Vol 19 Issue 15

In the last two months our country has proven again that it has no right to be called a Christian Nation. Indeed there are many Christians in this country of ours. There are thousands upon thousands of them to be found in these United States. But the behavior of the nation as a whole, on the home front, has been decidedly unchristian. I have reference to the hoarding spree that preceded the rationing of canned goods and of meats which forced the Government to freeze these products so that the store shelves might not be drained of them before the...

Definition For a simple, general definition of Natural Law as used in the field of Ethics I can best borrow that given by J. Gottschick in the Schaff—Herzog Religion Encyclopedia since the term has a long history and the definition varies with the conceptions of God and the Cosmos. The above work defines as follows: “Those absolute and universally valid imperatives and that are innate (inborn) in the reason of every individual and necessarily come into consciousness with the development of the mind.” The writer further elucidates as follows: This thought originated with the Stoics who wished to show that...

Introduction The eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Romans may be divided into three main sections. The first section, containing the vss. 1 to 16, is concerned about the question with which the apostle introduces it in the first verse of the chapter, namely, “Hath God cast away his people?” The second main part, comprising the verses 17 to 24, presents to us the figure of the olive tree with its natural branches, some cut off and re-engrafted, and also the engrafted branches of the wild olive tree. The final section, verse 25 and following, speaks about the final...

Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion is the best known of all Calvin’s works, and is worthy of reading and study to this very day. The first edition of the Institutes were written by Calvin when he was about twenty five years old. Several times Calvin rewrote it, until some years prior to his death it appeared in its present length and form. The Institutes were written in Latin, but also in a French translation which Calvin himself supplied. The Institutes gained a wide reading public from the very first, and became the handbook of many theological schools is courses...

Let us again get before us the description of Joshua’s task with respect to the enemies of Israel. “When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. And it shall be, if it make thee an answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: and when the Lord thy God shall deliver...

We must still call the attention of our readers to Van Til’s “As If philosophy. It is, according to him, especially with a view to the practical cooperation between the Christian and the non-Christian in this world, that we have need of an “as if,” and we actually proceed on its tacit assumption and presupposition. We cannot quote here all that Van Til has to say on this subject. Yet, before we discuss this notion, we will let him present his ideas in his own words. Writes he on p. 18: “On what basis then can we speak of cooperation...