The Office of Professors of Theology

This article, so it was shown (issue for April 15, 1934), is the fruitage of John Calvin's influence. Cal­vin's view was that the office of Professor of Theology is in the narrow sense a distinct church office, the state of which equals that of the offices of ministers of the gospel, of presbyter and of deacon. The Scripture Cal­vin appealed to in support of this view is Eph. 4:11: "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some pastors and teachers." Cal­vin...