Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 109:436 (Oct 1952)
Article: Editorials
Author: Anonymous

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Editorials

New Editor

At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of Dallas Theological Seminary on October 27, Dr. John F. Walvoord, newly elected President of Dallas Seminary, was appointed Acting Editor of Bibliotheca Sacra. Dr. Walvoord has served on the faculty of the Seminary since 1936 and as Editor of the Seminary Bulletin since 1940. For the past twelve years he has contributed articles regularly to Bibliotheca Sacra.

Looking Ahead

A most attractive offering of original articles by department editors and contributed articles by noted scholars is being planned for 1953. Details are given on the inside front cover. We feel that these vital and significant contributions to Christian literature will prove invaluable to all our subscribers. Plans are also under way for greatly increasing the offerings in book reviews. Suggestions for improvement of the quarterly will be gratefully received by the new Editor.

John F. Walvoord

What of the RSV?

The following is a preliminary statement from Dallas Seminary with regard to the Revised Standard Version. “Although we recognize certain merits in the Revised Standard Version as a reference work, we find reason to distrust it. It is a product of the liberal wing of modern scholarship and upon investigation we find that this viewpoint clearly manifests itself in the translation. We decry also the attempt of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America to establish it as the authorized version of Protestantism.

“We recommend, therefore, the continued use in public

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and private of either the King James Version or the American Standard Version. We further recommend the use of the Scofield Reference Edition of the Bible and call attention to the fact that it contains in its notes many of the more important variant manuscript readings.

“It is the purpose of the faculty to issue a more detailed statement” on the subject of the RSV in the January-March, 1953 issue of Bibliotheca Sacra.

Apostolic “Looking”

It is of the utmost importance to comprehend that, whenever the apostle Paul made reference to the glorious truth of the return of the Lord Jesus Christ for His blood-bought own, he always treated the subject more for its devotional appreciation than its doctrinal apprehension. This is not to slight or in any wise to diminish the import and value of accurate statement concerning this doctrine, especially in the light of the errors and misunderstandings which have arisen to cast the truth into a place of fanatical triviality in the eyes of many. But it is to emp...

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