Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith

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Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith. By Peter E. Gillquist. Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1989. 185 pp. Paper, $9.95. Gillquist and a number of other former Campus Crusade leaders started churches and then a denomination called the Evangelical Orthodox Church. Later the whole denomination, some two thousand people spread
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We Believe In: Assurance of Salvation

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It is a pleasure to be asked to write a guest article in Arthur Farstad’s fine series, “We Believe In.” Those readers who miss finding Dr. Farstad here will be glad to read his review of the New RSV elsewhere in this issue of the GES Journal. I. Introduction It is also a privilege to
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Evangelism in the Early Church

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Evangelism in the Early Church. By Michael Green. Grand Rapids: Win. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1970. 349 pp. Paper, $7.95. Evangelism in the Early Church by Edward Michael Bankes Green has been around for some time. However, since this book will be of great interest to the readers of JOTGES, it justifies a review. To
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The New Revised Standard Version: A Review

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I. Introduction In May of this year the latest and most thoroughgoing revision of the RSV appeared, sponsored by the National Council of Churches. I must confess that I have been having my morning devotions in the NRSV for the last several months.1 The reason for this is that I have been asked by our
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A Voice from the Past: Assurance and Doubt

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This extract is taken from the Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book III, Chapter II, Sections 16-19. John Allen’s translation is from the original Latin and collated with Calvin’s last edition in French. The punctuation and spelling have been only slightly modernized. Ed. JOHN CALVIN† I. Section 16 The principal hinge on which faith turns
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Grace in the Arts: Grace Abounding in Great Literature

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Jim Townsend* Essayist and art critic John Ruskin (in Modern Painters) penned: “I believe that the root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian church has ever suffered has been rooted in the effort… to earn rather than to receive… salvation….”1 In other words, Ruskin attributes heresy squarely to a misunderstanding of
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The Shroud and the Controversy

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The Shroud and the Controversy. By Kenneth E. Stevenson and Gary R. Habermas. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1990. 257 pp. Cloth, $15.95. For those unfamiliar with the subject, the Shroud of Turin is a burial cloth dating back many centuries which contains a three-dimensional image-that is, with depth of field-of a man who was killed
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You Are Chosen: The Priesthood of All Believers

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You Are Chosen: The Priesthood of All Believers. By Herschel Hobbs. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990. 123 pp. Cloth, $15.95. As pastor of a Southern Baptist Church, I was deeply interested in Hobbs’s presentation of the priesthood of the believer for two reasons. First, Herschel Hobbs is a definitive writer of Southern Baptist thought.
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Free Speech or Propaganda?

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Free Speech or Propaganda? By Marlin Maddoux. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1990. 224 pp. Paper, $9.95. Maddoux begins with his personal reaction to the television coverage of the tragic events at Kent State University in May 1970. That event started him thinking that the American news establishment was conducting what he calls a “really big
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