BIBLICAL CRITICISM AT CALVIN Dear Editor: Lately, quite a bit of attention in The Outlook has been given to what is being taught at Calvin College. Since I have recently taken a course there that dealt with the women-in-church office issue that disturbed me somewhat, and was representative of the other religion and theology classes […]
PUNT’S “BIBLICAL UNIVERSALISM” Dear Editor: I greatly appreciate the fairness and accuracy with which the Rev. John Vander Ploeg presented the premise of my book in his article “Punt’s ‘Biblical Universalism’” (Feb. ’81). The most important question, however, is whether my exegesis of the so-called “universalistic” texts is biblically accurate. The article says nothing about […]
Personal “Application” In Christian Home and School (March, 1979) Dr. Wolterstorff, professor of philosophy at Calvin College, notes that some students of our Christian schools do not appreciate the school that taught them, that they even feel resentment against these schools. He holds that to prevent this, the kingship of Christ and its implications should […]
In his Epistle to the Romans, the Apostle Paul made an in–depth study of man‘s relation to God and His law. Not by his own righteousness can man meet God‘s demands. It is only by the God-given righteousness of faith that a confrontation with God is safe for man. He is saved, renewed, through Christ, […]
To highlight this review is in keeping with the Thanksgiving Day season. The publication under review is A Symposium on Creation by Henry M. Morris and others. Publisher is Baker Book House (156 pp., $1.95). Reviewer is Rev. Paul De Koekkoek (emeritus) of Seattle, Washington. Recent reading of the four volumes of A Symposium on […]