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Abortion and the Christian [Published in The Presbyterian Guardian 39 (Nov., 1970), 78-80. Used with permission.]
Abortion and the Lonely Modern Woman [Published in The New Community 2 (Jan., 1976), 1-5. Used with permission.]
The Law, Theology and Abortion [Published in The Christian Lawyer 4 (Winter, 1972), 24-27. Used with permission.]
Ministries of Mercy to the Unborn
Operation Rescue: Case Study on Civil Disobedience
Review of Beverly Harrison's Our Right to Choose [Published in Eternity 35 (Oct., 1984), 43-44.]
Review of Gardner's Abortion: The Personal Dilemma [Orignally published in Banner of Truth 109 (Oct., 1972), 31-32. Used with permission.]
When in the Course of Human Events Does Civil Disobedience Become Necessary?
The Mystery of Creaturely Otherness
“A Blind Beggar Becomes an Apologist,” In Covenant 4:3 (June, 2001), 1-2.
Apologetics [Published in Dictionary of Theological Interpretation of Scripture. Used with permission.]
Epistemological Perspectives and Evangelical Apologetics (delivered to ETS, Far West, Biola University , April 23, 1982)
Response to 'Redeeming the Arts' [Published in Creative Spirit 4.2 (Nov., 2005), 19-21. Used by permission.]
Ethics, Preaching, and Biblical Theology
Christianity and Christian Epistemology [An article reviewing John L. Pollock’s Contemporary Theories of Knowledge (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1986). Originally published in Westminster Theological Journal 52:1 (Spring, 1990), 131-141. Used with permission.]
Comment on Anthony C. Thiselton's "Speaking and Hearing"
Muller on Theology [Originally in WTJ 56 (Spring, 1994), 133-151. Used with permission.]
Review of Achinstein and Barker's The Legacy of Logical Positivism [Originally published in WTJ 34:2 (May, 1972), 199-201. Used with permission.]
Review of Andrew McGowan's The Divine Spiration of Scripture
Review of Armstrong's Calvinism and the Amyraut Heresy [Originally published in WTJ 34:2 (May, 1972), 186-192. Used with permission.]
Review of Benjamin Farley's The Providence of God [WTJ 51:2 (Fall, 1989), 397-400.]
Review of Beverly Harrison's Our Right to Choose [Published in Eternity 35 (Oct., 1984), 43-44.]
Review of Bouma's Christian Faith, Health, and Medical Practice
Review of Colin Brown's Miracles and the Critical Mind [Originally published in Westminster Theological Journal 47:1 (Spring, 1985), 140-146. Used with permission.]
Review of Corduan's Handmaid to Theology [Originally published in WTJ 45:2 (Fall, 1983), 441-448. Used with permission.]
Review of David Van Drunen's A Biblical Case for Natural Law
Review of Esther Meek's Longing to Know [Originally published in Presbyterion 29:2 (Fall, 2003). Used with permission.]
Review of Gardner's Abortion: The Personal Dilemma [Orignally published in Banner of Truth 109 (Oct., 1972), 31-32. Used with permission.]
Review of Geisler's Biblical Errancy: An Analysis of its Philosophical Roots [Originally published in WTJ 45:2 (Fall, 1983), 441-448. Used with permission.]
Review of Greg Bahnsen's Theonomy in Christian Ethics [Originally published in The Presbyterian Journal 36 (Aug. 31, 1977), 18. Used with permission.]
Review of Griffin's Evil Revisited [Published in Calvin Theological Journal 27:2 (Nov., 1992), 435-38. Used with permission.]
Review of H. Schlossberg's Idols For Destruction [Originally published in WTJ 46:2 (Fall, 1984), 438-444. Used with permission.]
Review of Harron, Burnside, and Beauchamp's Health and Human Values
Review of High's New Essays on Religious Language [Orginally published in WTJ 33:1 (Nov., 1970), 126-131. Used with permission.]
Review of Holmer's The Grammar of Faith [Originally published in WTJ 42:1 (Fall, 1979), 219-231. Used with permission.]
Review of John Beardslee's Reformed Dogmatics [Originally published in The Presbyterian Journal 36 (Oct. 5, 1977), 19-20. Used with permission.]
