It was, of course, no surprise that the synod of ‘84 turned down the overture of Class is California South which asked that Calvin College be put under society control. But it is. nevertheless, annoying and disgusting to take note of the arguments that synod used for its decision. In no way did Classis California […]
LICENSING Students and Candidates Jelle Tuininga I have never been happy with the policy of having the Board of Trustees of Calvin College and Seminary license candidates for the ministry in the Christian Reformed Church or give students license to exhort in the churches. Now that this procedure has been “tightened” and updated, I am […]
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 […]
Libolt at Calvin (Jan. 1983 Issue) Editor, The Outlook, For someone apparently so concerned with factuality as the editor of The Outlook, he has remarkably little compunction about representing correctly what I said on the occasion of a speech at Calvin College. I will advert to a single but characteristic example of the distortion found […]
Puncturing the Inflated Self A highlight of the Evangelical Press Association’s annual meeting, this year held in Grand Rapids, Mich., was the May 12 address of David Myers entitled, “The Inflated Self: A New Look at Pride.” The Hope College psychology professor observed that we have long been sold the idea (promoted by many […]
On Tuesday, February 16 an annual CAREER DAY was scheduled at Calvin College. This project was jointly sponsored by the Counseling Center and Placement Office of the College, who arranged to bring on campus some 55 representatives of business, industry, community agencies and the professions. Among the wide variety of career areas to be represented […]
The Board of Trustees of Calvin College and Seminary, seeking to allay the widespread apprehensions of the churches about the orthodoxy of the faculty of their seminary and in its words “to remove some of the innuendos and false accusations that have been made” has sent a “Public Statement to all the consistories of the […]
On March 11–13 and 19–20 the Calvin College Thespians presented the musical drama Godspell in Calvin’s Gezon Auditorium. In this play actors represent Jesus and His disciples as clowns. The performance may indeed, as the student paper Chimes in its enthusiastic review observed, recall old morality plays, carry a religious message, be “based on the […]
This question is being asked in the CRC theological community. It is not a new question; most denominations have asked it and have come up with surprisingly different answers. Those who affirm the historical Adam have affirmed the traditional creationist view that God miraculously created man as a complete person. Those who deny Adam’s personal […]
The Bible teaches us plainly that although God makes men and women equal before Him (Gal. 3:28) He has not designed that their role in society be identical. He said that the man was to lead as “head” (1 Cor. 11:3; 1 Tim. 2:8–3:2). Today many professing Christians who support the popular “women’s liberation” movement […]