The Bible tells us of only one devil, but of legions of demons. The name “devil” is reserved for Satan, hut allied with him in his destructive work are unnumbered legions of wicked, fallen angels called “demons” of whom Satan is head or king (Revelation 9:11). Much greater attention has been paid to the demons than […]
Karl Barth diabolized contemporary theology with his meretricious distinction between “Historic” and “Geschichte”; many theologians today have renounced their faith in the infallibility of the Bible through accepting Barth’s seductive allegorizing of Biblical events, such as Christ’s Incarnation and Resurrection. Bultmann’s demythologizing of the Scriptures has been equally pernicious. In “Rudolf Bultmann: A Call to Arms?” (The Reformed […]
On March 22, last, Dr. W. Stanford Reid, a historian of reputation in Reformed circles, opened a series of lectures at Dordt College with a discussion of the idea of history in modern theology. Dr. Reid was especially critical of Karl Barth’s approach in which Barth makes a distinction between Historie and Geschichte; Geschichte wherein the […]
On October 31 it was 448 years ago that the monk, Martin Luther, posted his 95 theses upon the door of the castle church in Wittenburg. In itself it was a rather insignificant fact. It just meant that a young theological professor invited his colleagues for a dispute on certain theological issues. In reality, however it […]
DE BRIEF AAN DE PHILIPPENZEN EN DE BHIEF AAN PHILEMON (Commentaar op het Nieuwe Testament) by H. M. MATTER. J. H. Kok, N.V., Kampen, the Netherlands, 1965, 128 pp. Fl. 11.25. In the series of the Commentaar op het Nieuwe Testament, Dr. H. M. Matter presents a commentary on Philippians and Philemon. This volume replaces the almost 30year-old […]
He has been called “the great reformer of theology at the beginning of the nineteenth century”1; he has also been called “a philosophic enemy of the faith of the church.”2 After his death he was praised by his colleague Neander who declared: “With him will once begin a new period in the history of the church.” This […]
Karl Barth is reported to have said that all music should have only one goal; the honor and glory of God. What an ideal! What a challenge for the music departments of our schools and colleges. And that this ideal applies equally to the other departments such as literature, sports, etc., goes without saying. One just […]
The Church’s Witness to the World by PETER Y. DE JONG Pella Publishing Company, Pella, Iowa, Volume II, 1962, 446 pp. The author of this volume must be a prodigious worker. Though he has held some of the busiest pastorates in his denomination practically all of his ministerial li:fe, he has been able to produce […]
In the “conversation” between Dr. Marcus Barth, son of the world-renowned Karl Barth of Basel and member of the theological faculty of the University of Chicago, and Dr. Fred H. Klooster, professor of systematic theology at Calvin Seminary. held Feb. 8, 1963 at the Plymouth Heights Church in Grand Rapids, Dr. Barth referred to the so-called imprecatory […]