“The influence which emanates from all these (non-Christian) organizations is thus without exception destructive for our Christian confession…In such anarchistic, socialistic or neutral associations a spirit is operative which never can or may be ours…Thus our principle settles down at the point of non-activity, loses its position of influence and is pressed into the corner…” These […]
(What is the significance of Dr. Abraham Kuyper for the “problem of the relation of the Church to the world of culture”? Dr. Runner sets himself to describe Kuyper’s contribution in the concrete context of considerable difference of opinion in today’s Reformed community.) This default on the part of the Calvinists of the Reformation period with […]
(In our April 1955 issue Dr. Runner began his historical survey of this subject. The April installment began with a review of the thinking of “the second-century Apologists…the anti-gnostic Fathers and…the Fathers of the fourth and fifth centuries.” Dr. Runner concluded this phase of his discussion in the previous issue. Here our esteemed author turns […]
“Basil (9) considers that all was not tainted from the moral point of view in even this profane literature so much decried at the time; that the poets, orators and historians knew how to give praise to what is good and that they provide an abundance of precepts and examples capable of bringing an ennobling […]
It is noteworthy that, while the problem of the relation of the Church to the world of culture has tormented Christians unremittingly through all the Christian centuries, it has yet taken the Church such a long time to develop a theoretical account of that relation. The practical necessity of relating herself to the world ‘round about […]
On the question as to the necessity in our land and time, of separate Christian organizations rather profoundly different views are currently being propagated in Christian Reformed circles. There has been, it is true, a variety of emphases. Some plead for the organization of Christian pressure groups within existing American organizations; some have urged that the Christian confessor bear his […]
MR. CHAIRMAN, MEN OF THE GRAND RAPIDS LEAGUE OF REFORMED MEN’S SOCIETIES, GUESTS AND FRIENDS, This is a truly imposing sight, this mighty gathering of men we have here this evening in this Grandville Ave. Christian Reformed Church. Men confessing the Christ of God to be the Savior of their hearts and Sovereign of their […]
May 23, 1953 Dear Mr. Runner: In your article, “Het Roer Om,” appearing in the April-May 1953, issue of the Torch and Trumpet you condemn fellow Christians for taking an active part in the Citizens Action organization. Also you state in this same article, “We must exercise our influence upon the development of this huge […]
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: We are come together here this evening in order to inaugurate this newly established organization in the presence of God. When they to whom the preparation of this meeting was entrusted invited me to address a few words to you, I did not hesitate for a moment to accede to […]