Christ and Adam. Man and Humanity in Romans 5 Karl Barth Harper & Brothers, New York, 1957. pp. 96. $2.00 This is a translation by T. A. Smail of Karl Barth’s Christus und Adam Nach Rom. 5 published in 1952. An introduction to this edition of the translation is provided by Wilhelm Pauck in which […]
Centennial Reflections: In the Mirror, An Appraisal of the Christian Reformed Church, by John H. Kromminga, President of Calvin Seminary. Guardian Publishing Company, Hamilton, Ont., Canada. I Will Build My Church, by Thea B. Van Halsema, International Publications, Grand Rapids, Mich. The Centennial year has occasioned the writing of these books. I Will Build My […]
Protestant Preaching in Lent by Harold J. Ockenga Published by the W. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 255 Jefferson Ave., SE Grand Rapids 3, Mich., 1957; price $3.95. This is the first volume in the Eerdmans Annual Lenten Series. The volume consists of seven series, each including from four to eight messages. The messages are condensed sermons, […]
The Christian Concept of Freedom by Henry Stob Grand Rapids International Publication, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1957. 52 pages. This slender booklet consists of two lectures by Dr. Henry Stob, Calvin Seminary Associate Professor of Ethics and Apologetics, the first on the Liberty of Man” and the second on “The Liberty of Conscience.” The lectures are […]
by R. Bradley Jones Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Mich. $1.75 Gold from Golgotha is a reprint containing a series of sermons on the seven utterances of Christ on the cross. The Christian reader will be happy to find throughout the book the author’s clear testimony to his acceptance of the doctrine of inspiration, and of the […]
Principles of Conduct John Murray Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids 3, Michigan, 272 pages. $3.50. The substance of this book is a series of lectures delivered at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, in 1955. However, the author tolls us in the preface that he has expanded the original lectures considerably in the present […]
The Free Offer of the Gospel: by John Murray and Ned B. Stonehouse Published by Lewis J. Gratenhuis, Belvidere Road, Philipsburg, New Jersey. pp. 27. Paper bound. 25 cents. Reformed theology has always spoken of a limited atonement. The atoning death of Christ is efficacious only in reference to those whom God has chosen unto […]
DROGENDUK, A.C. Man en Vrouw Voor en I n het Huwelijk 6th ed. Kampen, J. H. Kak, 1955. 221 pp. f. 5.90. The Christian public can be thankful that out of the recent deluge of literature on the subject of the sexual life there has come a number of books from the Christian side that […]
CORNELIUS VAN TIL The Dilemma of Education The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Compony. 1956. ix. 44. In this short but interesting pamphlet Westminster’s Apologist applies his distinctive philosophical approach to the field of education. He proVides us with an evaluation of certain contending philosophies of education in the light of what he believes to be tho only […]
All Ye That Labor: An Essay On Christianity, Communism, and the Problem of Evil. (Eerdman’s Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, 1956, 128 pp.) According to the publisher’s introduction this is the first of a series of books to be published under the general title Pathway Books. One of the aims of this undertaking is, in the […]