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The 1973 CRC Synod received a report on “Women in Ecclesiastical Office” together  with a recommendation from all but one of  the committee that Synod adopt the following: “The practice of excluding women from  ecclesiastical office cannot conclusively be  defended on Biblical grounds.” Instead of adopting the above recommendation, Synod decided: 1. To refer the entire […]

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In the “conversation” between Dr. Marcus Barth, son of the world-renowned Karl Barth of Basel and member of the theological faculty of the University of Chicago, and Dr. Fred H. Klooster, professor of systematic theology at Calvin Seminary. held Feb. 8, 1963 at the Plymouth Heights Church in Grand Rapids, Dr. Barth referred to the so-called imprecatory […]

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