The Calvin Forum (1935-1956)

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The Calvin Forum: January 1936

Calvin College and Seminary
Volume: 1, Issue: 6

CONTENTS - Vol. I. No. 6, JANUARY, 1936
EDITORIALS
123 - Hands Off Christmas
123 - Authorities on God
123 - A Comment on Leadership
124 - The Impossible
124 - When Professors Speak
125 - Christian Political Action

ARTICLES
125 - Economic Aspects of the New Deal. By Theodore J. Kreps, Ph.D.
129 - Calvinism and Islam. By Samuel M. Zwemer, D.D., F.R.G.S.
131 - Leadership. By Johannes Broene, A.M.
134 - Rembrandt Van Rhijn. By H. J. Van Andel, A.M.
136 - As to Limitation of Crops. By Paul De Koekkoek
139 - "God's Hunchback". By Carandasj
140 - We Listen To Our Readers

BOOKS
142 - A Christian-Theistic Methodology

VERSE
133 - The Continent of Heart
135 - Divine Program
135 - Tschaikowski
The Calvin Forum: July 1936

Calvin College and Seminary
Volume: 1, Issue: 12

CONTENTS - Vol. I. No. 12, JULY, 1936
EDITORIALS
267 - To My SouL
267 - No Ministers Wanted
267 - "Let Not the Sun Go Down on Your Wrath"
268 - Life's Maladjustments
268 - A Journal for Calvinistic Philosophy
268 - Freedom - Just a Word?

ARTICLES
269 - Is Our Government Promoting Paganism? An Open Letter
272 - Christianity and the Lot of the Laboring Man. By Albertus Pieters, D.D.
273 - The Reformation of 1886. By Samuel Volbeda, Th.D.
276 - A Birth Control Testimony
277 - Two Billion Years! By John De Vries, Ph.D.
279 - Christ, the Church, and Social Problems. By Edward! B. Horne, M.A., D.D.
282 - Netherland Jottings. By H. J. V. A.

BOOK REVIEWS
284 - Some Recent American Theology
284 - The New Testament Canon
285 - Politics and Moral Integrity
285 - The Soul of the Eskimo
286 - Those Seventy Weeks

VERSE
276 - Summer Afternoon
282 - Blue Moonlight
283 - Scented Hour
286 - Index to Volume I
The Calvin Forum: June 1936

Calvin College and Seminary
Volume: 1, Issue: 11

CONTENTS - Vol. I. No. 11, JUNE, 1936
EDITORIALS
243 - Ecclesiastical Money Making Mania
243 - The Humanization of God
243 - Evolution and the Christian Faith
244 - What to Read on Evolution and Creation
244 - May We Ask Two Favors?
244 - An Alphabetical Index for your CALVIN FORUM

ARTICLES
245 - How Old is the Earth? By John De Vries, Ph.D.
247 - Reformation Heritage and Social Responsibility. By Edward B. Horne,
M.A., D.D.
249 - Secularizing the Lord's Day. By John G. Van Dyke, Th.M.
252 - Evolution and its Danger. By W. Bell Dawson, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.C.
253 - Divergences in Magyar Calvinism. By Alexander Toth, D.D.
256 - News from Holland
257 - Lower Prices Our Economic Remedy? A Review
258 - Correspondence

BOOK REVIEWS
261 - Calvin and Economics
261 - Hungarian Scholars on Calvinism
261 - Cooperatives in Sweden
262 - Kagawa's Rock Not Our Rock
263 - From the Pyramids to Robinson
263 - Communism and Capitalism

VERSE
251 - Final Arbiter
251 - O God of Heaven, Speak!
260 - God's Needlework
260 - Influence?
The Calvin Forum: March 1936

Calvin College and Seminary
Volume: 1, Issue: 8

CONTENTS - Vol. I. No. 8, MARCH, 1936
EDITORIALS
171 - Theology - A Queen?
171 - The Denominational College
172 - The Vagaries of Anglo-Israelism

