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Progressive
Calvinism, later
renamed First
Principles in
Morality and
Economics.
Volume III, 1957 -
Harmony of Morality
and Economics
January -
Introduction To Volume
III Of Progressive
Calvinism - Morality And
Personal Conduct Versus
Morality And The Socio-
Economic Order - Is The
Economic Order Properly
Based On Neighborly
Love? - Men Orthodox
On One Subject And
Unorthodox On Another
- The Contempt Of
Economists For
"Christianity" - Of What
Do The Ethics Of The
Social Gospel Consist? -
An Opportunity That
Members Of The
Christian Reformed
Church Have Bungled -
Rev. Peter Van Tuinen
And The Ethics Of The
Social Gospel
February - The
World's Most Pernicious
Evil - Two Definitions Of
Socialism - What Is The
Social Gospel? (A
Definition From The
Viewpoint Of Scripture)
- The Kinds Of Income -
Julius Rosenwald And
The Fifteenth Psalm -
Texts In Scripture
Against Interest -
Interest And Usury - The
History Of The Moral
Appraisal Of Interest (Or
Usury) In Broad Strokes -
The Rev. Peter Van
Tuinen On Usury - Our
Ancestral Church On
Interest - The Misuse Of
Scripture - John Calvin
On Interest -
Superficiality Of Calvin's
Argument On Interest -
Two Books On The Social
Gospel - The World's
Greatest Economists
March - The Ethic Of
The Social Gospel - Is
The Christian Reformed
Church Letting The
Ethics Of The Social
Gospel Stand
Unchallenged? - Rev.
Peter Van Tuinen's
Requirement That There
Be No Usury In His
"Kingdom Of God" -
Interest At 10% A
Month—And Still Not
Usury - The Immorality
Of Making Declarations
On Subjects About
Which One Is
Uninformed - Einstein
On The Importance Of
Being Able To State A
Problem - Who Has
Formulated The Interest
Problem Correctly?
Moses? Christ? The
Medieval Church?
Calvin? The Social
Gospellers? - Böhm-
Bawerk's Candid
Statement Of The
Interest Problem - The
Logic Substantiating
That Scripture Is
Unqualifiedly In Favor
Of Loan Interest In The
Economic Order - An
Independent
Examination Of What
Scripture Teaches ON
Usury, That Is, On
Interest - Future Articles
On Interest And Van
Tuinen's Kingdom Of God
- Coexistence Of
Atheism And Christianity
- Old-Testament
Character Of Old
Calvinism And Of
Progressive Calvinism
April - The Centenary
Of The Christian
Reformed Church - I.
SANCTIMONY: - The
Ambulance In The Valley
- The Householder
Whose Glass Door Was
Broken - Religion's
Ambulance In The Valley
- Classic Irrationality -
Refined Seduction
Versus Vulgar Seduction
- The Significance Of
The "Attributes" Of God
- Peering Over The Cliff
- Stromata - Nygren And
Nels Ferre - Synopsis -
II. DIALECTICAL
BANKRUPTCY: - Lester
De Koster's "All Ye That
Labor" - The "Issue"
Between Communism
And Christianity - The
Crafty Treasurer On The
Witness Stand - De
Koster's Comprehensive
Summary Of Marxism -
De Koster's Evasion Of
The Real Issue
May - III. THE NEED
OF INTELLECTUAL
METHOD: - Genius
Versus Method -
Descartes's "Discourse
On Method" -
Mathematical Brilliance
Versus Method - The
Relationship Of Method
To Achievement - Lester
De Koster On The
Relationship OF Sin To
The Natural Order -
Tornadoes, The Result
Of Adam's Fall! -
Supralapsarianism And
Infralapsarianism - A
Reader's Reaction - IV.
