Holding Fast this Foundation

Outright hostility to a creed does not appear out of nowhere. Such hostility can be seen in a letter that was published in a Reformed magazine earlier this year. Writing in response to an article that encouraged commemoration of the Canons of Dordt, the letter writer stated that “The 400th anniversary would be an excellent time to ditch the rigid, exclusionary, and insular Canons of Dort.” A good place for the Canons would be “on the history book shelf.”1   How can it be that such a view arises...