For many years there has been a relatively close relationship between the OPC (Orthodox Presbyterian Church) and the CRC (Christian Reformed Church). For thirteen years a special committee of the two denominations has even been laboring to achieve the goal of union between them. Since the last Christian Reformed Synod dismissed its committee for such […]
“For this cause also thank we God without ceasing. because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is ill truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe” (I Thess. 2:13). Can’t We Quit […]
“And . . . Caiaphas . . . said . . . it is expedient for us . . .” (John 11:50). That is the way the high priest who was the head of the Jewish council or Sanhedrin expressed and gave direction to the deliberations of that religious court. It is true that John […]
The Southern Baptist Convention, numbering almost twelve million members, is the largest Protestant denomination in North America. Until recent times it has had the reputation of being one of the most orthodox of the larger church bodies. Evangelical Christians everywhere may well note with regret the ominous direction the denomination is now taking by a […]
To our Reformed churches in their present discussions about the authority of the Bible it should be interesting to observe similar controversies in other circles. The big Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is being torn by one of them. This traditionally evangelical denomination has a remarkable history. Gaustad’s Historical Atlas of Religion in America summarizes it in […]
An old friend who was interested in young people’s work observed that some new methods are being adopted in the lay-out of our teaching materials. Instead of the older, more “deductive” type of material which just presented what was to be learned, only too often to meet with an indifferent, “couldn’t-care-less” response, we arc now […]
“Heresy” is a word that has gone out of fashion. Most churches in our time have all but dropped it from their vocabulary. In our churches too the term is rarely used unless to refer to an occasional ‘“heresy-hunter” who threatens to disturb the routine course of church machinery. In contrast with this current view, […]
A conference of more than ordinary interest, especially in this time of much discussion about the Bible, took place at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois on January 21 and 22, 1972. Dr. Paul Schrotenboer, Secretary of the Reformed Ecumenical Synod, and Professor Norman Shepherd (Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. Pa.) in their writings in […]
A new book Jerusalem and Athens, contains a number of essays, all dedicated to Dr. Cornelius Van Til on his seventy-fifth birthday and fortieth anniversary as professor at Westminster Seminary. The contributions of such influential writers as Berkouwer, Dooyeweerd, Ridderbos, Packer, and Montgomery together with Dr. Van Til’s responses to them make tins a book […]
The question in the title is prompted by a statement of the Editor in The Banner of October 8 that “Loyalty to the Reformed tradition does not justify withdrawal from a denomination; it forbids it.” This statement appears in an editorial sharply condemning the action of four conservative organizations in the Southern Presbyterian Church, who, […]