MESSIANIC
INTERVENTIONISM: - "We
Have Never Lost A Fight
With Joe Louis" - Two
Different and
Irreconcilable Religions -
The Dispute Between A
Mosaic Ethic And An
Agape Ethic Is Not
Basically One of Morality
But Of Epistemology
(Intellectual
Limitations) - The
Mosaic System (Including
Individualism And
Capitalism) Is Not An
Anarchic System -
Interventionism—Present
ed As A Messianic Hope
For Society - Correction
June - Purpose Of
This Issue - Request For
Information - The
Benefits Of Discussion -
IV. MESSIANIC
INTERVENTIONISM
(continued): - A.:
Definitions Of Social
Philosophies -
Prevalence Of
Interventionism Among
Some Modern Calvinists
- B.: - Individualism And
Selfishness - Nygren's
Two Loves And The Idea
Of Selfishness
July - Fan Mail;
Critical Mail; Doctrinal
Mail - A "Sin" Which Is
Beneficial - A
Businessman's Praise Of
Selfishness - Time
Magazine On "Wage
Incentives", A
Remuneration System
Based On Selfishness - Is
The Science Of
Economics A Science
About Sin? - Nietzsche
Versus Progressive
Calvinism Versus The
Social Gospel - How
Protect Liberty? By Men?
By Law? By Super-Law? -
What Gold Is To Money,
The Law Of God Is To
Liberty - Does Modern
Calvinism Approve Of
Capitalism? - The
Slaughter OF The Pigs -
Lester De Koster On
Interventionism - A
Smart Little Girl - "Law
Preached Before Love"
August - Upton
Sinclair And His Book,
The Jungle - The Story
In The Jungle - The
Socialist Case Against
The Packing Industry -
The Inevitability Of
Socialism; An
Impossibility - The
Reliability Of Sinclair As
A Witness - Economics
Of Meat Packing Industry
- "The Yankee Of The
Yards" - Proposed
Contents Of Future
Issues - A Reader Writes
About Selfishness
September -
Comparing Calvinist And
Social Gospel Ethics -
Repetition Of Reward
Offered - Christian
Ethics Versus A "Higher"
Doctrine - Freedom Is
Not Possible Except
Under Laissez-Faire
Capitalism - Why Are
People Poor? - What Is
The Character Of
"Capital", Something
Which God Did Not
Create? - God Did Not
Make The World Good,
As Some People
Understand "Good" - If
You Were Robinson
Crusoe, What Would You
Choose To Salvage?
October - Why Are
People Poor?
(continued), or Poverty
And its Causes - William
Of Occam And His Razor
- Mises On:
"Righteousness As The
Ultimate Standard Of
The Individual's Actions"
November -
"Deafness" As A
Defective Explanation
Why You Cannot Year! -
Purpose Of This
Issue—Exposing The Sin
Of What Is Called
"Capitalism" -
Progressive Calvinism's
Definition Of Capitalism
- Modern Calvinism's
Ideas In The Field Of
Economic Theory;
"Mene, Mene, Tekel,
Upharsin"! - Theft
Masquerading Under The
Guise of Efficiency -
Origin Of The
Immorality Of So-called
Capitalism - What
Causes Depressions?
