Modern Thinkers: Nietzsche
What is it that agitates Nietzsche so deeply? He is a child of his time, and his time was the calm before the storm. He stands, in that calm, as the prophet of the coming century, our century.
What is it that agitates Nietzsche so deeply? He is a child of his time, and his time was the calm before the storm. He stands, in that calm, as the prophet of the coming century, our century.
The lectures and essays contained in this book will serve, in a modest way, to meet a need that exists for English-language information about the life and work of the nineteenth-century Dutch historian and statesman Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801-1876).
In this classic work, the historian, statesman and publicist Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801-76) gave an account of his “anti-revolutionary and christian-historical convictions.”
The content of this book is the subject matter of a course of lectures I gave in 1971 as guest lecturer at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
This report outlines some of the topics that were discussed during a two-week seminar by thirteen participants who, with one exception, were teachers of mathematics from grade 1 all the way up to college level.
A madman once ran into the market place calling out, “I seek God.” The bystanders, typifying the majority of modern Western men who do not live as if they really believed in the living God of the Bible, were vastly amused and said to the maniac, “Why? Is God lost?”
What indeed has Christianity to say to the temporal activities and institutions of modern men? What is the relation of the Christian to the modern world?
All mankind was represented in Adam and all man sinned against God in Adam at the beginning of history.
Must we as Christians give up reasoning with unbelievers? If we do then we must also give up preaching or witnessing to unbelievers.
The biblical gospel of sovereign, saving grace, which modern man needs, is best reproduced in the Reformed Confessions.