Non-Functional by Reason of Losing the Marks

Dear Prof. Hoeksema: You quote Rev. Kuyvenhoven in the Standard Bearer of Nov. 15, 1981 as having said in the Banner editorial of Oct. 26, 1981: "The views of the Reformers are no longer ours. And the kind of thinking about the church that is recorded in the Belgic Confession is no longer functional in the Christian Reformed Church." Further, you quote Kuyvenhoven that "the church had an artificial unity before" the time of the Reformation, but that "it has suffered a genuine disunity ever...