Review of Kaufman's Systematic Theology: A Historicist Perspective [Originally published in WTJ 32:1 (Nov., 1969), 119-124. Used with permission.]
Review of Kelsey's The Uses of Scripture in Recent Theology [Originally published in WTJ 39:2 (Spring, 1977), 328-353. Used with permission.]
Review of Lindbeck's The Nature of Doctrine [Originally published in The Presbyterian Journal 43 (Feb. 27, 1985), 11-12. Used with permission.]
Review of Magnus Verbrugge's Alive: An Enquiry into the Origin and Meaning of Life [Originally published in Westminster Theological Journal 47:2 (Fall, 1985), 373-379. Used with permission.]
Review of Margaret Howe's Women in Church Leadership
Review of Michael Horton's Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
Review of McLaren's A Generous Orthodoxy [Originally published in Act 3 Review 14.3 (2005), 97-105. Used with permission.]
Review of The Nature and Extent of Biblical Authority (Christian Reformed Church, Report 44)
Review of Ogden's On Theology [Published in Westminster Theological Journal 50:1 (Spring, 1988), 157-165. Used with permission.]
Review of Paul Helm's Belief Policies [A shorter version of this review was published in Westminster Theological Journal 57:1 (Spring, 1995), 248-251.]
Review of Paul Helm's The Providence of God [Published in Westminster Theological Journal 56:2 (Fall, 1994), 438-442.]
Review of Paul Richardson's Paul's Ethic of Freedom [Originally published in Transformation 1:4 (Oct.-Dec. 1984), 28. Used with permission.]
Review of Peter Enns' Inspiration and Incarnation
Review of R. Scott Clark's Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice
Review of Robert A. Morey's A Christian Handbook for Defending the Faith [Originally published in The Presbyterian Journal 38 (Feb. 20, 1980). Used with permission.]
Review of Robert Lightner's Evangelical Theology: a Survey and Review [Published in Westminster Theological Journal 50:1 (Spring, 1988), 222-226. Used with permission.]
Review of Rushdoony'sThe Institutes of Biblical Law [Originally published in WTJ 38:2 (Winter, 1976), 195-217. Used with permission.]
Review of Smith's Questions of Religious Truth [Originally published in WTJ 30:2 (May, 1968), 241-242. Used with permission.]
Review of Sontag and Bryant's God: The Contemporary Discussion
Review of Van Buren's The Edges of Language [Originally published in WTJ 36:1 (Fall, 1973), 106-111. Used with permission.]
Review of Wenham's Christ and the Bible [Originally published in Banner of Truth 118-119 (July-August, 1973), 39-41. Used with permission.]
Review of White's Van Til: Defender of the Faith [Originally published in WTJ 42:1 (Fall, 1979), 198-203. Used with permission.]
Capital Punishment [Published in The New Community 3 (Sept., 1977). Used with permission.]
In Defense of Christian Activism [This article, in a shorter version, was originally published in Christian Culture (April, 2006), 1-4. It is posted here by permission.]
The Local Church and Cultural Transformation [Published in Nine Marks Journal (Nov. -Dec., 2007). Used with permission.]
Toward a Theology of the State
In Defense of Christian Activism [This article, in a shorter version, was originally published in Christian Culture (April, 2006), 1-4. It is posted here by permission.]
Operation Rescue: Case Study on Civil Disobedience
When in the Course of Human Events Does Civil Disobedience Become Necessary?
Church Creeds and Christian Schools
My Use of the Reformed Confessions [A presentation to the Trustees of Westminster Theological Seminary in California]
Response to Jeremy Jones, Renewing Theology [Originally published on Common Grounds Online 9/22/08.]
The Other Shoe: or, Copyright and the Reasonable Use of Technology
Covenant and the Unity of Scripture
Foreword to Andrew Sandlin, ed., Backbone of the Bible: Covenant in Contemporary Perspective ( Nacodoches , TX : Covenant Media Press, 2004).
Preaching Christ From the Decalogue
Is Realignment a Biblical Option? [Published in New Horizons 10:6 (June-July, 1989), 18.]
“Determinism, Chance, and Freedom,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
“Death of God Theology” [Published in Sinclair B. Ferguson and David F. Wright, New Dictionary of Theology ( Downers Grove , IL : Inter-Varsity Press), 188-189. Used with permission.]
