THE 1966 SYNOD OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA Ronald Brown 2VIEWPOINT: A New Twist; Where the Action is: Wickedness in the place of Justice; Mr. President, ask for his resignation now 4THE THREE LOVES OF PROFESSOR KUIPER Peter Y. De Jong 6THE BIBLE IS GOD’S WORD R.B. Kuiper 8WHAT...
FUNERAL ON THE CAMPUS Edward Heerema 2THE EDITOR’S PAGE Peter Y. De Jong 6CHRIST, THE CHRISTIAN AND SATAN Richard R. De Ridder 8ARE OUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS IN DANGER? Jerome Julien 12KUYPER ON THE AMERICAN CHURCH SCENE Peter De Jong 14THE 19TH CENTURY CONFESSIONAL STRUGGLE IN THE REFORMED CHURCHES OF THE...
THE 1966 SYNOD OF THE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH John H. Piersma 2THE EDITOR’S PAGE Peter Y. De Jong 6GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY AND SECULAR CAUSALITY Nick R. Van Til 8VIEWPOINT: The Great Influence of Song and Music; Teaching Children to Pray; Theology or Christ – a False Antithesis 11SURVEY John H. Piersma...
THE BOOKS OF THE ASCENSION Edward Heerema 2PROFESSOR R.B. KUIPER 1886–1966 7THE EDITOR’S PAGE Peter Y. De Jong 8GENERAL SYNOD OF THE REFORMED IN AMERICA – 1966 Jerome De Jong 12THE REVEREND CHRISTIAN HUISSEN 1896–1966 13VIEWPOINT: Let’s Match Calvinists and Romanists!; The Great Society; Things to live by; And reap...
REFORM IS NOT STIFLED BY CREEDAL COMMITMENT John H. Piersma 2THE EDITOR’S PAGE Peter Y. De Jong 6A LOOK AT BOOKS: Matter – Philippenzen on Philemon; Rackham – The Acts of the Apostles; Hoekema – Karl Barth’s Doctrine on Sanctification; Woolley – Family, State and Church: God’s Institutions 11SURVEY John...
THE CONFESSION OF 1967: AN ANATOMY OF DECAY Jerome Julien 3VIEWPOINT: Sabbaticals; Evolution – the Crux of the Question; Whose God is Dead? 6RENEWAL OR REGENERATION Gordon Girod 8SABBATICALS FOR THE MINISTRY John S. De Kruyter 11CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE ANABAPTISTS TO THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE Albert Hyma 12CONGRATULATIONS...
OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN R.B. Kuiper 3SURRENDER TO EVOLUTION: INEVITABLE OR INEXCUSABLE? Johannes G. Vo 4VIEWPOINT: The Free and Dr. King; RIA; Another Robbery; How Long?; Church Visiting 8THE NEW UNIVERSALISM Gordon Girod 10MUST CHRISTIANS FORM POWER ORGANIZATIONS? Gerald Vandezande 12THE HISTORICAL JESUS Simon Kistemaker 19
IN MEMORIUM: PETER H. ELDERSVELD Peter Y. De Jong 3WHAT DR. ELDERSVELD SAID Compiled by John H. Piersma 4PETER H. ELDERSVELD (1911–1965) James De Jonge 7WHAT MAKES PREACHING TRULY GREAT? Peter Y. De Jong 9THE OFFENSE OF THE CROSS Johannes G. Vos 11VIEWPOINT: How Changing is the Climate?; Honest to...
THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS John Richard De Witt 3 I ASK Elsie D. Kuizema 6 HE THAT COMETH Marten H. Woudstra 7 THE MEANING OF POETRY FOR THE CHRISTIAN Merle Meeter 9 ARE WE GRADUATING SCHIZOPHRENICS? Alexander C. De Jong 11 THE ANNUNCIATION Elsie D. Kuizema 15 A CALL...
VIEWPOINT: Ecumencity and Separation; Learning under the Lamp of God 3MOLDERS OF THE CONTEMPORARY MIND: KARL BARTH Fred. H. Klooster 5CONSERVATIVE TRENDS IN THE KOREAN CHURCH Harvie M. Conn 8JOHN DEWEY: THE FATHER OF PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION? C. John Miller 14STEP-CHILDREN OF THE REFORMATION Peter De Jong 17STUDENTS IN TENSION Michael...
VIEWPOINT: I Respectfully Decline to Answer; Evangelicals and the W.C.C.; I.W.W. 3THE ECLIPSE OF THE INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY Edwin H. Palmer 5CHRISTIAN CAMEL DRIVERS, UNITE? Calvin Seerveld 8TOWARDS A CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY Remkes Kooistra 13A NEW DAY FOR FREEDOM? Harry Antonides 15SPECIAL GIFTS FOR A SPECIAL AGE John H. Skilton 18UNDER CHURCH...
