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The Calvin Forum: Winter 2025, Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum (2002- )

CONTENTS - Vol. 35., WINTER 2025

Main Features: 2 - Letter from the President

6 - Where are the Pastors?

10 - Formation of Leaders in a Liminal season

16 - Where do Pastors come from?

23 - The minister as a manager of the mysteries of God

29 - Pastors are there and will be there

34 - Who will disciple the next generation of Disciple-makers?

39 - Raising up Ministry Leaders from the next generation

42 - Training Ministry leaders from the next generation

48 - Hope in the ruins

55 - A journey through Seminary in …

The Calvin Forum: Summer 2025, Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum (2002- )

CONTENTS - Vol. 36., SUMMER 2025

Main Features: 2 - Letter from the President

6- How John Calvin Shaped Modern Seminary Education BY KARIN MAAG

12- Why Calvin? Naming a Seminary After a Theologian of Consolation BY SAM HA

18- Reformed Roots in the Global South: Indonesia’s Calvinist Heritage BY YUDHA THIANTO

24- Why Bavinck and Kuyper?

26- Herman Bavinck and the Mission of Calvin Seminary: Theology That Glorifies God BY JESSICA JOUSTRA

30- Why Abraham Kuyper’s Vision Still Shapes Reformed Theology and Education BY JORDAN BALLOR

34- Carrying Calvin’s Legacy: How Calvin Theological Seminary Equips Culturally Engaged Ministry …

Calvin Theological Seminary Academic Catalog 2025-2026, Calvin Theological Seminary

Seminary Academic Catalogs

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Calvin Bibliography 2024, Sam Ha

Calvin Bibliographies

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Calvin Theological Seminary Academic Catalog 2024-2025, Calvin Theological Seminary

Seminary Academic Catalogs

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The Calvin Forum: Summer 2024, Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum (2002- )

CONTENTS - Vol. 34., SUMMER 2024

Main Features: 5 - Letter from the President

8 - Calvin Theological Seminary: A living tradition of service for the 21st Century

12- Virtuous reasoning

15 - Why on Earth look to the church for help in society?

19 - Bringing the trouble to church: the call to Christ-Centered mental health support

22 - The need for effective leaders: Competency-based education on the rise

24 - A challenging journey: Preaching through competition, wariness, and trauma

Calvin Seminary News: 28 - Calvin Theological seminary partners with Missional training center

31 - Calvin Theological …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 56 No 2 - November 2021), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

From the Editor: Karin Maag - 229 / Articles: Wholehearted Commitment to Sound Pastoral Theology and Care: What Martin Bucer and John Calvin Can Teach Today’s Pastors by Stéphan van der Watt - 231 / A Variety of Voices: Reformed Theologians on the Theory of Evolution by Gijsbert van den Brink and Harry Cook - 265 /  Short Studies: The English-language Reception of K. H. Miskotte by Collin Cornell - 293 / The Scandal of Sheer Grace: When Mercy Offends by James K. A. Smith - 309 / Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: A Look Back after Thirty Years …

Traversing A Tightrope Between Ecumenism And Exclusivism, Retief Müller

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

During the first few decades of the 20th century, the Nkhoma mission of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa became involved in an ecumenical venture that was initiated by the Church of Scotland’s Blantyre mission, and the Free Church of Scotland’s Livingstonia mission in central Africa. Geographically sandwiched between these two Scots missions in Nyasaland (presently Malawi) was Nkhoma in the central region of the country. During a period of history when the DRC in South Africa had begun to regressively disengage from ecumenical entanglements in order to focus on its developing discourse of Afrikaner Christian nationalism, this venture …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 55 No 1 - April 2020), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

From the Editor: Karin Maag - 9 / Articles: John Webster: A Reformed Theologian on Revelation by Richard Fraser Brash - 11 / Psalm 88: A Validation to Vent by William L. Harris III - 41 / The Loss and Renewal of Calvin’s Eucharistic Theology in Reformed Churches by Leonard J. Vander Zee - 67 / Sermon: “Created to Be Like God”—A Sermon on Ephesians 4:22–24 by Cornelius Plantinga Jr. - 95 / Short Studies: The Role of the Letter and the Lector in Early Christian Liturgy: A Few Examples from Ephesians 1 by David Seal - 101 / The …

Book Review: Understanding World Christianity: The Vision And Work Of Andrew F. Walls, Joel Carpenter

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Based on: Understanding World Christianity: The Vision and Work of Andrew F. Walls. Edited by Burrows William R., Gornik Mark R., and McLean Janis A., Maryknoll, N.Y.

