It’s true, word labels can be annoying. I have a friend who felt utterly alienated after she attended a Bible study where “being Reformed” and “seeing things in a Reformed perspective” was the essence of the evening. No one had ever really walked her through the doctrines of grace before, let alone what Reformed theology [...]

Today, Neo-Calvinists seem to be infatuated with combining Darwinism/common descent with Christianity. The problem, of course, is that the founders of Neo-Calvinism – Herman Bavinck and Abraham Kuyper, perhaps the two greatest systematic theologians since John Calvin – abhorred the idea of theistic evolution and the idea that human beings descended from animals. Herman Bavinck, [...]

If in the area of history [the apostles and prophets] write ‘in accordance with appearance,’ that certainly has to mean not in accordance with what happened objectively but in accordance with what many in their day believed subjectively. In that case they give us a false impression and are therefore being compromised in their authority [...]

deLange’s Definition of “Myth”: Great Stuff, but It’s Not Actually Real One of these theologians is Reformer John Knox, who argues in his book Myth and Truth that Genesis does not truly refer to a factual event. After outlining the incarnation of Christ, Knox concludes, “Of the other two great myths, one (that of God’s [...]

The conference went well, as did my presentation “Calvin, Bavinck, and 21st Century views of Inerrancy” (audio is here, video and text are still processing). Though, I have much to learn in terms of being concise and effective during question and answer sessions (I’ve been telling myself a hundred times “I should have said _____!”). [...]

Abraham Kuyper and his successor Herman Bavinck are usually considered the “fathers of Neo-Calvinism.” I will spare you the details of what Neo-Calvinism is since more competent folks have already done so. But, I consider myself a Neo-Calvinist simply because I love the works of and adhere to the great majority of Kuyper and Bavinck’s [...]

My former Biology Professor, Dr. Tony Jelsma, who also drives the BioTechnology program as the Chair of Biology at Dordt College, recently wrote a fabulous article entitled “Is Creation Science Reformed?” He’s done postdoctoral research in England and Montreal Canada before teaching at Atlantic Baptist University. Dr. Jelsma has one of the most experienced, insightful, [...]