GOD’S PROMISE OF HIS PRESENCE Leonard Greenway 3VIEWPOINT: Just Call Me Dick; Some Thoughts on Jefferson’s Birthday 5DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT GENESIS 1? John C. Whitcomb 6AN AROUSED LAITY R.B. Kuiper 9DESCENT TO PATHOS Clifford Bajema 11A STRANGER COMES TO THE INNER CITY Clifford Bajema 12GOD’S...
VIEWPOINT: A Choice not an Echo; Hypostatic Thinking; A Note on Medicare Under Social Security 3SETTLED AND BINDING: Correspondence with Other Churches (2) 5ASPECTS OF CHRISTIAN SOCIAL ETHICS Bernard Zylstra 6REBEL SAINT RECLAIMED Merie Meetner 9WHAT ABOUT EVOLUTION? Russell W. Maatman 10UNDER CHURCH SPIRES: Are the Churches Being Changed? 12EDUCATION...
VIEWPOINT: A Choice not an Echo; Hypostatic Thinking; A Note on Medicare Under Social Security 3SETTLED AND BINDING: Correspondence with Other Churches (2) 5ASPECTS OF CHRISTIAN SOCIAL ETHICS Bernard Zylstra 6REBEL SAINT RECLAIMED Merie Meetner 9WHAT ABOUT EVOLUTION? Russell W. Maatman 10UNDER CHURCH SPIRES: Are the Churches Being Changed? 12EDUCATION...
VIEWPOINT: Action Speaking Louder Than Words?; A Spiritual Thermometer; I Could Not Believe It! 3MEDITATION – UNFAILING PROMISES Jerome Julien 4OF MEN AND OF ANGELS Henry A. Bruinsma 5CHRISTMAS MESSAGE Elsie D. Kuizema 7WHAT VERBAL INSPIRATION IS NOT! Edwin H. Palmer 8SPEAKING WITH TONGUES (II) Stuart Bergsma 9UNDER CHURCH SPIRES:...
FORMULA FOR GRATITUDE Peter De Jong 3VIEWPOINT: Progress So-Called; What is Extremism?; Revolution Within the Form 3NEEDED – AWAKE ELDERS Peter Y. De Jong 4THANKSGIVING AND THE CUP OF SALVATION Alexander C. De Jong 6SPEAKING WITH TONGUES Stuart Bergsma 8THE REFORMATION AND THEOLOGY Fred H. Klooster 11UNDER THE CHURCH SPIRES:...
CALVIN ON OUR DUTE TOWARDS THE CHURCH 3SECRETS OF CALVINIST SUCCESS IN THE NETHERLANDS Peter De Jong 4I WOULD THAT YE ALL SPAKE WITH TONGUES...BUT Remekes Kooistra 8CHURCH DISCIPLINE John H. Piersma 10ROMAN CATHOLICISM IN A CHANGING LATIN AMERICA Edward Meyer 11CLEARING AWAY SOME MISUNDERSTANDINGS Edwin H. Palmer 13GENESIS, EVOLUTIONISM...
VIEWPOINT: Is This Sound Pedagogy?; Christianizing the Public School?; The Christian and the Coming Election 3THE HIGH DESTINY OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Ronald P. Brown 5ARE CATECHETICAL CLASSES OBSOLETE? Rein Leetsma 8MY NATURE LESSON Elsie D. Kuizema 9A PILGRIMAGE FROM FEAR TO FAITH Merle Meeter 10A BUNDLE OF LIFE Elsie D....
VIEWPOINT: Capitulation or Dedication?; Exit God! Enter the Police!; Pastor, Preacher, Writer, Editor, Professor 3CALVIN AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE REFORMATION Louis Praasma 4CHURCH DISCIPLINE John H. Piersma 6PLANNING FOR MEXICO Gerald Nyenhuis 7A MODEST CONTRIBUTION ON THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM Roger Nicole 10IT SEEMED GOOD...
VIEWPOINT: Strange Fire on the Altar; Proclaiming the Five Points of Calvinism; Let’s Go Promiscuous; No Coals to Newcastle 3CHURCH DISCIPLINE John H. Piersma 5ELECTION, GOD’S LOVE AND THE UNIVERSAL OFFER Martin LaMaire 6ALARMING STATISTICS: WHY? Henry Vanden Heuvel 10RELIGIOUS RACKETEERING Leonard Greenway 11SOME CONCLUSIONS AS TO THE LOVE OF...
