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Leanne Van Dyk

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A Broad Horizon and a Meager Meal

JANUARY 2012: NOT MY OWN: REFLECTIONON THE HEIDELBERG by Leanne Van Dyk Question 27: What do you understand by the providence of God? Answer: The almighty and ever present power by which God upholds heaven and earth and all creatures, and so rules them that leaves and grass, rain and drought, fruitful and unfruitful years, food and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, and everything else, come to us not by chance but from God's sustaining hand. It is…
Leanne Van Dyk
October 30, 2014
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Thanks and farewell to scott

Frequent readers of Perspectives know that this journal appears in your mailboxes and is found on your web browser ten times a year due to a small and dedicated team of volunteers. These people behind the scenes, the editors and the board, do their work as a labor of love. The shared efforts of the co-editors and the board create a strong and vibrant collegiality. They are all committed to the vision of engaging in a sustained conversation on gospel…
Leanne Van Dyk
August 1, 2011
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The Grand Vision and the Ordinary Stuff

"I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in…
Leanne Van Dyk
February 1, 2011
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A Discussion of the Atonement: Abuse, Violence, Sacrifice, and the Cross

Three Reformed theologians--Gabriel Fackre, George Hunsinger, and Leanne Van Dyk--recently joined together to discuss, via a telephone conference call, Christ's atoning work and some of the current criticisms and challenges to traditional understandings of it. Perspectives editor Steve Mathonnet-Vander Well posed the questions. The responses of the three theologians are indicated by their initials.Just by way of introduction, what particularly interests you or seems important for a discussion of the atonement? Gabriel Fackre (GF): How come there's no ecumenical consensus…
Leanne Van Dyk, Gabriel Fackre and George Hunsinger
February 1, 2009
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Barbed Questions and Bread from Heaven

Listen in on a conversation between Jesus and a crowd of persistent people gathered on the shores on the Sea of Galilee. It is the morning after the feeding of the thousands back on the other side of the lake. A conversation between Jesus and a crowd of people? Chances are, it was more like a high-stakes press conference, with questions being shouted from all corners of the crowd. There is a certain haphazard, disconnected, non-sequitur quality of this encounter…
Leanne Van Dyk
August 1, 2003