In the CRC discussions concerning the Verhey case a strong point was made of Dr. Verhey’s “honesty.” He frankly avowed some of his deviant views when he might have remained silent or sidestepped acknowledging them. (The same observation could be made regarding his dealings with the consistories and classis in t his matter.) After t […]
GETROUW, the Dutch monthly publication of the International Council of Christian Churches, in its first issue of 1979 featured J. Boelema’s extended summary of an important speech of Dr. A. Troost under the above title. A number of Dr. Troost’s sharp observations are as applicable to our situation as they are to that on the European […]
Young People’s Bible Camp The Reformed Fellowship gladly calls attention to some of the activities of its Canadian affiliate. The first is a Young People’s Bible Camp, Monday through Friday noon, August 27–31, 1979, at the Cedar Glen Conference Grounds at Bolton (near Toronto), Ontario. The subject of the conference is to be “God’s Word, […]
The meeting of our churches’ representatives in their annual June Synod is a significant event which the Outlook usually makes a special effort to cover. I have been asked to make a preliminary survey of the agenda for that meeting. The 568 pages of material may be looked at from various points of view. The […]
A Recurring Question A half year ago in our September issue (p. 14) I observed that developments within our denomination are compelling a lot of loyal church members to face the question whether they should remain in it or become part of a Bible–believing, confessionally Reformed church outside of it. The decision last year to […]
Old and New Books I was recently asked to make a critical comparison of an older and a newer series of textbooks to be used for teaching Bible in the Christian schools. Some of the observations in that study may interest many Christian parents as well as a few board members who must decide which […]
A HOLE IN THE DIKE, Critical Aspects of Berkouwer’s Theology, by Carl Bogue. Mack Publishing Co., Cherry Hill, N.J., 27 pp., 1977, paper, $ .95. A HALF CENTURY OF THEOLOGY, by G.C. Berkouwer, William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 268 pp. 1977, paper, $9.95. THE NEW SYNTHESIS THEOLOGY OF THE NETHERLANDS, by Cornelius Van Til, Presbyterian […]
The title of this article is the title of a new book by John C. Vander Stelt with the sub-title, A Study in Old Princeton and Westminster Theology. It is his doctoral thesis for the Free University at Amsterdam in the Netherlands and is published by Mack Publishing Co., Marlton, New Jersey. Dr. Vander Stelt […]
One of the more interesting activities of the Reformed Fellowship over more than a quarter of a century has been the annual meeting. This is one occasion on which the “fellowship,” necessarily limited as the organization grew from a local group to a body of many hundreds spreading across and beyond the limits of two […]
A Unique Meeting Extraordinary interest and possibly far-reaching influence characterized the unique meeting October 26–28 at Chicago of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy. Meeting at the Hyatt Regencv O’Hare were 284 men including some of the most widely known leaders in .the evangelical church world from a dozen countries, some as far away as […]