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This article was written by Prof. David J. Engelsma in the Vol 79 Issue 16 5/15/2003 of The Standard Bearer. _____________ The schism in the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC) in 1953 was … schism. This is often slighted, if not overlooked, in discussion of the controversy in the PRC in the early
The schism in the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC) in 1953 was…schism. This is often slighted, if not overlooked, in discussion of the controversy in the PRC in the early 1950s. Interest in the doctrinal issue tends to leave the schismatic aspect of the struggle in the shadows. Ignoring, or even
Before the fiftieth anniversary year of the great schism in the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC) passes, reflection on the doctrinal issue that occasioned the split is in order. Earlier editorials called for a denomination-wide remembrance of the schism, informed readers of a fine, new resource f
We certainly cannot ignore an event of such magnitude in our history. When the dust and fury of the ecclesiastical storm had settled, more than half, indeed nearly two thirds of the members and ministers of the PRC had left the denomination, most of them never to return. In 1952, on the eve of the s
In the hasty, ignominious departure into the Christian Reformed Church of those who had separated from the Protestant Reformed Churches, the God of church history expressed a preliminary judgment on the schism of 1953. One might have expected a long series of editorials in the Standard Bearer settin
Christian brother refused to shake hands with Christian brother if he were “on the other side” of the rapidly developing dispute. By 1952 the protests had been processed up to the synodical level, and Synod, in two separate sessions, verified the legality and validity of the contents of the Declarat
Although our churches have enjoyed 50 years of relative peace since the schism of 1953, the churches repeatedly face controversy. A man doesn’t need to be in the ministry long to face controversy—whether disputes over various issues, or opposition to the exercise of discipline, or the verbal rejecti
Before I pen my defense, please allow me to publicly protest against his repeated use of the term “schismatic” when he refers to the people who left us in the split of 1953. This to my mind has excited unnecessary antagonism in others. I have long since failed to see the Christian spirit expressed i
1953 stands for the doctrinal controversy that convulsed the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The controversy concluded with the schism in 1953 in which a majority of churches, members, and ministers left the PRC, soon to return to the Christian Reformed Church (