Do We Need God to Be Moral? A Debate Between John Frame and Paul Kurtz [Originally published in Free Inquiry Vol. 16 No. 2 (1996). Used with permission.]
How to Be Confident Amid Millennial Frenzies
“Infralapsarianism,” [Published in Donald K. McKim, ed., Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith ( Louisville : John Knox/Westminster), 193-94.]
The Mystery of Creaturely Otherness
Dooyeweerd and the Word of God
Christians and Charter Schools
Church Creeds and Christian Schools
Pastor's Column, Life at New Life: Back to School
Hurting People's Feelings or The Pathos Game
“Certainty,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
Christianity and Christian Epistemology [An article reviewing John L. Pollock’s Contemporary Theories of Knowledge (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1986). Originally published in Westminster Theological Journal 52:1 (Spring, 1990), 131-141. Used with permission.]
Epistemological Perspectives and Evangelical Apologetics (delivered to ETS, Far West, Biola University , April 23, 1982)
“Ontological Argument,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
“Scientia Media" [Published in W. Elwell, ed., Evangelical Dictionary of Theology ( Grand Rapids : Baker Book House), 987-988. Used with permission.]
“Transcendental Argument,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
“Unregenerate Knowledge of God,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
Between the Apostles and the Parousia: Bearing the Burdens of Change and of Knowledge
Compassion and the Ethical Calculus
Ethics, Preaching, and Biblical Theology
Euthyphro, Hume, and the Biblical God
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Heart Righteousness and Decalogical Hermeneutics
Must We Always Tell the Truth?
Reactive Ethics and Sola Scriptura
“Reformed Ethics” [Published in Carl F. H. Henry, ed., Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics ( Grand Rapids : Baker), 571-72. Used with permission.]
“Schleiermacher and Protestant Ethics” [Published in Carl F. H. Henry, ed., Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics ( Grand Rapids : Baker), 603-604. Used with permission.]
Should Christians Join the Cultural Elite?
Nursing Homes and the Fifth Commandment Christian Culture (Aug., 2002), 2.
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
A Theology of Opportunity: Sola Scriptura and the Great Commission
“God Made Me This Way,” Tabletalk 21:3 (Mar., 1997), 8-11. Also published in Immanuel 107 (Mar., 1997), 3.
The Message of Cornelius Van Til (Presented at Cornelius Van Til's memorial service, May, 1987.)
Remembering Donald B. Fullerton
Is Intelligent Design Science?
Logic [for Dictionary of Theological Interpretation of Scripture.]
Rationality and Scripture [Published in H. Hart, J. Vander Hoeven, and N. Wolterstorff, Rationality in the Calvinian Tradition ( Lanham , MD : University Press of America ), 293-317. Used with permission.]
“Machen's Warrior Children,” in Sung Wook Chung, ed., Alister E. McGrath and Evangelical Theology ( Grand Rapids : Baker, 2003).
Why Should I Vote? (Christianity and Politics): Sermon on Matthew 22:15-22
The Medical Model Revisted: Moral Responsibility and Physical Disability
Review of Bouma's Christian Faith, Health, and Medical Practice (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989).
Ministries of Mercy to the Unborn
Who Owns Palestine? Christian Culture (June, 2002), 2.
Psalm-Singing in the OPC and PCA [Published in Reformed Worship (Spring, 1987), 32-24. Used with permission.]
Is Natural Revelation Sufficient to Govern Culture? [A shorter version of this article was published in Christian Culture (Aug., 2006), 1-3. It is posted here by permission.]
Is Realignment a Biblical Option? [Published in New Horizons 10:6 (June-July, 1989), 18.]
Does the Bible Affirm Open Theism? [Originally published in the Apologetics Study Bible. Used with permission.]
Open Theism and Divine Foreknowledge [Originally published in D. Wilson , ed., Bound Only Once: the Failure of Open Theism ( Moscow , ID : Canon Press, 2001), 83-94. Used with permission.]
Salvation and Theological Pedagogy [Originally published in Act 3 Review 14.1 (2005), 57-70. Used with permission.]
Covering Ourselves (Matthew 25:14-30): A Charge to Graduating Seminary Students
Is Realignment a Biblical Option? [Published in New Horizons 10:6 (June-July, 1989), 18.]
