The best of The Reformed journal / edited by James D. Bratt & Ronald A. Wells.

Contributor Bratt, James D., 1949-

Imprint:Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2011.

Descriptionxviii, 325 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:PART I. 1951-1962: OPENING BELL: The cathedral / Harry R. Boer -- CHURCH AND THEOLOGY: Common grace versus individualism / James Daane -- The sacrament of community / Lewis B. Smedes -- EDUCATION: Academic freedom at Calvin / Henry Stob -- Thoughts for teachers / Henry Zylstra -- Pitch your tents toward Sodom / Ernest Van Vugt -- RELIGION AND SOCIETY: The American way of life / John Timmerman -- The Graham crusades: shall we participate? / Sidney Rooy -- Reformed does not mean apartheid / Harry R. Boer -- Calvinists and Democrats / Lester DeKoster -- CLOSING CONTROVERSY: God so loved... ALL men! / Harold Dekker -- Does God love all men alike? / Peter De Jong -- REFLECTIONS: He bore our griefs / Jacobus Revius -- Hospitality / Henry Zylstra -- PART II: 1963-1977: OPENING BELL: In Memoriam [on JFK] / Lester DeKoster -- ON THE CHURCH IN SOCIETY: The evangelicals and the social question / Lewis B. Smedes -- What social structure? / Carl F.H. Henry -- Where do we differ? / Lewis B. Smedes -- The church and social specifics / Richard J. Mouw -- RACE AND RIGHTS: Mississippi versus... Meredith? / Lester DeKoster -- The answer is blowing in the wind / James Daane -- We went to Alabama / Edson Lewis, Jr. -- Humanitarian snobs? / George Stob -- Good Friday 1968 / Hugh Koops -- THEOLOGY: Who is 20th-century man? / Roderick Jellema -- Barth and the abiding question / Lewis B. Smedes -- Complaint of a conservative / Howard G. Hageman -- Misplaced battle lines / Bernard Ramm -- EDUCATION AND THE ARTS: Accommodation / Nicholas Wolterstoff -- In memoriam: T.S. Eliot / George H. Harper -- Twenty years after the bomb / Steve J. Van Der Weele -- The piety of despair: Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light / Bernard Van't Hul -- On looking at paintings / Nicholas Wolterstoff -- Of cynics and hacks: Scorsese's Taxi Driver / Marlin Van Elderen -- POLITICS: Fundamentalism & political rightism / Henry Stob -- Graham and hope / Richard J. Mouw -- The Pentagon Papers / Daniel H. Benson -- Watergate and the American presidency / Ronald A. Wells -- The Palestinian issue / Bert DeVries -- VIETNAM: The war nobody wants / Lewis B. Smedes -- The war that never ends / Lewis B. Smedes -- We are the casualties / Daniel H. Benson -- "Peace, peace..." / Richard J. Mouw -- ON GENDER: Who needs women's lib? / Karen Helder De Vos -- Abortion: the burden of proof / Lewis B. Smedes -- Naval theology / James Daane -- The right-to-life amendment / Henry Stob -- Sexism: a Random (House) sampling / Kathryn Lindskoog -- COMMUNITY: A word of thanks for a friend / Lewis B. Smedes -- Confessions of an ex-WASP / Stanley Wiersma -- Babe Ruth and the national pastime / John J. Timmerman -- Cemetery / Jon Pott -- REFLECTIONS: God with us / R. Dirk Jellema -- There were these shepherds, abiding... / Roderick Jellema -- PART III. 1978-1990: OPENING BELL: Au revoir / Marlin Van Elderen -- A tradition unbroken / Jon Pott -- CHURCH AND THEOLOGY: Like a shot to the heart / Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. -- Getting God's joke [on Frederick Buechner] / Roy M. Anker -- On being a reformed Catholic / Howard G. Hageman -- Calvinist links / Ronald A. Wells -- Intimation / Jon Pott -- ON EVANGELICALISM: He leadeth me / R. Dirk Jellema -- Evangelicalism: a fantasy / Lewis B. Smedes -- Star wars in Beulah Land / George M. Marsden -- Commemorating a warrior [on J. Gresham Machen] / Mark A. Noll -- Francis Schaeffer's jeremiad / Ronald A. Wells -- Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984) / George M. Marsden -- With Jews in a hot tub / Ronald A. Wells -- ON GENDER: Does God listen to girls? women in society and the church / Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen -- A prayer to Mary / Richard J. Mouw -- Thoughts of my mother's garden / Evelyn Diephouse -- RELIGION AND SOCIETY: A prophet at Harvard [on Alexandr Solzhenitsyn] / Edward E. Ericson, Jr. -- Of prairies and patriotism / Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen -- Just war and irony in American history / James C. Juhnke -- Black and reformed: burden or challenge? / Allan Boesak -- An evening in Amman / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- An eschatological moment / Leonard Sweetman -- CREATION CARE: The virgin and the dynamo / George M. Marsden -- Re-fighting Jericho / Kathryn Lindskoog -- Where in the world? / Virginia Stem Owens -- Fire on my mind / Lionel Basney -- THE ARTS: An evniable satirist [on Peter De Vries] / John J. Timmerman -- The uses of Lewis / Kathryn Lindskoog -- Robert Lowell (1917-1977) / Jack Ridl -- Children of the living God [on Toni Morrison, Beloved] / Susan Van Zanten Gallagher -- Grace notes [on Tender Mercies] / Roy M. Anker -- REFLECTIONS: Born to raise the sons of earth / Mark A. Noll -- On having the grace to live contingently / Stanley Hauerwas -- Who is in control? / M. Howard Rienstra -- Risen indeed: a story / Lawrence Dorr.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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