Issue
Modern Reformation Turns Ten
Vol. 11, No. 1 • Jan/Feb 2002
If someone had asked me a decade ago about the sufficiency of Scripture, I would have given a zealous defense of the historic Reformed position. I will do the same today; I still affirm the historic Reformed view without any variation from its expression in the Westminster Confession’s first chapter: The whole counsel of God […]
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How My Mind Has Changed
If someone had asked me a decade ago about the sufficiency of Scripture, I would have given a zealous defense of the historic Reformed position. I will do the same today; I still affirm the historic Reformed view without any variation from its expression in the Westminster Confession’s first chapter: The whole counsel of God […]
Why the Alliance?
In the churches of the Protestant Reformation, the Apostles’ or Nicene Creed is recited regularly, including the line, “I believe in one holy, catholic, and apostolic church.” Catholic means universal, and it refers to those truths that are, as St. Paul identified them, to be held “without controversy” (1 Tim. 3:16, KJV). It also refers […]
How My Mind Has Changed on the Centrality of the Congregation
Ever since becoming a Christian in high school, the role of the local congregation has been important to me. I remember spending some (ok, many) hours the first summer I was a Christian in my church’s library, compiling statistics about the growing membership of our church and tabulating that in comparison with our shrinking attendance. […]
Whatever Happened to Evangelicalism?
The decade of the 1990s was not the best of times for Evangelicalism in the United States. To be sure, evangelicals continue to be a force in national politics, and they have received favorable treatment in the press, such as Alan Wolfe’s positive coverage of evangelical academics in the Atlantic Monthly (October 2000). But Evangelicalism […]
How My Mind Has Changed
Almost thirty years ago, I got involved in the charismatic movement. And that involvement has continued to influence my thinking over the last decade. In 1971, I visited the prayer and praise gathering of a charismatic community in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I was impressed, to say the least. Why, I asked, would a mixture of […]
The More Things Change…
Dr. Ann Douglas is Professor of American Studies at Columbia University and author of The Feminization of American Culture and Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. She has argued that the demise of Calvinism led to a sentimentalism in religion, which has had a long-term impact upon American culture. It is one of the […]
