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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—Presented 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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