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 […]

The most recent news from the Dutch church scene to make the headlines in the larger news media concerns Pope Paul’s appointment of chaplain Dr. Simonis as the new Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Rotterdam. Dr. Simonis is known to be a conservative. The rest of the Roman Catholic leadership in Holland has […]

The Synod of the Gereformeerde Kerken in The Netherlands (there are two denominations by this name in The Netherlands. The one here referred to is the church of which Professors Berkouwer, Kuitert, Hidderbos et al. are members) was faced with a crticial decision. The question was: What to do with the teachings of one of […]

Since the year 1880 there exists in The Netherlands an organization called “The Association for Scientific Education on Reformed Basis.” It is this organization which has been the sponsoring and directing agency behind the Free University of Amsterdam. This University never wanted to be a church school in the specific sense of that word. Nevertheless […]

Many impressions concerning the state of Protestant church life in Germany, received during a one year’s stay at the University of Hamburg, vie for supremacy. In the following lines an attempt will be made to sort out these impressions in order to present a picture of some of the more significant developments in German church […]

This is the second and last of a series of articles which seek to inform the reader about recent Dutch reactions to the writings of Dr. H. M. Kuitert, Professor of Systematic Theology at the Free University of Amsterdam. Professor Kuitert delivered a number of lectures before the Christian Reformed Ministers’ Institute in Grand Rapids […]