A Primer on Perspectivalism (Revised 2008)
Who Owns Palestine? Christian Culture (June, 2002), 2.
Why Should I Vote? (Christianity and Politics): Sermon on Matthew 22:15-22
Ethics, Preaching, and Biblical Theology
Preaching Christ From the Decalogue
Some Journal Entries on Preaching
Guidelines for Church Union [Originally published in Presbyterian Journal 42 (Aug. 24, 1983), 8-10. Used with permission.]
Apologetics at Westminster Seminary
“Certainty,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
“Cornelius Van Til,” [Published in Timothy Larsen, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals (Leicester/Downers Grove, Inter-Varsity Press, 2003), 682-4. Used with permission.]
“Cornelius Van Til," [Published in W. Elwell , ed., Handbook of Evangelical Theologians (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1993), 156-167. Used with permission.]
“Cornelius Van Til,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
Epistemological Perspectives and Evangelical Apologetics (delivered to ETS, Far West, Biola University , April 23, 1982)
How to Believe in God in the 2000s
“Infinite Series,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
The Message of Cornelius Van Til (Presented at Cornelius Van Til's memorial service, May, 1987.)
“Ontological Argument,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
“Presuppositional Apologetics,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
“Reply to Don Collett on Transcendental Argument,” Westminster Theol. Journal 65 (2003), 307-309.
“Self-Refuting Statements,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
“Transcendental Argument,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
“Unregenerate Knowledge of God,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
Van Til: His Simplicity and Profundity [reprinted in Update (March, 1986), 1-2.]
Van Til and the Ligonier Apologetic [Originally published in WTJ 47:2 (Fall 1985). Used with permission.]
Van Til on Antithesis [Originally published in WTJ 57 (1995), 81-102. Used with permission.]
Van Til, The Theologian [Phillipsburg : Pilgrim Publications. Same as “The Problem of Theological Paradox.”]
Minorities and the Reformed Churches
Meanings of 'Racism,' and Some Evaluations
Introduction to the Reformed Faith
A Fresh Look at the Regulative Principle
The Regulative Principle: Scripture, Tradition, and Culture [A debate with Darryl Hart on Warfield computer list. Published in hardcopy by Westminster Campus Bookstore, ed. Charles R. Biggs.]
Pastor's Column, Life at New Life: Rebellion of the Heart
Foreword to Andrew Sandlin, ed., A Comprehensive Faith: Festschrift for Rousas J. Rushdoony [(San José: Friends of Chalcedon, 1996). Used with permission.]
Loving God with Your Mind without Becoming an Intellectual Pharisee [Lecture delivered at The Blackstone Fellowship]
Salvation and Theological Pedagogy [Originally published in Act 3 Review 14.1 (2005), 57-70. Used with permission.]
Is Intelligent Design Science?
Antithesis and The Doctrine of Scripture [Inaugural lecture on assuming the J. D. Trimble Chair of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL]
Dooyeweerd and the Word of God
Four Favorites on the Doctrine of Scripture [Orginally published in New Horizons (Mar. 2003), 13. Used with permission.]
God and Biblical Language: Transcendence and Immanence [Published in John W. Montgomery, ed., God's Inerrant Word (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1974), 159-177. Used with permission.]
No Scripture, No Christ [Published in Synapse II 1:1 (Jan., 1972), 1. Used with permission.]
Rationality and Scripture [Published in H. Hart, J. Vander Hoeven, and N. Wolterstorff, Rationality in the Calvinian Tradition ( Lanham , MD : University Press of America ), 293-317. Used with permission.]
The Regulative Principle: Scripture, Tradition, and Culture [A debate with Darryl Hart on Warfield computer list. Published in hardcopy by Westminster Campus Bookstore, ed. Charles R. Biggs.]
Review of Andrew McGowan's The Divine Spiration of Scripture
Review of Kelsey's The Uses of Scripture in Recent Theology [Originally published in WTJ 39:2 (Spring, 1977), 328-353. Used with permission.]
Review of Wright's The Last Word [Published in Penpoint 17.4 (Aug., 2006). Used with permission.]
Scripture Speaks For Itself [Originally published in John W. Montgomery, ed., God's Inerrant Word (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1974), 178-200. Used with permission.]
