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.
Worldview
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.
The Beginning of Wisdom
If you were to survey all of the titles in the “Self-Help” genre, you could probably begin to see how the world’s “wisdom” has been shared from culture to culture, language to language, epoch to epoch, and has converged into this one genre like a sticky mess of a hodgepodge.
In What Do We Place Our Hope?
The sun is reaching its solar maximum, people are worried about an “internet-apocalypse”, and since the pandemic we are again witnessing mass hysteria. In what, or who, do we place our trust?
The Revolt Against the Culture of Truth
We have rejected divine revelation as the basis of truths not only about God but about human nature, and in turn ignored it as the source of human understanding and human flourishing.