding and avowed hostility. In this situation the church of our Lord Jesus Christ does not walk unscathed. It is constituted of sinners who profess to […]
H. C. Leupold: EXPOSITION OF ISAIAH, Vol. I, 598 pp. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1968. All the commentaries of Leupold, well-known professor and authority on the Old Testament are familiar to pastors, teachers and Bible study groups in this country. Now in addition to materials on Genesis, the Psalms and a few of the […]
We stand face to face with a new decade. During the sixties radical changes confronted and challenged not only mankind in general but the Christian churches. A new theology and a new morality have swept across the land, leaving not even the smallest and most isolated congregation completely untouched. And believers, who are called to […]
The occasion for these comments will be more than obvious to almost all of the readers of this magazine, especially to those who belong to the Christian Reformed Church. Large quantities of the New Bulletin for September 1969 of the “Association of Christian Reformed Laymen” have been mailed to many homes within recent days. And […]
PART I: Gordon H. Girod PART II: Peter Y. De Jong PART III: John H. Piersma Rev. Gordon H. Girod, well known pastor of the Seventh Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was originally asked to describe and evaluate the fact of the failure of the merger proposal involving his denomination and the Presbyterian Church […]
Klaas Runia: REFORMATION TODAY, 147 pp. London: Banner of Truth Publishing Trust, 1968. All who have read Runia’s excellent treatise I believe in God…will eagerly welcome this book which deals with the challenging issue of being living members of a living church in our day. In eight chapters he discusses the rise of heresy which […]
Willlam Hendriksen: NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY; EXPOSITION OF GALATIANS, 260 p. Baker Book House, 1968. Price $6.95. Once again om bookshelves are enriched by a fine commentary by Dr. Hendriksen, well-known both within and outside of the Reformed community as an excellent Bible scholar. This volume follows the pattern adopted by him in his earlier commentaries. […]
J. L. Koole, HAGGAI, 105 p. Kampen: J. H. Kok, 1967. A volume similar in approach and format to the excellent commentary of Ridderbos on the pastoral epistles is this one by Dr. Koole. Haggai is a short prophecy, but not unimportant. Several issues concerning its date, composition and purpose have been heatedly discussed. Koole […]
Herman Ridderbos: PASTORALE BRIEVEN, 307 pp. Kampen: J. H. Kok, 1967. Ridderbos is always worthy of careful and concentrated reading. What Berkouwer has become in these days for Reformed dogmatics, Ridderbos is for New Testament studies. We rejoice, therefore, that the wish expressed last year with the appearance of his excellent volume on Paulus has […]