De Reformatie Ceases Publication / The Banner’s Mandate Reevaluated by the CRC / Removal of the Gideon Bibles / The Onward March of ISIS

This article by Daniel Holstege commemorates the final publication of De Reformatie (1920-2014), the influential Dutch Reformed church paper edited by Klaas Schilder, and recounts the significant theological dialogue and eventual rupture between Schilder's Liberated Reformed Churches and Herman Hoeksema's Protestant Reformed Churches in the early 1950s over the doctrine of the covenant. The piece highlights how doctrinal differences, particularly regarding the unconditional covenant articulated in the PRC's Declaration of Principles, ultimately ended hopes for closer denominational ties between these two Reformed bodies.