ARTICLES
173 - The Views of Toyohiko Kagawa. By Henry Schultze, B.D.
175 - Planned Conception. By Jacob D. Mulder, S.B., M.D.
177 - Dean Inge on Sin and Redemption. By J. G. Van Dyke, Th.M.
182 - On Studying the Greek New Testament. By W. T. Radius, A.M.
183 - The Realism of Washington. By Peter C. J. Goeree
185 - Cross Sections of Life and Thought. By the Editor

BOOK REVIEWS
189 - Bliss Perry's Autobiography
189 - Man and the Universe
190 - Reformed Doctrine by Radio
190 - On Unitarianism
191 - Christianity Supernatural
191 - Immortality
191 - Kagawa's English Works
191 - Women of the Bible

VERSE
179 - Invocation
180 - To the Rhine
191 - A Kind of Faith
The Calvin Forum: May 1936

Calvin College and Seminary
Volume: 1, Issue: 10

CONTENTS - Vol. I. No. 10, MAY, 1936
EDITORIALS
219 - Religious Liberty Imperilled
219 - Father Divine's Peace Mission
219 - The Old Modernistic Trick

ARTICLES
220 - National Sovereignty and Wars of Invasion. An Anomaly of International
Law. By Gerald Monsman, J.D.
224 - The Camel's Hump. A Phantasy. By Frank Vanden Berg
225 - Darbyism Versus the Historic Christian Faith. By Albertus Pieters, D.D.
229 - After the Spring. By Bastian Kruithof
233 - The Christian in Present-Day Society. By Paul W. Harrison, M.D.
235 - A Letter. By John Clover Monsma

BOOK REVIEWS
236 - Dr. Lightfoot on the Gospels
237 - A "Scientific" Theory of Education
237 - Sound Religious Pedagogy
238 - Santayana's Puritan
238 - Evolution and the Species
240 - Original Monotheism vs. Primitive Animism
240 - The Missionary Education of Young People

VERSE
233 - For Three Friends
232 - Trees
240 - A Test for Wisdom
The Calvin Forum: November 1936

Calvin College and Seminary
Volume: 2, Issue: 4

CONTENTS - Vol. II. No. 4, NOVEMBER, 1936
EDITORIALS
75 - What Abides After November Third
75 - Frank Buchman Thanks God for a Hitler
76 - Yes - Let Us Have a Real Dictatorship!
76 - On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings
77 - The Social and the Individual Gospel
77 - Too Much Education

ARTICLES
78 - How Beautiful Upon the Mountains. By Bastian Kruithof, A.M.
81 - Justice. By Dorr Kuizema, LL.D.
83 - The Place of God in Our Lives. By Mark Fakkema, A.M.
86 - Testimonials to Calvin's Institutes
87 - Spiritual Developments in Magyar Calvinism. By Alexander Toth, D.D.
91 - Our Readers Have the Microphone

BOOK REVIEWS
93 - Flaying the Omniscient Modernist
93 - Pre-Columbian American History
94 - A Readable Church History
94 - Missions in the Middle Ages
94 - The Dissenting American Churches
95 - Humor and Science
95 - Black and White on the Negro Problem
96 - On the Apostles' Creed
96 - Two Devotional Books96 - Books in Brief

VERSE
90 - Calvin
90 - This Garden
90 - The Triumphant Apologetic
The Calvin Forum: October 1936

Calvin College and Seminary
Volume: 2, Issue: 3

CONTENTS - Vol. II. No. 3, OCTOBER, 1936
EDITORIALS
51 - An Everlasting Sermon Moratorium
51 - America - Sick with Religions
51 - Canst Thou by Searching Find Out God?
52 - The Red Blight in America
52- The Depreciation of Human Personality
52 - Erasmus Celebration and Erasmus

ARTICLES
53 - Social Teachings of Calvin's Institutes. By Edward J. Tanis, A.M.
57 - Disillusionments of Modernism. By Louis Berkhof, B.D.
60 - Wanted: A Chr'istian Political Philosophy. By John J. De Boer, A.M.
63 - Coram Deo. By Thomas E. Welmers, A.M., B.D.
65 - The New Deal. By Henry J. Ryskamp, Ph.D.
68 - A Roman Priest in American Politics. By Charles Vincze, S.T.D.