VIEWPOINT: God’s Word for Today’s World; Tilting with Tillich 3“BLOODY SWEAT”: A LENTEN MEDITATION BY JACOB REVIUS Henrietta Ten Harmsel 4SETTLED AND BINDING: Living as a Christians 6HOW IT ALL BEGAN Simon Kistemaker 7DOES A HUMAN BIBLE MEAN A FALLIBLE BIBLE? Edwin H. Palmer 10CHURCH DISCIPLINE John H. Piersma 11UNDER...
VIEWPOINT: We Ought to Tell the Whole Truth; Quiz or Quantenus; Re-treading the Retired 3THE WITNESS OF THE JAPANESE CHRISTIANS Itsuro Hijaya 5CHURCH DISCIPLINE John H. Piersma 8JACOBUS REVIUS: DUTCH REFORMED POET Henrietta Ten Harmsel 8THE “OFFERING” OF BENEDICTION Allan Dykstra 10SCENE SHIFT IN THE GARDEN Merle Meeter 11CHRIST’S PARTICULAR...
The Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free! 3 Mr. Cornelius VanKempen The Office of Christian Believer 5Rev. Greg Lubbers You are What You See (and Hear) 8Mrs. Elisabeth Bloechl A Radical New Limitation on the Authority of Scripture 11Rev. Doug Barnes Lies 13Mrs. Annemarieke Ryskamp The...
VIEWPOINT: Let's Talk Spiritual Things; J.F.K. and Corporate Responsibility 3MORE ON SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE FOR THE NEGRO Dennis Hoekstra 4THE SERMON – THE SENDER – THE SINNER Alexander C. De Jong 7A MISSIONARY MUSES ON THE WRATH OF GOD Gerard Van Groningen 10SETTLED AND BINDING: On the Inspiration of the Scriptures...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY 1917–1963 3TRAGEDY? Edwin H. Palmer 4GREETING FOR THE NEW YEAR Elsie D. Kuizema 5VIEWPOINT: The Paradox of Human Government; A Sleeper; Prophetic Dialecticism 5FREEDOM IN EDUCATION William D. Valente Esq. 7TEACHING THEOLOGY IN AN ERA OF CHANGE – A Report Nicholas J. Monsma 12MEDITATION Francois Guillaume 16UNDER...
MEDITATION Francois Guillaume 3VIEWPOINT: No Room for Jesus Christ?, Preaching and the Vatican Council, Wrestling with the Problems 4WHY THE CHURCH CAPITULATED (III) E. Akos Pereszlenyi 5THE KOREAN CHURCH AND THE REFORMED FAITH TODAY Theodore Hard 7THE CHANGING FACE OF OUR NIGERIAN MISSION Robert Recker 9CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD 12LATER...
MEDITATION Francois Guillaume 3VIEWPOINT 4ARE ELECTION AND EVANGELISM COMPATIBLE? Allan Dykstra 6NIGERIA: A CHALLENGE IN MISSION STRATEGY Robert Recker 7CALVIN AND THE SINCERE OFFER OF SALVATION 9THE CHARACTER OF THE CHURCH’S CREED (II) Louis Praasma 12REFORMED ADVANCE IN NEW ZEALAND R.O. Zorn 14THE EARLY RECEPTION OF OUR CATECHISM Enno Wolthuis...
MEDITATION: Only God Can Making Blessing to be Restored John Piersma 3THE NEW FACE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Edward Heerema 4VIEWPOINT Christian Huissen 5THE CHARACTER OF THE CHURCH’S CREEDS I Louis Praasma 6THE SYNOD OF 1963 AND THE ORANGE CITY OVERTURE Edward Heerema 9THE REFORMED ECUMENICAL SYNOD: A Report...
MEDITATION: The Yearning of God’s Spirit Over Us Francois Guillaume 3THE CHRISTIAN HOME Francis E. Mahaffy 4A SATANIC ASSAULT ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION R.B. Kuiper 6 GENESIS ONE – IS IT HISTORICAL? Edward J. Young 8INDIVIDUALISM Rousas J. Rushdoony 10WHY THE CHURCH CAPITULATED II E. Akos Pereszlenyi 11THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM –...
MEDITATION: As Hovering Birds Francois Guillaume 3VIEWPOINT... 4A REPORT ON SYNOD 1963: Calvin College – Knollcrest Campus Development, Rehoboth Hospital, The “Dekker Case”, The Proposed Revised Church Order 7THE FIFTH REFORMED ECUMENICAL SYNOD Nicholas J. Monsma 14IT HAPPENED 40 YEARS AGO Enno Wolthuis 18CATHOLIC ACTION: ITS METHODS AND MENACE (III)...