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We use the terminology "professor of theology" in the broad sense, meaning that we include not only those who specifically teach in the department of theology or dogmatics at the theological school but all the professors of the various disciplines. It is the position of our churches that a professo
Prof. Decker is professor of Practical Theology in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. Some may think that the title of this article is a contradiction in terms. By theology we mean the doctrine of God, man, Christ, salvation, the church, and the last things. In other words, the true doctrine of Holy
The task of the professors of theology is to expound the Holy Scriptures and to vindicate sound doctrine against heresies and errors. By the very failure of many professors to adhere to and fulfill this calling, many once illustrious and reputable institutions of theology have reverted from seminari
The office of Professors of Theology is to expound the Holy Scriptures and to vindicate sound doctrine against heresies and errors. 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
A view of the Bible as human record of religious thought and experience. 4. God working only in natural human development (e. g., evolution) for the progress of the human race. 5. A theology based on experience rather than revelation. 6. Denial of the fall, depravity, guilt removed by atonement, and
Scripture speaks of a personal, experiential knowledge of God that is the knowledge of faith. But the knowledge of faith that is personal and experiential consists of "a certain knowledge, whereby I hold for truth all that God has revealed in His Word."² But to such strange ideas, set forth with th
There is an irony here. Cocceius lived in an age of some looseness in Sabbath observance, and he himself, in spite of his views, kept the Sabbath holy. His theology did not affect his life in this respect. Nevertheless, his views had their effect, and the fruit of his views is seen today, even among
Then he distinguishes between theology” and dogmatics” thus: “Theology as science . . . guides the language of the church, so far as it completely reminds her that in all circumstances it is fallible human work . . . it is nothing but human language about God’ ” (2, 3). This language” must, he insis