Jelte Numan
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Hermeneutics Conference, Hamilton, January 2014
Why all this sudden interest in hermeneutics? It’s because our Dutch sister churches, the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands (RCN), are reinterpreting Scripture in order to make it more acceptable...
“Read what it says” by T L Bruinius (about the new hermeneutics)
Read what it says, leave alone what you read! This is the old reformed starting point for how we should read the Bible. It is the most important rule. If we abandon...
Rachel’s Grief
Matthew 2: 17, 18: “Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah: Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted.”The prophecy of Rachel’s grief, says...
Churchism in Kampen – liberty above all things
Prof. A. de Bruijne, in his column in N(ederlands) D(agblad) of November 9, 2013 under the title “Delen in de gescheurde kerk” (Sharing in the torn church), calls on readers to share his views about...
Press Review
Is the church institute or organism, visible or invisible?
Reformed Perspective of 1 November 2013 placed a couple of articles by Rev W Bredenhof about Abraham Kuyper, a powerful figure...