All Articles For Humanism vs. Protestant Reformed Teachers: No R&R

Prof. Dykstra is professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. The Christian school teacher is engaged in an unceasing battle with humanism. The battles are fierce and the foe relentless because the stakes are high. All of secular education has been won over to the philosophy that man is the measure of all things. The one true God has been banned from the classroom, and many false gods have been set up in His place. Even in the realm of Christian education, humanism has made powerful inroads into the curriculum and instruction. Only in the...

Prof. Dykstra is professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. [The first installment pointed out that humanism is the philosophy that makes man the measure of all things. Some of the significant concomitant elements of that basic dictum include: 1.A denial of God as He has revealed Himself in Scripture. Depending on the emphasis of the particular humanist movement, the substitute god is man himself, or perhaps society, or culture, or science, and such like objects. 2.Earth-centeredness. 3.The liberty of man. 4.The striving for unity and peace, or a man-centered kingdom. Humanists paid lip service...

Prof. Dykstra is professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary.