Calvin Synod Herald, 2003 (104. évfolyam, 3-12. szám)

2003-03-01 / 3-4. szám

CALVIN SYNOD HERALD 7 The War on Terrorism and the Terror of God by Lee Griffith Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 255 Jefferson Avenue, S.E. Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503 2002 xv=399pp Hard Cover Lee Griffith had completed this manuscript a year before Sep­tember 11, 2001. Only a brief statement on the first page of the Preface and the final chapter titled Postscript were written since the attack on the Twin Towers. The book was actually written in response to the cruise missile attack the US launched in August 1998 in Sudan and Afghanistan. The chapters are arranged as “a dialogue with newspaper, his­tory, and Bible.” The first section of each chapter “engages the ‘news­paper,’ the current and recent events.” The second section of each chapter presents a case study from church history. The third sec­tion offers exegesis and/or theological direction. Over all content of the book is divided into five major sections. First there is the meaning of Terror. In the second chapter, Terror and the Death of Community, the reader sees the dreadful price of terrorism. Chapter three explores the Ethics of Terrorism. That leads easily into the fourth chapter, The Terror of God. Chapter five takes the reader Beyond Terror and Counter terrorism. In a postscript, September 11: The Terror and the Hope sounds the note of hope in spite of terrorism and counter terrorism. “And above all, take hope in Christ crucified and resurrected... It is the promise of the resurrection which renders null and void the victo­ries of those who shed blood. ...Terror surrounded the life of Jesus like a great parentheses.... But Jesus was not contained by the ter­ror. God’s messengers proclaimed for all who would hear: ‘Do not be afraid.” (pg278) Copious end notes, a bibliography, and an index conclude this book. The author is a teacher, author and social activist who is pres­ently working in Elmira, New York with a community mental health program. The Easter Cave by Carol Wedeven illustrated by Len Ebert Concordia Publishing House 3558 South Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, Missouri 63118 dorise@cphnet.org 2001 28pp Hard cover Designed to be used with children 4 to 7, this beautifully illus­trated book tells the story of the cave where Joseph or Arimathea placed the Body of Jesus. The story is told in verse which repeats the same words over so that the child can understand. The illustra­tions are exquisite and remind the reader that this comes in the spring time when new life is bursting all about. It reinforces the hope that the resurrection brings. The bird’s nest in the corner holds three eggs as Joseph lays the body in the tomb and at the end three active little birds are breaking their shells in the nest. Islam and the Hungarian Confession of Faith Rev. Prof. Dr. EN. Lee (Continued from our Jan/Feb. 2003 issue) As the Swiss-American German-Reformed Theologian Rev. Pro­fessor Dr. Philip Schaff wrote in his Creeds of Christendom The Hungarian Confession or Confessio Czengerina was prepared and adopted at a Reformed Synod held at Czenger in 1557 or 1558, and printed in 1570 at Debreczin. Debreczin is a royal free city... with about fifty thousand inhabitants, and contains the principal Calvin­­istic college of the kingdom... (In 1849... the independence of Hun­gary was there declared - in the Reformed Church) ... “It treats, in brief articles or propositions, of the Triune God, of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Scripture designations of the Holy Spirit, [and[] the rules for explaining the phrases concerning God [etc.]... It is preceded by a strong Biblical argument against the Anti- Trinitarians... who had spread in Transylvania... This Confession presents some original and vigorous features,” especially against Islamic Unitarianism etc. It is by far the greatest Trinitarian Creed ever written, and of great use for the elechthic approach to Islam. Thus it reads: “True Confession of Faith taken from the Word of God and unani­mously taken down and handed over at Czenger. 1.) Regarding the one and only God - He is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 2.) Regard­ing the only-begotten Son of God - from all eternity 3.) Regarding the Holy Spirit - the one and only and true God and Lord Who has life within Himself. 4.) Regarding the words and expressions - which the Holy Spirit of God uses through the Prophets and Apostles. 5.) Regarding the rules - which explain the expressions used by God. 6.) Regarding the Law and the Gospel - in the Church. 7.) Regard­ing the Customs and Sacraments of the Church - on Infant Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. 8.) Regarding Christian liberty in food and drink and clothing - and the places of ecclesiastical meeting. 9.) Regarding God’s having no respect to persons - in that He blesses one and hardens another. 10.) Regarding the root cause of sin - and respecting the Son of God as the Mediator. 11.) Regarding the re­moval of abominable heretics - and Antichrists. “These unique proofs derived from the Bible about the one and only God, destroy all the endeavors of the Antitrinitarians: 1.) There is one and only God - Jah, Jehovah. Deuteronomy 4 & 5 & 6. 2.) The one and only God it is - Who is El Shaddai - knowing every­thing preveniently. Genesis 17 & 28 & 31 & 35 and Isaiah 25 & 40 & 4L 3.) The one and only God it is - Who made both Testaments - and Who is God the Father. Jeremiah 31 and Deuteronomy 5 & 6. 4.) The one and only God it is - Who is of all things the Creator - and the Maintainer. Isaiah 40 & 43 & 55 and Deuteronomy 4 & 5 & 6 & 32. 5.) The one and only God it is - Who is Scrutinizer of hearts - and of innards. Jeremiah 10 & 27 and Psalm 7 and Revelation 1 & 2 and Acts 12. 6.) The one and only God it is - Who led forth His people - out of Egypt. Exodus 5 & 6 & 20 & 32 and Deuteronomy 4 & 5 &6 & 10 & 30 & 32 and Psalms 78 & 95. 7.) The one and only God it is - Who performed miracles in E gypt - and Who was tempted, vexed, and challenged in the desert. Psalms 95 & 102 and Exodus 20 & 23 & 32 and Numbers 23 and Deuteronomy 32 and First Corin­thians 10. “But the Son and the Holy Spirit did all these things. Isaiah 63. The Angel of His countenance and the Holy Spirit led them forth; they vexed His Holy Spirit; the one and only God led them forth. Deuteronomy 32. The Son and the Holy Spirit led them forth, and were tempted. First Corinthians 10 and Isaiah 63 and Psalms 68 &

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