The year 1984 is an important date on the American church calendar. It marks the 200th anniversary of the formal organization of Methodism in North America. Methodism has been a very influential movement. Reformed piety has also undergone some of its influence. Another bicentennial celebrated this year marks the death of Ann Lee Stanley (1736–84), […]

A Wholesome Concern The concerns of Calvin Theological Seminary have been before the church in recent years more frequently than in the past. Only a few years ago there were several overtures before the Christian Reformed Synod to ensure the adherence of the Seminary professors to the teachings of both Bible and Creed. At the […]

The question concerning the membership of a Reformed denomination such as the Christian Reformed Church in the World Council of Churches has long had the present writer’s interest. From 1963 to 1968 he served as “convener” of a study committee of the Reformed Ecumenical Synod which was to investigate the question of membership in the […]

Neal Hegeman, now a Christian Reformed missionary in the Dominican Republic, while a student at Calvin Seminary protested against views of Genesis expressed by Professor John H. Stek. In our January Outlook he wrote about the disposition of that case. Dr. Marten H. Woudstra, Professor of Old Testament at the seminary now traces the history […]

The term “prophetic” is sometimes used to indicate the church’s task and mission in the world. When used in its broad and general sense the term means to say that the church must be faithful in proclaiming the message of God to both church and world. It must do so concretely and without respect to persons […]

At first sight the combination of the two elements in the title of this article may appear to be unlikely. As will be demonstrated, however, the link between the two is not as strange as it may seem. First a word about the Seventh-Day Adventists, their origins and present status. Adventist Origins The denomination arises […]

The acronym WARC is derived from the beginning letters of World Alliance of Reformed Churches. This is a world-wide organization of churches, both liberal and conservative, which trace their origins back to the Presbyterian and Reformed form of church organization. Several years ago it was reported the the Alliance also has members which have Lutheran, […]

Christian unity, as those who live by the gospels and the Reformed confessions know, is also church unity. Christians are duty bound to “join themselves to the true church” as the Belgic Confession states. John Calvin, though fighting the church of Rome with its claim to being the “mother church,” nevertheless kept speaking of the […]

Critics of the Bible have long alleged that the book of Genesis is composed of a number of diverse documents, some from a much later date, which do not really fit together. Various kinds of evidence can be cited against this critics’ theory. The October 91, 1981 Grand Rapids Press reported that “A five-year-long computer […]

A REVIEW ARTICLE BASED ON “WHICH VERSION NOW” BY BOB SHEEHAN, Carey Publications, 5 Fairford Close, Haywards Heath, Sussex RH16 3EF, England 32 pp. Price $2.25. Readers have sent in a number of letters about Bible translations. Some of them have been disturbed or convinced by claims that the King James Version is the only […]