Dr. W. Robert Godfrey is Associate Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary and Associate minister of the Trinity Christian Reformed Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was converted while in High School and joined the Christian Reformed Church at Alameda, California, took his undergraduate work at Stanford University, in California, obtained theM. Div. Degree […]

Dr. Harry Boer submitted to the 1977 CRC Synod a gravamen in which at the outset he states: “I submit herewith for synodical examination and adjudication a gravamen against the Reformed doctrine of reprobation as taught notably in the Canons of Dort, Chapter I, Article 6 and Chapter I, Article 15 . . .” In […]

The first point I wish to make is that there is an element of unreality present in Dr. Boer’s Confessional-Revision Gravamen on Reprobation, which is now under study in the Christian Reformed Church. A committee appointed by the Synod of 1977 has been receiving communications on the matter from the churches and is expected “to […]

Dr. Boer’s attack on traditional Reformed exegesis finds its special application in t he area of predestination, particularly as far as reprobation is concerned. He claims to agree wholeheartedly with the doctrine of election. As he writes: “Excluded from the gravamen are any objections to the doctrine of election. I stand wholly committed to the […]

In this and a subsequent article, Dr. Louis Praamsma, veteran church hist orian and retired CRC pastor living at Hamilton, Ontario, makes some pointed comments on the dual attack of Dr. Harry Boer on the Bible and on the Doctrine of Reprobation. In this issue he shows the fallacies of the charge that the Reformed […]