Norman Shepherd is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. His article is timely and significant in view of the recent decision by the 1973 Synod of the Christian Reformed Church on Homosexuality. The report of the Committee to Study Homosexuality submitted to the recent Synod of the Christian Reformed Church […]

Following is the second and final installment of an article by Professor Norman Shepherd, teacher of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. The Authority of the Written Word of God Before consideration of the authority of the Word of Cod, a word may be said with respect to the inerrancy of Scripture. To […]

Conceivably, strong exception will be taken to the title of this article as betraying a basic misunderstanding of the Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea. It can be argued that there is no such thing as a doctrine of Scripture in the Dooyeweerdian Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea. Doctrines of Scripture are the special province of […]

Editors, TORCH AND TRUMPET Gentlemen: Mr. Verno has built an unusual argument for cremation in preference to burial on the grounds that burial requires both an unwarranted expenditure of funds and an unnecessary occupation of real estate. However, he has omitted to deal with another consideration which ought to be decisive for the believer in […]

It is too bad that the books of the Old Testament in our English translations are not arranged in the same way that they are in the Hebrew Bible. If they were, the Old Testament would end with II Chronicles, and Matthew would begin where II Chronicles leaves off. II Chronicles ends with a devastating […]