Reformed Academic

A review of Keith C. Sewell, The Crisis of Evangelical Christianity: Roots, Consequences, and Resolutions (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2016). by Ryan McIlhenny When asked why he was not a C...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2017/12/why-i-am-not-evangelical-book-review.html

We wish to note an upcoming public lecture of interest to many of our readers. CHRISTIANITY, SCIENCE, AND HONESTY Monday 17 October 2016 6:00-7:30pm University of Waterloo (PHY 150, Physics ...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2016/10/christianity-science-and-honesty.html

While Reformed Academic has been quiet lately, we have remained active in thinking about our faith and science. This 18-minute Q Ideas lecture by Alister McGrath entitled “Overcoming the Faith ...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2016/09/mcgrath-overcoming-faith-and-science.html

Clarion describes itself as “The Canadian Reformed Magazine.” This does not mean, it is true, that it is the official denominational magazine of our churches. Nevertheless, many a reader, b...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2015/10/clarion-and-creation-science.html

In recent years, Synods from the Canadian Reformed Churches and the Free Reformed Churches (Australia), as well as popular writings in our church papers, have often expressed concern with the w...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2014/05/van-bekkum-responds-to-canadian-critics.html

(Harvard UP, 2007) Science and Secularization are two words often uttered in the same breath with the assumption that science is responsible for secularization. This misunderstanding had bee...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2013/07/secular-age-taylor.html

Edwin Walhout A recently retired Christian Reformed minister has published an article in his denomination’s magazine The Banner, entitled “Tomorrow’s Theology .” Edwin Walhout says on h...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2013/06/does-evolution-require-new-theology.html

> “The more I think about his work, the more I tend to see two C.S. > Lewises, who often appear together in the same book and article. One > is the Christian rati...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2013/05/lewis-apostle-sceptics-defender-faith.html

C.S. Lewis died half a century ago, in the fall of 1963. To mark this anniversary, British theologian Alister McGrath has left us a new biography of his famous compatriot.* It is of course not t...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2013/05/mcgrath-lewis.html

I have written an essay which addresses concerns expressed about the use of the term “inerrancy” in the Federation of Canadian and American Reformed Churches . In Clarion (2009) the Rev. We...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2013/04/inerrancy-in-canadian-and-american.html

In the Canadian Reformed churches (as in many evangelical churches) most people see evolution and creation as opposites, and evolution as automatically against Christianity. We would agree with t...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2013/03/wolves-in-sheeps-clothing-false.html

An explosion simply cannot create the order and beauty we see today. Let’s be reasonable: blowing up a  junkyard does not result in a  Boeing 747. Neither does dropping a bomb on a ...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2013/02/too-ridiculous-to-be-true.html

In December, we received a new comment on our “Introductory Post” which perhaps our readers may not have noticed, and in reply to our reply, we received a 4200-word essay. Instead of tucking...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-reader-responds-christianity-and.html

On 15 August 2012, Herman van Barneveld responded to my “More about Operation and Origin Science” (24 March 2012). He wrote that “Herman Bavinck would be rolling around in his grave…if ...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2012/11/vanderMeer-responds-to-vanBarneveld-re-Bavinck.html

The metaphor of the “two books” is well known among Reformed people, especially through the work of John Calvin. Article 2 of the Belgic Confession also makes use of it. True, it does not spe...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2012/06/books-of-scripture-and-nature.html

In their 1987 book entitled Origin Science, Norman Geisler and Kerby Anderson introduced a distinction between ‘operation science’ and ‘origin science’. They argued that operation or emp...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2012/03/more-about-origin-and-operation-science.html

It’s 7:45am and my middle-school-aged daughter, despite a few knocks on her door, still hasn’t appeared for breakfast. Since the bus comes in 25 minutes, I finally check her room, only to fin...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2012/03/origin-science-and-operation-science.html

Herman Dooyeweerd (1894–1977) was a Dutch philosopher in the neo-Calvinist tradition. He acquired international fame as one of the founders of a new school of Christian philosophy. Ed Echever...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2012/03/philosophical-foundations-of-bavinck.html

Abraham Kuyper It has frequently happened in the history of the church that Christians, fearful of the influence of a secular and hostile culture, closed themselves off from that culture and...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2012/03/wisdom-wonder-common-grace-in-science.html

A couple of years ago, I alerted our readers of what appeared to me to be a valuable conference. I am now repeating that alert, because Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia) is now h...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2012/02/wts-conference-on-science-and-faith.html

In connection with my recent post “Church and Modern Science,” Pastor Rob Schouten complained (in a public discussion on Facebook) that Reformed Academic “gives no evidence of grappling wi...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2011/12/evolution-and-bible.html

This post is inspired by a recently published report of the Barna Research Group that contains some alarming news about the number of young Christians who leave their churches. The research for ...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2011/10/church-and-modern-science.html

Andy Crouch has been mentioned on this blog a couple of times in the past year, in the context of literature and the arts . Today we commend to you this excellent piece entitled “What I Wis...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2011/10/scientists-and-their-place-in-church.html

The work of N.T. Wright, Anglican bishop of Durham and one of the world’s leading New Testament scholars, is the object of heated controversy among Reformed and evangelical theologians. This c...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-are-we-to-do-with-nt-wright.html

Thank you, Freda, for beginning an important discussion . In this post, I would like to highlight the connection between academics and church membership, by first telling my story and then giving...

https://reformedacademic.blogspot.com/2011/07/academics-and-church-membership.html