BOOK REVIEWS
69 - The Reformed Faith
69 - A Reduced Ghristology
70 - What is the Church?
70 - Christ in Africa
71 - Lyman Beecher Lectures
72 - Lighthouse Lore

VERSE
56 - John Calvin
56 - The Mystic Key
64 - Stars and God
67 - Stubble and Clay
The Calvin Forum: September 1936

Calvin College and Seminary
Volume: 2, Issue: 2

CONTENTS - Vol. II No. 2, SEPTEMBER, 1936
EDITORIALS
27 - The Coming Presidential Election
27 - Once More Comes Labor Day
28 - Four Hundred Years Ago
28 - Sphere Sovereignty and Liberty
28 - Sphere Sovereignty and Philosophy
29 - Evangelical Women, Unite
29 - Is It True?
29 - Soil Conservation

ARTICLES
30 - John Calvin's Institutes - Then and Now. By H. Henry Meeter, Th.D.
33 - We in South Africa. By J. Christian Coetzee, Ph.D.
35 - Labor Conditions and Practical Christianity. By Albertus Pieters, D.D.
37 - Karl Barth and John Calvin. By William T. Riviere, D.D.
40 - An Approach to the New Deal. By Henry J. Ryskamp, Ph.D.
42 - Our Two Major Parties - An Interpretation. By Peter Hoekstra, Ph.D.

BOOK REVIEWS
45 - Independency and Reformed Polity
45 - Man - Science - Telepathy - Miracles
46 - Christian Help on Moral Questions
47 - Het Reveil in Nederland

VERSE
36 - My Choice
39 - As Calvin
47 - John Calvin - Man of God
The Calvin Forum: December 1935

Calvin College and Seminary
Volume: 1, Issue: 5

CONTENTS - Vol. I. No. 5, DECEMBER, 1935

EDITORIAL
99 - War, Peace, and the Christian

ARTICLES
103 - Mark Twain and the Forgotten Boy. By Bastian Kruithof, A.M.
104 - Japan as an International Danger. By Albertus Pieters, D.D.
107 - A Quest for Certainty amidst Modern; Perplexity. By Cornelius Jaarsma, Ph.D.
109 - Nay! Nay! Nay! No A.A.A. By John Hanenburg
111 - The Message of the Reformation for Our Day. By Peter Holwerda
114 - Pure Pacifism. By B. D. Dykstra
116 - As Our Readers See It

BOOK REVIEWS
117 - The Soul of Mark Twain
118 - Lectures on Preaching
118 - Art in Story and Pictures
118 - Contemporary Educational Trends
119 - A Dutch Reformed Theologian
119 - A Cross Section of Mexico
119 - Home Missions

VERSE
115 - I Saw a Man
The Calvin Forum: May 1935

Calvin College and Seminary
Volume: 1, Issue: 1

CONTENTS - Vol. I. No. 1, MAY, 1935
Editorial Contributions:
3 - Facing New Issues: A Statement
5 - Editorial Paragraphs
6 - A Vicious Circle
7 - The New Frontier Days

Contributed Articles:
8 - Russian Communism - An Indictment. By Peter Hoekstra, Ph.D
10 - The Enigma of the Theology of Crisis. By Diedrich H. Kromminga, Th.B
13 - The Government Calls Me to Fight - Must I Obey? Two Views. By Jacob Harry Bruinooge, Th.D., and. Peter G. Berkhout, M.D
17 - Inst.ruction by the Living Voice: A Plea. By Henry Van Zyl, Ph.D.

