All Articles For "As To Being Reformed" by R. B. Kuiper

The higher critics, writes Kuiper, have for many decades been attempting to prove that the religion of Israel was of a kind with the other religions of the ancient world as, for example, the Egyptian, the Babylonian, the Assyrian. At that very point the Old Testament critics have all the time been driving. And naturally in their argumentation they were everlastingly calling attention to common elements in Israel’s religion on the one hand and ancient paganism on the other. Of course, I agree wholeheartedly with all those be­lieving scholars who contend that the religion of Israel was essentially different, positively...

We were engaged in exposing Kuiper’s view of the divine degree of reprobation. It is Kuiper’s view, so it appeared, that God virtually rejected but not in fact. Re­jection does not signify, according to Kuiper, that the sovereign God took a definite positive stand over against those whom He failed to regard, the term merely signifies that the Almighty One passed them by. The term does not signify decision, determination, but necessary result. The term does not signify a volitional act. God did not decide, determine, will to reject these others. He merely did something which amounted to rejection. He...

Kuiper is one who subscribes to the doctrine of abso­lute election. Let us hear him on the matter. Says he: “While it is beside the purpose of this book to give an exposition of Reformed doctrine, yet I feel that a few remarks on the doctrine of predestination are called for. “This doctrine may be called the hall-mark of Calvin­ism …. “I believe that it is high time that the doctrine be re­asserted. If it is not, I am afraid that Calvinism will well nigh perish from the land. “The Bible teaches plainly in several places that already in eternity,...

It is the desire of the author that we regard his book as “an appeal to the members of the Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church to con­tinue soundly Reformed or to become more so.” (Preface) It is evident from the preface that, to the author, the two terms “Calvinism” and “Reformed faith” are syn­onymous. Says the author: “But the subject of this book is quite another and one of incomparably greater impor­tance. It is CALVINISM, primarily in its theological aspect.” And again: “The one thing that I propose to do is to call the attention of...

R. B. Kuiper’s latest publication, “As To Being Re­formed,” has by this time found its way into many homes. The production was highly recommended by its pub­lishers, the Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. We were urged to buy and read and we did so. I have something to say about this book. To begin with, why did the author write? What was his aim and purpose? What is the appeal and the message of the book? Let us hear the author himself. Says he: “The following pages are, in effect, an appeal to the members of the Reformed Church in...