29 December 2021

Wednesday, December 29, 2021, 21:11

This news item was posted in Presbyterians Week category.

“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel 33:6]

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” [Ephesians 6:12]

Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] British Colombia Pastor Refuses to Turn Away the Unvaccinated

[2] The Confessional Presbyterian Volume 17 (2021) Available for Preorder

Additional Articles of Interest

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[1] British Colombia Pastor Refuses to Turn Away the Unvaccinated

By Harley Sims, True North

One week after the Northern Health region of British Columbia announced that places of worship would need to turn away unvaccinated worshippers to resume in-person services, another northern B.C. pastor remains defiant.

Simon Lievaart of Bethel Reformed Church in Smithers was fined CA$2300 in May for conducting in-person services despite a government ban. Places of worship reopened across B.C. later that month, but Northern Health shut down its regions’ churches again in October amidst rising cases of COVID-19.

+ True North, 1811 4 Street Southwest, Suite 485, Calgary, Alberta T2S 1W2, Canada, Contact Page

+ United Reformed Churches in North America, c/o the Rev. Ralph A. Pontier, 118 Holland Drive, Pella, Iowa 50219, 641-230-3880, statedclerk@urcna.org

[2] The Confessional Presbyterian Volume 17 (2021) Available for Preorder

The 2021 17th issue of The Confessional Presbyterian, our “Bavinck” issue, is at the book maker and we expect to be in print in late January at the earliest. If you missed the big announcement earlier this year, the journal is now under the wing of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary as publisher, which ensures the journal will carry on, and as is, well into the future beyond the current editors’ tenures into the next generation of confessional Presbyterians. Below is the contents of the 2021 issue. You may pre-order a copy from GPTS (back issues remain available at cpjournal.com). As always, your interest makes this premier print journal of confessional Reformed theology and practice possible. Thank you!

Chris Coldwell

General Editor

The Confessional Presbyterian Journal

(Note, v10, the “Machen” issue, is down to the last copies and will soon join v1 and v8 as out of print. There are a few copies left at a higher rate for that reason).

Table of Contents for Volume 17 (2021)

Editorial

Articles

Herman Bavinck: An Interpreter of Modernity by James Eglinton

Hope for the Modern Self: On Bavinck’s “Christian Science” by Cory C. Brock

Locating the Mystery: Bavinck and Van Til on Immutability and Anthropomorphism By Lane G. Tipton

Herman Bavinck’s “The Leading Ideas of Calvin’s Institutes” By Gregory Parker Jr.

Herman Bavinck, the Two Kingdoms, and Reformed Social Ethics by Ron Gleason

“A Pillar and Buttress of the Truth” Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Inaugural Address, March 11, 2021 By Jonathan L. Master

Judges 6–8:32: Gideon By Thomas G. Reid Jr.

University Studies and Ordination to the Ministry of George Gillespie (1613–1648) By Chris Coldwell

Samuel Rutherford and the Theology and Practice of Preaching by Matthew A. Vogan

In Pursuit of an Owenian Pastoral Theology II: The Pastor and his Work according to John Owen by Angelo O. Valle

“Creeding” Between the Lines Animus Imponentis & Confessional Integrity in the OPC’s Creation Report by Lowell A. Ivey

Winnowing Fork or Harvest? A Paedobaptist Assessment of the Credobaptist Interpretation of Jeremiah 31 as seen in Stephen Wellum’s “Baptism and the Relationship Between Covenants” By Robert D. Golding

Soundly Converted: Enchurchment as a Feature of Christian Conversion in Evangelistic Practice by Zachary Groff

Reviews & Responses:

John Bower, The Confession of Faith: A Critical Text and Introduction (Alan D. Strange)

151?Robert C. Bishop, et al., Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins: Cosmology, Geology, and Biology in Christian Perspective (Wes Bredenhof)

153?Frank J. Smith, Race, Church and Society (R. E. Knodel, Jr.)

