MARKINGS ON A LONG JOURNEY WRITINGS OF JOHN J. TIMMERMAN; Rodney J . Mulder and John H. Timmerman, Editors; Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan: 300 pages, $9.95. Reviewed by John Vander Ploeg. Timmerman’s excellence in style, his magnanimous spirit that shines through, his knowledgeable comments in the field of literature, and his healthy Christian […]
THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA Illustrated. In Four Volumes. Volume Two: E-J. Fully Revised. 1175 pages, 1982. Eerdmans Publishing Co. $35.00. Reviewed by John Vander Ploeg. Its reputation being clearly established as a scholarly reference for well over three score years, The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) is definitely a must for the library of […]
Letters to Barbara: a Novel by Glenn Meeter. 263 pages, 1981. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. $12.95. Reviewed by John Vander Ploeg. Once again to spend a few hours in the town of Lansing (Illinois), to visit once more in the home of Glenn Meeter’s grandparents, and also once again to be at the church […]
GLORIOUS IS THE BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT, by Robert K. Churchill. Presbyterian and Reformed, 1976. 74pp., paper. $2.50. Reviewed by Rev. Jerome M. Julien, pastor of the First Christian Reformed Church of Sheldon, Iowa. The Rev. Churchill, an Orthodox Presbyterian minister, noting the generally inadequate understanding of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, undertook the […]
ROMANS CHAPTERS 9–16, by William Hendriksen. Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Mich., 535 pp., $12.95 . Reviewed by John Vander Ploeg. That Dr. William Hendriksen. notwithstanding his years, has found it possible to publish yet another in his series of New Testament Commentaries will be hailed as a godsend by all who recognize and appreciate […]
THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES AND PROPHETIC SPECULATION, by Edmond Charles Gruss. Presbyterian and Reformed, Nutley, N.J., 1972. 127 pp., $2.95 paper. Reviewed by Rev. Jerome Julien. The Jehovah’s Witnesses, known for setting dates for the end of the world, have an erroneous way of looking at Biblical chronology. This, Gruss, a former Jehovah’s Witness, points out. […]
THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES AND PROPHETIC SPECULATION, by Edmond Charles Gruss. Presbyterian and Reformed, Nutley, N.J., 1972. 127 pp., S2.95 paper. Reviewed by Rev. Jerome Julien. The Jehovah’s Witnesses, known for setting dates for the end of the world, have an erroneous way of looking at Biblical chronology. This, Gruss, a former Jehovah’s Witness, points out. […]
THE GOSPEL OF VIOLENCE by David Kingdon, A Significant Booklet Published by Carey Publications, 5 Fairford Close, Haywards Heath, Sussex RH16 3EF (England), 16pp. $1.50. Since the Reformation there has been some difference of conviction as to whether a Christian must continue to submit even to a bad government as “the ordinance of God,” as […]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF REVELATION by Herman Bavinck. Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 349 pages, paper. $7.95. Reviewed by Rev. Jerome Julien. Originally given as the Stone Lectures for 1908–09 at Princeton Seminary, this volume has as its purpose to set forth the philosophy of revelation. Such a philosophy traces “the idea of revelation, both […]
GEORGE WHITEFIELD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE GREAT EVANGELIST OF THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REVIVAL, Vol. 2, by Arnold A. Dallimore. Westchester, Illinois: Cornerstone Books, 1979; first edition, 1980. 602 pages. $22.50. Reviewed by Rev. Jerome M. Julien, minister of the First Christian Reformed Church of Pella Iowa. A wait of nearly ten years for Dallimore’s […]