All Articles For Reflections on That Peculiar Creature

Prof. Engelsma is professor of Dogmatics and Old Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. *Originally the text of Prof. Engelsma’s speech at the annual meeting of the RFPA on September 23, 2004 in Grandville PR Church. Previous article in this two-part series: February 15, 2005, p. 226. The content of the Standard Bearer is theological, but the theology of the magazine is not simply Reformed doctrine. It is Reformed doctrine as confessed and developed by the Protestant Reformed Churches. The Standard Bearer is a Protestant Reformed magazine. This, too, belongs to its nature and purpose, its personality. In fact, as...

Prof. Engelsma is professor of Dogmatics and Old Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary, and recently retired editor of the SB. From the Reformed Free Publishing Association, publisher of the Standard Bearer, I received an invitation a few months ago to speak at the annual meeting of the association, “reflecting on your years as editor of the Standard Bearer.” My first inclination was to reject this topic because it requires me to talk about myself. This is a subject that is unappealing to me and that would be unedifying to you. On second thought, however, I decided that the topic...