BIBLICAL CRITICISM AT CALVIN Dear Editor: Lately, quite a bit of attention in The Outlook has been given to what is being taught at Calvin College. Since I have recently taken a course there that dealt with the women-in-church office issue that disturbed me somewhat, and was representative of the other religion and theology classes […]
PUNT’S “BIBLICAL UNIVERSALISM” Dear Editor: I greatly appreciate the fairness and accuracy with which the Rev. John Vander Ploeg presented the premise of my book in his article “Punt’s ‘Biblical Universalism’” (Feb. ’81). The most important question, however, is whether my exegesis of the so-called “universalistic” texts is biblically accurate. The article says nothing about […]
Dear Editor, I want to thank OUTLOOK for its tribute to Edwin H. Palmer, for he was responsible for my being aware of the magazine, he bought me a gift subscription in March. The thoughts about him were absolutely true, especially the statement, “he wanted Reformed people to love their doctrine and to promote their […]
Dear Editor: The interesting article “A Break Overdue” by H. VanderKam, July 1980, evoked memories as well as insights re the Schilder controversy in the Netherlands. There are several parallels which I feel should have been made since, although the issues may have been different, the mode of procedure is almost identical to the past […]
ON THE HOSPICE MOVEMENT The Rev. Mr. E. L. Hebden Taylor’s treatise entitled “First Legalized Abortion Now Legalized Euthanasia” in the June 1980 issue of the Outlook contains statements upon which I must comment. My perspective is that of a Christian, professional critical care nurse with thirty years of nursing experience. For me, the challenge […]
The following have been submitted and we place them, without endorsement, for the interest of our readers. Dear Editor: On February 18, 1980, the Orthodox Christian Reformed Church of Burlington, Washington, was organized as a Church of Jesus Christ. On that date former mem· hers of the Christian Reformed Church of Mount Vernon, Washington, chose […]
ON THE VOS LEGACY It was good that the Outlook carried the article by Peter De Jong on Geerhardus Vos and J.G. Vos. Some scholars feel that G. Vos was the greatest Reformed theologian the western hemisphere has produced. They consider that the mantle of Calvin fell on his shoulders. And J.G. is not only […]
Dear Editor: In your article (“The Child’s Name was God,” December 1979) discussing my convocation address at The King’s College you insist that my speech “perverts in typically Liberal tradition everything that the Bible teaches about Christ’s coming,” resulting in “a humanistic distortion of the Gospel of God.” That is preposterous. The fact is, I […]
Outlook Editor: I am writing this in response to the article “Should we make pictures of Jesus Christ?” by Stefan Trenev in the July,1979 edition of the Outlook . This article states that making and using pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ in Sunday School material, Baptism certificates, etc. is in “direct violation of the […]
REACTIONS TO THE SYNOD The Verhey Case Dr. Verhey, a minister of the Christian Reformed Church who teaches at Hope college in Holland. Mich., questions the speaking of the serpent in Gen. 3 and the reality of the earthquake in Matt. 28:2. Synod was asked to make a final decision of this matter this year. […]