159?Cornelis Van Dam, In the Beginning: Listening to Genesis 1 and 2 (Benjamin Shaw)

160?Gyeongcheol Gwon, Christ and the Old Covenant: Francis Turretin (1623–1687) on Christ’s Suretyship under the Old Testament, Reformed Historical Theology, v. 51 (Thomas Haviland-Pabst)

162?Theodore Beza, A Learned Treatise on the Plague, Translated by Edward Percival (1665), Modernized with an Introduction by Bennie Castle—Ludwig Lavater, Disease, Scarcity, and Famine: A Reformation Perspective on God and Plagues, Translated and Edited by Michael Hunter—Matthew A. Vogan, Matthew J. Hyde, Worship and Witness in Crisis: Has the Church Failed the Covid Test?—Ernest Springer III, Joel E Yeager, Daniel O’Roark, Coronavirus and the Leadership of the Christian Church: A Sacred Trust Broken (Isaac T. Overton)

163?Guy Prentiss Waters, J. Nicholas Reid, and John R. Muether, eds., Covenant Theology: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives (Lane Keister)

168?Vern S. Poythress, The Mystery of the Trinity: A Trinitarian Approach to the Attributes of God (Scott Cook)

173?Daniel I. Block, Covenant: The Framework of God’s Grand Plan of Redemption (Harrison Perkins)

175?Books In Brief. Reviewed by Frank J. Smith:??Joel R. Beeke and Nick Thompson, Pastors and Their Critics: A Guide to Coping with Criticism in the Ministry

177?Darby A. Strickland, Is It Abuse? A Biblical Guide to Identifying Domestic Abuse and Helping Victims

177?Christopher Watkin, Gilles Deleuze

178?Shao Kai Tseng, Immanuel Kant

178?Robert Rollock, translated and introduced by Casey B. Carmichael, Commentary on Ephesians

178?John Flavel, abridged by J. Stephen Yuille, Christ and His Threefold Office

179?John Flavel, abridged by J. Stephen Yuille, Christ Humbled Yet Exalted

180?Scott Christensen, What About Evil? A Defense of God’s Sovereign Glory

180?John D. Currid, The Case for Biblical Archaeology: Uncovering the Historical Record of God’s Old Testament People

182?John Shower, The Lord’s Supper: Doctrines, Encouragements, and Duties

183 Psallo: Psalm 32:1–7

186 Antiquary: The James Durham MSS IV: Lectures on the Revelation of John

233 Bibliography

243 Et Mortuus Adhuc Per Eam Loquitur: Thomas M’Crie’s Last Sermon

248 The Editors

In Brief: Death of the Rev. Dr. M’Crie (56–60)

In Brief: Lines on the Death of Dr. M’Crie (80)

In Brief: Extract: Thomas M’Crie’s Statement of the Difference, Brief View of the Evidence for the Exercise of Civil Authority about Religion (1871) (134–136)

In Brief: David Dickson on Psalm 32:6–7 (184)

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Additional Articles of Interest

– Video: Ex-Pfizer Chief Scientist Dr. Michael Yeadon: Mass Murder with Vaccine Passports/Top Up Vaccines

– Video: Experimental Injections. “Biggest Crimes Against Humanity Ever Committed.” Anna de Bouisseret Explains Who Will be Held Liable Under the Law

– Covid Vaccines “Most Dangerous Biological Medicinal Product Rollout in Human History,” Says Dr. Peter Mccullough

– Pathology Results Show Ninety-Three Percent of People Who Died after Being Vaccinated Were Killed by the Vaccine

– CDC Admits COVID Tests Are Invalid

– How the Endless Boosters Will Destroy Immune Function

– The Jackboots Have Arrived – NYPD Begin Arresting Unvaccinated Americans During Indoor Covid Compliance Checks

– Study: At least 400,000 people in America Have Died from Covid “Vaccines”