The Biblical Doctrine of Election
The general plan of God with respect to the Universe we call God’s Counsel; His specific plan of the church is called Election.
Worldview
Calvinism: The Origin and Safeguard of our Constitutional Liberties
The ability of a plant to live depends on the root from which it springs. He who would guarantee our liberty to us should know where it originated and be able to tell whence it came.
Calvinism: The Biblical Criticism of the Present Day
In keeping with an ancient custom, it will be a rule at our University that the exchange of the rectorate shall be accompanied by an oration; and it is preferred that each rector shall take a theme from his own department.
Christianity & the Class Struggle
The question of how human beings are to live together in the proper use of the goods the Creator placed in this world, has always been and is today one of greatest importance.
The Implications of Public Confession
Baptism is not complete without its complement, the holy supper. When an infant is born into the world, the nurse who is in attendance washes it, because it is born unclean. It needs bathing, but that is not all it needs. It also needs food.
Lectures on Calvinism
It was not from Greece or Rome that the regeneration of human life came forth;—that mighty metamorphosis dates from Bethlehem and Golgotha.
Bavinck and Kuyper on Creation and Miracle
It has been the confession of the Church since its earliest days that God created all things and constantly maintains them in existence.
Descartes’ Theory of Contingency
In 1630, Descartes wrote a letter to Mersenne in which he stated a doctrine which was to shock his contemporaries… It was so unorthodox and so contrary to the prevailing theological opinion that Descartes was reluctant to make it public.
Capitalism and Progress
In two extensive volumes Spengler expounded the well-known thesis that the law of birth, maturity, and death applies not only to plants and animals but holds equally for civilizations.
Economic Stewardship vs. Capitalist Religion
The following pages contain an edited version of lectures presented by Dr. B. Goudzwaard at an economics and politics seminar sponsored by the Institute for Christian Studies in the summer of 1972.