LET’S MATCH CALVINISTS AND ROMANISTS! A round table discussion of Calvinistic ministers and Roman Catholic priests—now there’s a thought. I have just finished reading The II Vatican Council and the new Catholicism by Berkouwcr. The author, quite characteristically I think, makes too many concessions to the enemy hut nevertheless spells out the general concensus that a fresh […]
THE FREE AND DR. KING On October 20, 1965, the Free University granted an honorary degree to Martin Luther King. In doing so, it departed radically from its tradition of giving honorary degrees only to men who have made a definite contribution to the Calvinistic community or to internationally distinguished Calvinistic scholars. It is good for […]
I RESPECTFULLY DECLINE TO ANSWER… The man who likely has heard these words more often than anyone else is Senator McLellan, the watchdog of the u.s. Senate on graft, corruption and racketeering. Call to mind Billy Sol Estes, now behind bars, and Bobby Baker, still strutting about the town of Washington as the paragon of virtue. […]
THE PRIMACY OF SECULAR EFFECTS In the current church-state debate regarding education an important doctrine is evolving. It could be called the doctrine of the primacy of secular effects. Much government aid is being given to Christian colleges and universities in the form of scholarships, tuition grants, research grants, and grants for the construction of classrooms, […]
“THICK LAYERS OF FOG…” The Christmas season has done it again! In another denominational paper an attack on the biblical doctrine of the Virgin Birth has been published. Subtly but surely the article was like an invitation to countless termites to come into the very foundation of the faith. Developing his argument, the author contends that in […]
The Bible and Archaeology J.A. THOMPSON Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI, 1962, 438 pp., $5.95. Of the many publications in the general area of archaeology and the Bible this is one of the better. It is a revised edition of a single-volume version of three earlier works on Biblical archaeology issued by […]
Once on a visit to our nation’s capital I had the privilege of sitting in on a session of our Supreme Court. If ever you have the opportunity, don’t miss it. It does something to you. The building which houses it is constructed of solid granite, symbolic of what this Court is supposed to be to […]
Barnes’ Notes on the New Testament Edited by INGRAM COSBIN I Volume (complete and unabridged). 1763 pages, published by Kregel, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Price $14.95. Barnes has long been for many Bible students a standby and a standard. Through the years (almost a century), it has been found on family bookshelves, in pastors’ libraries, church […]
The Words and Wonders of the Cross by GORDON GIROD Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, 1962, 154 pages, $2.50. The author of this book is pastor of Seventh Reformed Church in Grand Rapids. He is without a doubt one of the most prominent pulpiteers in this city and in the Reformed Church of America. Reverend […]
Thoughts multiplied within me as I stood in line recently to view the remains of the Reverend Henry J. Kuiper. One of them which will not down is the impression that with the passing of this man and others of his generation we arc witnessing the end of an era in the history of the Christian […]