Periodical Reviews -- By: James F. Rand

Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 118:471 (Jul 1961)
Article: Periodical Reviews
Author: James F. Rand


Periodical Reviews

James F. Rand

“Donald Grey Barnhouse Memorial Issue,” Eternity, March, 1961.

Readers will receive a new appreciation of the life and ministry of this stout defender of the faith through this issue which is devoted completely to answering the question “What made the man?” as well as the recording of a score of tributes to the internationally known Bible expositor. Every phase of his ministry which included the pastorate of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, New York Bible classes, radio and television, Revelation and Eternity magazines, nation-wide Bible teaching missions, similar missions at Keswick and Cambridge and in Belgium and France, as well as the promotion of worldwide missions, is covered in a lengthy essay which is spiritually stimulating as well as intellectually rewarding. The reading of this issue will be a profitable experience.

Gaebelein, Frank E., “The Christian’s Intellectual Life,” Christianity Today, May 8, 1961.

“We ought…as partners in Christian education, to take seriously our obligation to live our intellectual life to the glory of God. For us who receive the Bible as the Word of God, who know at first-hand the power of the Saviour who died and rose for us, the Christian’s intellectual life is not an optional, take-it-or-leave-it matter. It is for all of us. It is a ‘must’ for every believing student and teacher,” writes the headmaster of famed Stony Brook School, adding: “The Christian call to the intellectual life is not just to an elite, a chosen few. It is not merely for members of the scholastic honor society, or for the faculty. Said Sir William Ramsay, ‘Christianity is the religion of the educated mind.’ Observe that he did not say that it is the religion of a brilliant or a gifted mind. We are not responsible for the extent of our native intelligence but for the extent of our use of the ability God has given us.” Dr. Gaebelein points out further that the Christian intellectual life is inseparable from morality, a life of faith, and a life dedicated to the discipline of self-restraint and hard work. “Finally, we grow in intellect in the broadest and deepest sense as we submit ourselves to our teacher [God]. He teaches us daily as we pay the price of hard thinking. He teaches us through His Word. He teaches us through teachers who in turn are taught by Him. He teaches us through the discipline of trial and disappointment and suffering, and through our successes too. But most of all He teaches us through a Person, through the One who is altogether lovely, the One who is Himself most excellent in all things, our Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the Truth, never compromised with anything that was false or sinful. When God teaches us,...

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