The Spirit and the Scriptures [Published in Donald Carson and John Woodbridge, ed., Hermeneutics, Authority and Canon ( Grand Rapids : Zondervan), 217-235. Used with permission.]
The Word of God: Timeless and Timely
Covering Ourselves (Matthew 25:14-30): A Charge to Graduating Seminary Students
Learning at Jesus' Feet: a Case for Seminary Training [Pamphlet published by RTS/Orlando.]
Proposal For a New Seminary Journal of Pastoral Practice 2:1 (Winter, 1978), 10-17.
Studying Theology as a Servant of Jesus [Pamphlet published by Reformed Theological Seminary Bookstore.]
A Theology of Opportunity: Sola Scriptura and the Great Commission
My Use of the Reformed Confessions [A presentation to the Trustees of Westminster Theological Seminary in California]
Reactive Ethics and Sola Scriptura
The Regulative Principle: Scripture, Tradition, and Culture [A debate with Darryl Hart on Warfield computer list. Published in hardcopy by Westminster Campus Bookstore, ed. Charles R. Biggs.]
Reply to Richard Muller and David Wells
The Bible on the Problem of Evil
“Machen's Warrior Children,” in Sung Wook Chung, ed., Alister E. McGrath and Evangelical Theology ( Grand Rapids : Baker, 2003).
Reply to Richard Muller and David Wells
Salvation and Theological Pedagogy [Originally published in Act 3 Review 14.1 (2005), 57-70. Used with permission.]
The Amsterdam Philosophy: a Preliminary Critique [Phillipsburg, NJ: Harmony Press, 1972].
Foreword to Andrew Sandlin, ed., A Comprehensive Faith: Festschrift for Rousas J. Rushdoony [(San José: Friends of Chalcedon, 1996). Used with permission.]
Penultimate Thoughts on Theonomy
The Burden of Change: a Warning Against Laziness and Shortcuts [Originally published in Christian Culture (Sept., 2004), 4. Used with permission.]
Walking Together [Address given at the organizing conference for F. I. R. E., the Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals, April 27, 1999.
“Cornelius Van Til,” [Published in Timothy Larsen, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals (Leicester/Downers Grove, Inter-Varsity Press, 2003), 682-4. Used with permission.]
“Cornelius Van Til," [Published in W. Elwell , ed., Handbook of Evangelical Theologians (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1993), 156-167. Used with permission.]
“Cornelius Van Til,” for IVP Dictionary of Apologetics.
“Cornelius Van Til, the Apologist,” for Apologetics Study Bible.
The Message of Cornelius Van Til [Presented at Cornelius Van Til's memorial service, May, 1987.]
Review of White's Van Til: Defender of the Faith [Originally published in WTJ 42:1 (Fall, 1979), 198-203. Used with permission.]
Van Til: His Simplicity and Profundity [reprinted in Update (March, 1986), 1-2.]
Van Til and the Ligonier Apologetic [Originally published in WTJ 47:2 (Fall 1985). Used with permission.]
Van Til on Antithesis [Originally published in WTJ 57 (1995), 81-102. Used with permission.]
Van Til, The Theologian [Phillipsburg : Pilgrim Publications. Same as “The Problem of Theological Paradox.”]
Virgin Birth of Jesus [Published in W. Elwell, ed., Evangelical Dictionary of Theology ( Grand Rapids : Baker), 1143-1145. Used with permission.]
Response to “What Was It Like?” [Published in New Horizons 10:5 (May, 1989), 2-3. Used with permission.]
Westminster Catechisms [Published in W. Elwell, ed., Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (Grand Rapids : Baker), 1168. Used with permission.]
Westminster Confession of Faith [Published in W. Elwell, ed., Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (Grand Rapids : Baker), 1168-69. Used with permission.]
May Women Teach Adult Sunday School Classes?
Above the Battle?, photocopied for worship course.
A Class in Praise [Originally published in Life at New Life (May-June, 1985), 1.]
Foreword to The Art of Worship by Paxson Jeancake (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2006)
A Fresh Look at the Regulative Principle
Psalm-Singing in the OPC and PCA [Published in Reformed Worship (Spring, 1987), 32-24. Used with permission.]
Serving One Another in Worship In Covenant 4:3 (Mar., 2001), 1-2.
Worship and the Reformation Gospel