Books, Principles, and Ideas:
20 - Evolution Atheistic
21 - Recent Gospel Research
21 - Erasmus as Inclusive Religious Liberal.
22 - A Pastor on "Nervous Breakdown"
22 - Shall Christian Missions Continue Christian?
23 - America's Outstanding Literary Writers
23 - The Old Brand with a New Wrapper
23 - Books in Brief
The Calvin Forum: November 1935

Calvin College and Seminary
Volume: 1, Issue: 4

CONTENTS - Vol. I. No. 4, NOVEMBER, 1935
EDITORIALS
75 - To A Creed
75 - "Be A Good Neighbor"
75 - Armistice Day
75 - Peace At Any Price?
76 - On Murdering Bach
76 - Thirty Million Jitters

ARTICLES
76 - The Gospel According to St. Mars. By John J. De Boer, A.M.
79 - The Social Concepition of the Kingdom. By Louis Berkhof, B.D.
82 - Christian and Pagan Ethics. By Gordon H. Clark, Ph.D.
85 - The State - Its Proper Function and Powers. By Peter Hoekstra, Ph.D.
88 - The League and a Just Peace. By Dorr Kuizema, LL.D.
89 - What Our Readers Think
90 - Reflections on Mysticism. By Jesse De Boer, A.M.

BOOK REVIEWS
91 - The Mind of Jesus
92 - Abraham Kuyper on Revelation
92 - Dutch Anabaptism and Liberalism
92 - Christian Truth and Ancient Culture
93 - Debunking "Applied Psychologists"
94 - A Taste of the King's English
94 - lnternational Calvinism
95 - Government and! Private Control

VERSE
81 - More Comfortable
88 - Of Beauty
95 - The Silent Sacrament
The Calvin Forum: October 1935

Calvin College and Seminary
Volume: 1, Issue: 3

CONTENTS - Vol. I. No. 3, OCTOBER, 1935
EDITORIALS
51 - How Dead Is Calvinism?
52 - Crime and God
52 - Chapman on Dante

ARTICLES
53 - The Church and Peace. By Bernard J. Mulder, D.D.
55 - The Modern Pacifism Movement.· By John Bovenkerk
58 - Our Readers Have the Floor. On War and Peace
59 - A Calvinistic Political Program. By Henry J. Ryskamp, Ph.D.
62 - Rembrandt, Vermeer, Frans Hals. By H.J. Van Andel, A.M.
63 - Reformed Preaching. By P. A. Hoekstra
66 - Ethiopia in the Shadows. By John A. Cremer, M.D.
67 - Science and Religion Complementary. By John B. Schoolland, A.M.

70 - CORRESPONDENCE

BOOK REVIEWS
71 - The Delights of Poetry
71 - Peter Brueghel Novelized
71 - Recent Dutch Fiction
71 - With Psychopaths
72- The Religious Situation in Germany
72 - Glimpses of Russia
72 - South America

VERSE
57 - Leaves
69 - The Defaced Image
70 - Autumn on the Hill
The Calvin Forum: September 1935

Calvin College and Seminary
Volume: 1, Issue: 2

CONTENTS - Vol. I. No. 2, SEPTEMBER, 1935
EDITORIALS
27 - We Thank God and Take Courage
27 - Why Is Labor Day?
27 - Forty-three Years Ago
28 - Back to Christian Fundamentals in Education
28 - To Clarify or to Mystify?
29 - The War and Peace Discussion
29 - Only an Instance

ARTICLES
30 - Youth, Impulse, and Discipline. By George Goris, Th.D.
33 - The Situation in the Far East. By Albertus Pieters, D.D.
36 - Encouraging W orReaders
38 - Denominationalist. By Ralph Stob, Ph.D.
40 - Ethiopia Cries to God. By Stuart Bergsma, M.D., D.T.M.

BOOKS
42 - A Christian Philosophy of Education
43 - Were the Puritans Averse to Music?
44 - South African Calvinism
44 - On Revelation
45 - Bible Chronology
45 - In a Psychopathic Hospital
46 - What Barthians Preach
47 - Prostatitis
47 - An American Novel

VERSE
29 - The Mystic
32 - Sufficiency
35 - Music
47 - God