Dr. P. de Vries – artikelen en opinie
'Uw goedertierenheid is beter dan het leven' (Psalm 63)
Throughout the centuries there have been preachers who were eloquent, even exceptionally eloquent. They placed their gifts of eloquence in the service of the Gospel. One of them was George Whitefield. * Who Was George Whitefield? Anyone seeking an example of a powerful orator among the preachers of past centuries will certainly encounter the name [...]
Introduction John Bunyan is one of the most important persons out of the history of the church. His work The Pilgrim's Progress is read all over the world. It is read in all circles, Reformed, Baptist, Presbyterian, Anglican, Lutheran and so on. Who was John Bunyan? In Dutch we have a proverb: "He curses as [...]
As well as Puritanism as a whole having been intensively investigated over the past few decades, numerous studies of Puritan preaching have also come out. Nevertheless, none of these has investigated the Puritan view of the effectual call as it relates to the matter and manner of Puritan preaching. Boone has remedied this deficiency, researching [...]
If there is one book that stands out more than others as representative of the best of the Scottish religious classics it is Human Nature in its Fourfold State. It met wide acceptance not only in Scotland, but also abroad. Already in the eighteenth century it was translated into Dutch. In this work Thomas Boston (1676-1732) [...]
Hugh Martin (1822-1885) was one of the outstanding ministers of the Free Church of Scotland in the first decennia of her existence. According to C.H. Spurgeon no church so much resembled in the apostolic church as the Free Church of Scotland in her beginning years. Martin was born in Aberdeen on 11 August 1822. He [...]
John Owen (1613-1683) is rightly regarded as one of the greatest theologians Britain ever produced. A.F Mitchell said that he was a genius and learning only second to Calvin. In him we see the not atypical combination of fervent puritan piety and reformed orthodoxy that uses scholastic termino-logy to clarify the message of the gospel. The last [...]
Campegius Vitringa was a leading scholar in 18th-century Biblical studies. He had a wide influence not only during his life but also afterwards, long into the 19th century. Franke, Bengel, Delitzsch, Gesenius and the Princeton theologians, among others, appreciated him greatly. In the 20th century Vitringa was largely overlooked. In the postmodern climate of recent [...]
English-speaking Christians owe a great debt of gratitude to William Tyndale (1490-1536). He was the first one who started to translate the Bible in English from the original languages. He translated the whole New Testament and several books of the Old Testament, A great deal of his translation survives in the King James Version. The [...]
In 1988 John Piper, who been for 33 years pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota and he is the founder of Desiring God Ministries, started the Bethlehem Conference for Pastors. Inspired by the storing and moving in which Iain Murray, one the founders of the Banner of Truth, made church history relevant for [...]
Who were the Puritans? What did they seek to achieve? The Puritans were British preachers living in the second part of the sixteenth century and in the seventeenth century whose desire was to promote a God glorifying piety; a piety of the heart that sets us in flame for God and his glory; a practical [...]
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