At this time of the year we again review the newly published Agenda (“things to be done”) for the June Synod of the Christian Reformed churches. Such a survey may interest members of church consistories who get (but few of whom may read) the 472 page book, as well as other of our church members […]
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 […]
It is commonly assumed and sometimes expressly claimed that today’s “higher” criticism of the Bible is really a new problem—the results of revolutionary scientific discoveries in our time. A little indepth acquaintance with the history of the Christian church in any of a number of periods in its past plainly reveals the error of that […]
A Reader’s Question From one of our California readers we have received the following letter: Dear Editor of the Outlook, I would like to see you write an editorial in the Outlook on the following: Are we who are members of the Christian Reformed Denomination responsible for the decisions of Synod? I have in mind […]
The Current Confusion A development which perplexes many Christians in our time is the multitude of English translations of the Bible which are appearing on the market. That this puzzles many of our readers is apparent in several letters sent to THE OUTLOOK. Some time ago I sent some of them to Dr. Edwin Palmer, […]
“And Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of […]
The annual meeting of the Reformed Fellowship was held Sept. 25, 1980, at the Kellogsville Christian Reformed Church and Christian school. This is one of the few opportunities for a number of our widely scattered “Fellowship” to meet in larger than local gatherings. Featured in this year’s program as speakers were Professor Norman De Jong […]
Among the significant books recently being published by the Banner of Truth Trust in Scotland is The Diary of Kenneth A. MacRae – A record of fifty years in the Christian Ministry. The over 500 page book is a selection from the diaries of a Scotch Presbyterian minister from 1912 to 1963 edited by Rev. […]
The question may come as a surprise, but it is being seriously raised by the Christian Reformed Churches’ Belgic Confession Translation Committee which in its 1979 Report alleged that the Reformed Churches have for over 400 years been holding as their official confession a wrong and inferior version of that creed. Faced with the assignment […]
Among the issues about which there is increasing confusion and division in our churches, one concerns educa tion. In this case also let’s try to see the situation more clearly by considering side-by–side (1) the historic, Biblical Reformed view and (2) the emerging, changing, broadening view held by an increasing number in our churches. (1) […]