Jehoshaphat was a great reformer-king whose dedication to the Lord’s service brought peace and prosperity to his people, but his weakness and what proved to be fatal mistake was his broad “ecumenical” sympathy which prompted him to make common cause with Israel’s Ahab and Jezebel, to the ruin of his family and people. God’s prophet […]

In the death of J .G. Vos on June 8, the Lord has taken from among us one of the truly great Reformed leaders of our time. His death , at the age of 80, passed almost unnoticed outside of his immediate circle. (We first learned of it on the arrival of the August Banner […]

  Heresy in the Marriage Form? A Heresy Charge The July 18, 1983 Banner features a special article by Dr. Louis A. Vos, professor of religion and theology at Calvin College, charging that the Christian Reformed churches’ traditional marriage form (which is still permitted and widely used in the churches) teaches “heresy.” One is a […]

A Proposed Guide The May 1983, Reformed Journal featured an article entitled “Barth as Paradigm.” It was a review of a book judged to be extraordinarily significant especially to American evangelicals, Bernard Ramm’s After Fundamentalism: The Future of Evangelical Theology. The gist of the book (and its review) was a eulogy of especially Karl Barth’s […]

We hear the claim that predestination is a doctrine that “can’t be preached.” The foolishness of such talk was resoundingly evident at the large Sunday morning service at the end of the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology in Toronto on April 17. I do not remember ever attending a more profoundly moving church service. The […]

The “Philadelphia Conferences” A phenomenon that deserves the attention of everyone who is interested in the promotion of the Reformed faith is the remarkable development of the “Philadelphia Conferences on Reformed Theology.” Beginning in Philadelphia ten years ago in the Tenth Presbyterian Church of Dr. James M. Boice, they have spread to four other places […]

COLLECTED WRITINGS OF JOHN MURRAY Volume one, The Claims of Truth, 1977 Volume two, Select Lectures in Systematic Theology, 1978 Volume three, Life of John Murray, Sermons and Reviews, 1983. Published by The Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The labors of some men come to be more widely appreciated after their […]

All who hold offices in the Christian Reformed Churches will be receiving copies of a 515 page book prepared to acquaint them and especially their 160 representatives with matters that will have to be discussed and decided at the June meetings of the denominational synod. As usual, the OUTLOOK attempts to provide a review of […]

The other day I attended a seminar for clergy sponsored by the Religious Department of the University of Lethbridge and an agency (of supporting clergy) called Inter-Faith. It’s not often that I attend such gatherings, for more often than not, they are a waste of time. But this one looked interesting, having as the overall […]

  EARTHQUAKES AS “SIGNS” Among the “signs” which our Lord mentioned as signaling His approaching return were “earthquakes, in diverse places” (Matt. 24:7). An article in the January, 1983, issue of Getrouw by Alexander Seibel on “The Background of Terrorism Illuminated from the Bible” calls attention to these signs mentioning especially the increasing frequency and intensity […]