THE GOSPEL OF LUKE by William Hendriksen; 1122 pages, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Mich.; $13.98. Reviewed by John Vander Ploeg. A commentator of the caliber of William Hendriksen comes along not once in a generation but more likely only once in a century. Just scanning, and here and there dipping into, The Gospel of […]
GRACE UNLIMITED. Edited by Clark H. Pinnock. Bethany Fellowship, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1975, 264 pp., $4.95, paper. Reviewed by Rev. Johan D. Tangelder. This symposium was written explictly against Calvinism. Each essay supports one variety or another of the Wesley-Arminian tradition. The contributors are Clark Pinnock who wrote the Introduction and “Responsible Freedom and the […]
The objections conccrn deviations from the Reformed position. These objections will be stated first; then, in each case, my answer. Objection No. 1 Since we know that in the process of copying and/or translating the autographa (= originals) errors were made, we can no longer speak of an “infallible” Bible. Answer Nonsense! Whatever the holy […]
Cahiers voor de gemeente, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4. Kampen: J.H. Kok, 1967, 1968. No. 1: J.L. Koole: Verhaal en feit in het Oude Testament. 67. f. 4,25. No. 2: Tj. Baarda: De betrouwbaarheid van de Evangelien, 92. f. 5, 25. No. 3: G.P. Harvelt: Over Schrift en inspiratie. 74. f. 5,25. No. 4: […]
A VARIED HARVEST, by Frank E. Gaebelein. W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.; 1967. Cloth. 198 pp. (Price $4.95). This book is a collection of essays by a well-known author who for years was the headmaster of Stony Brook School and afterwards became co-editor of Christianity Today. His essays give evidence of a […]
THE WORLD OF MISSION by Bengt Sundkler (translated from Swedish by Eric J. Sharpe), Eerdmans, 1965. 307 pages. Price $6.95. This is an historical survey of missions that tries to stress especially the environment in which mission work has been carried on. In Part One the author discusses the Kingship of Christ as proclaimed by Christian […]
CREATIVE MINDS IN CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY, edited by Philip Edgcumbe Hughes. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. $6.95. Philip Edgcumbe Hughes, the well-known editor of the (Anglican) Churchman, has greatly obligated us by the edition of this guidebook which surprises us again and again by the wealth of its material, its concise synopses of […]
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament Gerhard Killel (editor). Translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley from the German. Vol. I, xi + 793 pages. Published by Wm. B. Eerdman, Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., and London. Price $18.50. The reviewer has purchased this important work from the time when the first German volume appeared. For accurate […]
Read More Than Conquerors, pp. 242–250 A. THE SYMBOL Try to see it as John saw it in the vision. There is, first of all, the city itself (Rev. 21:10, 16, 18). It is a perfect cube, stretching away as far as John is able to see. It measures the distance from Maine to Florida […]
Read More Than Conquerors, pp. 251–256 A. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE SECTION There is in this section little that bas not been said before. It is, nevertheless, a most important section. It lays particular stress upon the urgency of all the preceding admonitions, the absolute necessity of heeding them, and this all the more since whatever […]