Calamities? No; Sins? Yes
- Bankers As Brokers Of
Money Versus Bankers As
Creators Of Money -
Kinds Of Money - The
Mathematics Of What
Causes Depressions -
The Contribution Of
Great Economists To
Folly - Why
Governments Have
Adopted And Approved
The Fraud Of The
Goldsmiths - How God
Punishes Theft - Ludwig
Von Mises's Book: Theory
And History
December - Our
Thirty-Sixth Monthly
Issue - An Error Of A Kind
Which William Of Occam
Attacked - Destruction
From Within -
(Continuation Of
Subject Discussed In The
November Issue): - A
Revolutionary Difference
- The Common Disaster
And Disillusionment - An
Inquiry Addressed To The
Reformed Journal - The
Federal Reserve System
As A System Designed To
Permit More Theft - The
Harvard University
Committee On Economic
Research In Regard To
Expansion of Fiduciary
Media - The Failure Of
The "Capitalists" -
Socialism's Two Most
Effective Charges
Against "Capitalism"
Volume IV, 1958 -
Neighborly Love and
Ricardo's Law of
Association
January - Fifty-One
Words Of The World's
Greatest Code Of Laws -
Looking Backward
(1955-1957) And
Forward (1958) In
Progressive Calvinism -
Everybody Is Unhappy
About Unemployment -
Kinds Of Unemployment
- Can Employment Be
Steady? - An Erroneous
Approach To Trying To
Eliminate Friction
Unemployment
February - Purpose Of
This Issue, A Study Of A
Swindle - An Indian
Giver - Outline Of
Propositions To Be
Explained In What
Follows - John Maynard
Keynes, First Baron Of
Tilton (Prophet Of A New
"Morality") - Keynes, On
The Virtue Of
Extravagance (Or The
Evils Resulting From
Savings) - Keynes, The
World's Champion Indian
Giver - It is Silly To Try
To Deceive The Wage
Earner - Traditional
Capitalism's Policy Just
The Reverse Of Keynes's
- The Economic Policy
Of the United States Is
Based On Keynes's Ideas
- Keynes As A Socialist
March - The Plan
Which Is Being Followed
- Introducing Keynes—A
Play In Three Acts - Two
Kinds Of Socialists - A
Socialist Mayor Who Was
Against Certain Union
Activities - The Terrible
Case Of A Father
Maiming His Son Almost
To Death - Keynes's
Letter To Roosevelt On
Spending Our Way To
Prosperity - Right Now
We Are Preparing To Put
Out More Fiduciary
Media - Keynes As An
"Academic Scribbler" - A
Bibliography Of Articles
On Keynes - How To Save
Yourself From The
Penalties Of Two Public
Sins, Union Coercion And
Government Fiduciary
Media - Reserving
Money, vs. Hoarding, vs.
Investing - The Plight of
Capitalism - Business
Men Will Not Save
Capitalism
April - (Carryover
articles from March
issue) - How To Counter
A Depression? Two Ways
Neither Really Good -
Complex, But Defective,
Explanations Of Inflation
- Testimony In a
Mohammedan Country
Against Public
(Government) Sin - The
Dilemma Of All Men Who
Reject The True Law Of
God - (Articles on
Selfishness) -
Selfishness, A Term
Violating Occam's
Famous Rule - The Boy
Who Would Play Only
Basketball - The
Socialist Attack On
Liberty - Confusing
Finiteness With The
Effects Of Sin - A Woman
Who Is Satisfied Is As
Good As Dead -
Elementary Selfishness
Is Necessary As An
Incentive
May - (Carryover
Articles) - The Possible
Course Of The 1958
Recession - John Calvin
As A "Rationalist" Of
John Calvin Versus John
Maynard Keynes -
(Futher Articles on
Selfishness) - The Case
Against Liberty - The
Sense In Which
Selfishness Must Be
Good - Upgrading The
Meaning Of Selfishness -
The Demand For
Another God;
Churchman Say That
Freedom Plus The Law
Of God Is Inadequate To
Protect The Weak - The
Three Attributes
Determining Selfishness
- The Correct Way To
Look At The Motivation
Of Selfishness -
Praxeology Is Broader
Than Economics - For
Finite Man There Are No
Absolutes; Everything Is
Relative - The Character
Of Our Choices
June - The Ethical
Commandment In the
Decalogue Legislating
Freedom - The
Theological
commandment In The
Decalogue Legislating
Freedom - People
Should Be Classified Not
As Capitalists Or
Socialists, But As FOR Or
AGAINST The Law of God
- A Small Investor's
Hedge Against Inflation -
Definitions Of Egoism,
Egotism, Selfishness,
Altruism - Altruism Is
Based On The
Hallucination Of
Omniscience Or On
Coercion - The
Character Of Our
Choices (continued from
the May issue) (a) The
Intellect Precedes The
Will, Even In Moral
Questions (b) The Tithe
Is High Wisdom (c) The
Absurdity Of A Just Price
Slogan (d) A Just Price
Depends On, Thou Shalt
Not Kill
July - Purpose Of This
Issue - The Character Of
Our Choices (continued
form the May issue) -
David Ricardo, The Man
- Ricardo's Law Of
Association - What Holds
Society Together? (An
analysis of the answer
of the Christian
Reformed church
compared with a simple
answer)
August - Perspective
Of This Issue - The
Engine And The Brakes -
The More Probable Case
- A Reader's Reaction To
The Strongman-Feebler
Case - Advantages To
The Weak And To The
Strong From
Cooperation Under
Various Circumstances: -
I. Sterility From
Cooperation Among Men
Who Were Created
Wholly Equal - II.