Human Freedom And The Invisible Church From The Viewpoint Of Bavinck's Pneumatology, Dong-Yaul Tae

CTS PhD Doctoral Dissertations

Although Reformed pneumatology is generally recognized by scholars of Calvin and Reformed confessions to be relatively well developed compared to the various pneumatologies of the Western theological tradition, it faces two important challenges. First, Reformed pneumatology is directly linked to the critique that Reformed soteriology’s accentuation of predestination and effectual grace leads to inevitable fatalism that ignores human freedom. This is because the ministry of the Holy Spirit is crucial in the Reformed understanding of the order of salvation beginning with regeneration and ending with glorification. Second, because the ministry of the Holy Spirit is a key to understanding Reformed …

Calvin Bibliography 2018, Paul Fields

Calvin Bibliographies

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Calvin Bibliography 2017, Paul Fields

Calvin Bibliographies

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Calvin Theological Seminary Forum: March 2016, Julius T. Medenblik, Cory Willson, Mary Vanden Berg, Sarah Schreiber

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum (2002- )

Articles
3 - From the President: How Now Shall We Live? by Jul Medenblik
4 - Every Believer Called to Mission by Cory Willson
6 - Prayers from the Missional Conference by Mary Vanden Berg and Sarah Schreiber
8 - Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics by John Bolt
9 - Meet Herman Bavinck by Jessica Driesenga
12 - Fostering Formation for Mission in Our Classrooms by Kristy Manion
15 - Is There a Future for Sacrifice? by Erin Zoutendam
16 - Taste and See Israel Trip by Paula Seales
18 - Church Growth and Its Challenges in Ethiopia by Fikre Norcha

Reformed Worship (Rw) 117 - Advent / Christmas (September 2015), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Features

Angels and Songs by Chris Schoon....3

Worship Amid Pain by Swee Hong Lim....10

The Word Became Flesh by Kyle Meyaard-Schaap....24

Articles

Editorial: Thinking Deeply by Joyce Borger....2

For Pastors: Missional Preaching for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany by Scott Hoezee....16

Q&A: Whatever Happened to the Second Coming? by John D. Witvliet....46

Resources

The Ghost of a Chosen Legacy by Jennie Stephenson....9

Who Do You Say I Am? by Maria Monteiro....18

Come and See: A Visual Choir by Lisle Gwynn....20

Light for Our Wilderness by Tracie Wiersma....28

Sonny's Cupcake Cafe by …

Covenant Of Redemption In The Theology Of Jonathan Edwards: The Nexus Between The Immanent And The Economic Trinity, Reita Yazawa

CTS PhD Doctoral Dissertations

Contemporary trinitarian theologies tend to hold that the doctrine of the Trinity, especially the immanent Trinity, became impractical, speculative, and abstruse over the years in the history of Christian theology. In response, the recent theologies of the Trinity explore various practical implications of the doctrine of the Trinity with emphasis on God’s economic work of redemption in history. However, the Reformed idea of the covenant of redemption helps us to reconsider whether the doctrine of the Trinity, even of the immanent Trinity, has been really so impractical. In this study, I argue that the Reformed idea of the covenant of …

Calvin Courier, Spring 2012, Number 49, Karin Maag

Calvin Courier

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Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 29 No 1 - April 1994), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Editorial: John Bolt - 9 / "Covenant" Overload in Reformed Theology by John H. Stek - 12 / The Continuing Conundrum: Calvin and the Conditionality of the Covenant by Peter A. Lillback - 42 / The Covenant of Works and the Stability of Divine Law in Seventeenth-Century Reformed Orthodoxy: A Study in the Theology of Herman Witsius and Wilhelmus à Brakel by Richard A. Muller - 75 / The Doctrine of the Abrogations in the Federal Theology of Johannes Cocceius (1603-1669) by W. J. Van Asselt - 101 / The Perkinsian Moment of Federal Theology by Michael McGiffert - …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 24 No 1 - April 1989), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Hermeneutical Issues Then and Now: The Janssen Case Revisited by David E. Holwerda - 7 / Common Grace by Herman Bavinck, translated by Raymond C. Van Leeuwen - 35 / The Dimension of Ultimacy and Theology of Culture: A Critical Discussion of Langdon Gilkey by Brian J. Walsh - 66 / Dutch Calvinist Philosophical Influences in North America by Richard J. Mouw - 93 / Scholia: The Water of Baptism and the Wine of Communion by James LaGrand - 121 / Jude and the Rhetorician: A Dialogue on the Rhetorical Nature of the Epistle of Jude by Thomas R. …

Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 10 No 1 - April 1975), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Articles: Celebration in a State of Trauma by Amry Vandenbosch - 5 / Current Trends in the Ecumenical Movement by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 28 / Book Reviews - Foundations of Mission Theology by Sedos (ed.); Mission Theology Today by John Power, reviewed by Robert Recker - 46 / The Long Day of Joshua and Six Other Catastrophes by Donald W. Patten, Ronald R. Hatch, and Loren C. Steinhauer, reviewed by Elco H. Oostendorp - 57 / The Mission of the Church by Edward Schillebeeckx, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 60 / The Full Harvest by C. H. …

The Calvin Forum: December 1951, Calvin College And Seminary

The Calvin Forum (1935-1956)

CONTENTS - VOLUME XVII, NO. V. DECEMBER, 1951
EDITORIALS
71 - The Miracles of the Incarnation. By Henry Schultze
72 - Some Factors Involved in the Problem of Race. By Cecil De Boer

ARTICLES
75 - What the Church Should Expect of Its Department of Missions. By Jacob T. Hoogstra
79 - Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology. By James Daane
83 - Aims and Purposes of Christian Trade Unionism. By W. F. de Gaay Foortman
88 - The Doctrine of the Deity of Christ in the Early Church. By John H. Bratt

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS
91 - News from South Africa. …