Equally Unequal Men
Cannot Cooperate To
Advantage Except By
Violating The Law Of
God - III. Neither God
Nor Man Wishes Men To
Be Equally Equal Or
Even Equally Unequal.
The Goal Is Complete
Unequal Inequality - IV.
Who Gets The Spoils
From Cooperation: - 1.
Division Of Benefits
Under Isolated Exchange
Of Services - 2. One-
Sided Competition; Four
Strong Men And One
Weak Man - 3. One-
Sided Competition; Four
Weak Men And One
Strong Man -
Competition Between
Several Strong Men And
Several Weak Men (in a
later issue) - What Is
Brotherly Love? Charity
Only! - Thomas a
Kempis's Pessimism On
Real Progress
September -
Overemphasis On
Charity And
Underemphasis On
Cooperation In Modern
Ethics - What Does
Equally Equal Mean?
(Definitions) - The
Inequality Of Men Is Not
Primarily Related To
Adam's Fall - The
Dilemma Of God:
Society Or No Society -
God As An Unjust
Creator! - The Absurdity
Of Being Our Brother's
Keeper - Easy
Explanations Of
Praxeological
Problems—The Kangaroo
Jump - Some Aspects Of
Laws Of Human Action -
Karl Marx As A Thinker
October - The
Reformation Needs To
Be Repeated - Ricardo
Right And Ricardo Wrong
- The Extent Of The
Effects Of Adam's Fall -
Your Cosmology, Or Your
World And Life View -
Total Depravity Has A
Meaning Dependent ON
The Cosmological
Framework In Which It Is
Set - The Problem Of
The "Hatred" Of God - A
"Lawless" Pre-Fall World
- The Cosmology
Underlying The Social
Gospel - Is Socialism
Poor Economics, But
Good Ethics? - What Is
Interest? Or The
Quandary Of Calvinism
In Economics - Potential
New Name For This
Publication
November - Isolation
Resulting From Holding
The Doctrine Of
Obedience To God First -
Examples Of Political
Issues Which We Shall
Analyze From A
Scriptural Viewpoint -
Specific Tyranny Today
In The United States -
Three Great Americans
And A Fourth Even
Greater - John C.
Calhoun, The Man -
Calhoun's, "A Disquisition
on Government" -
Quotation From A
Disquisition on
Government - Calhoun
On Slavery, The
Question On Which
Calhoun Was Wrong -
Calhoun On Loyalty, A
Question On Which He Is
Unjustly Suspected -
"The Union! Next To Our
Liberties Most Dear" -
Michel de Montaigne On
Blind Obedience To
Government - The New
Name For Progressive
Calvinism Again
December -
Orientation - Calhoun As
A Statesman - "Not Fit
To Associate With
Gentlemen" - Calhoun's
Awareness Where "Sin"
Begins - What Started
Calhoun On His Basic
Idea? - Should There Be
A Right Of Self-
Determination? -
Lampooing
Calvinism—Holmes' "The
Deacon's Masterpiece" -
Calvinist Predestination
And Mohammedan
Fatalism - A Self-
Imposed Logical
Difficulty, A Cul de Sac -
Final Summary Of
Propositions In
Progressive Calvinism -
The Last Issue Of
Progressive Calvinism
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