Blogging About the Belgic

November 21, 2008

Blogging About the Belgic

Filed under: Introduction — dannyhyde @ 11:07 pm

As a way of promoting the theology and history of the Belgic Confession (Confessio Belgica), I have begun this little blog. To do so I plan to use my book, With Heart and Mouth: An Exposition of the Belgic Confession, provide resources on the Belgic, and provide a forum to discuss its teaching.

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This is great! Thanks for doing this. Hopefully it will result in more exposure for our beloved Confession.

Comment by Wes Bredenhof — November 22, 2008 @ 6:38 pm | Reply
Hi Wes!

It’s been a desire of mine for a while.

Comment by dannyhyde — November 22, 2008 @ 6:48 pm | Reply
hey!

Comment by inwoo lee — November 22, 2008 @ 8:22 pm | Reply
Inwoo! Welcome, brother.

Comment by dannyhyde — November 22, 2008 @ 10:22 pm | Reply
This is fantastic!

I’m looking forward to perusing this site.

Thanks for doing this.

Comment by Brad Lenzner — November 24, 2008 @ 4:48 pm | Reply
Hi Brad,

Welcome!

Comment by dannyhyde — November 24, 2008 @ 5:11 pm | Reply
Since I seem to have problems accessing your OURC site this will just have to do.

Looking forward!

Comment by Zrim — November 24, 2008 @ 8:02 pm | Reply
Fancy to see you here, Zrimer!

Comment by dannyhyde — November 24, 2008 @ 9:58 pm | Reply
I know almost nothing about the Belgic Confession, and am looking forward to this. (I was tipped off via K. Riddlebarger’s blog.)

Comment by arongahagan — November 25, 2008 @ 2:15 am | Reply
Aron,

Thanks for dropping by . . .

Comment by dannyhyde — November 25, 2008 @ 3:38 am | Reply
This site looks very interesting. I look forward to learning more about the Belgic Confession and its history.

I have the Belgic Confession here on my blog:
http://www.scripturezealot.com/belgic-confession/
Jeff

Comment by Scripture Zealot — November 27, 2008 @ 12:11 am | Reply
Dear Rev. Hyde,

I just discovered your new blog and I am happy to see your desire to promote the Belgic Confession. I have in my possession your articles that have been published in Outlook. I suppose your book has about the same content as your articles. I will be teaching on the BC in my congregation in 2009, so this is a joy to find more resources about these glorious doctrines. Since we are a French speaking congregation in Quebec, we will have to use a French version of the confession. Of course, the original was first written in French, but this is old French that is very difficult to understand today. There is a more recent French version dated 1850 (in Schaff’s book), but it is still somewhat old French for us. So I have started the personal project to prepare a modern French version of this beautiful confession that will be easier to read but will stay faithful to the original.

I have not looked at all the content of your blog, but there are a few titles and resources about the BC that I have not seen. May be you are aware of their existence. If not, here are the titles:
- C.G. Bos, Believe and Confess, Volume One, Inter-League Publication Board, London, Ontario, Canada, 2002, 145 pages (translated from the Dutch).
- C.G. Bos, Believe and Confess, Volume Two, Inter-League Publication Board, London, Ontario, Canada, 2004, 160 pages (translated from the Dutch).
- Clarence Stam, Everything in Christ. The Christian Faith Outlined According to the Belgic Confession, Premier Printing, Winnipeg, Canada, 1979, 152 pages.
- J.A. Vink, We Believe, Outlines on the Belgic Confession, Part One (articles 1 to 17), Inter-League Publication Board, London, Ontario, Canada, 1967, 31 pages (translated from the Dutch).
- J.A. Vink, We Believe, Outlines on the Belgic Confession, Part Two (articles 18 to 37), Inter-League Publication Board, London, Ontario, Canada, 1967, 57 pages (translated from the Dutch).
- Al Bezuyen, Faith of Our Fathers. Studies in the Belgic Confession, 186 pages (no publishing house, large pages).
- G. Van Rongen, The Church. Its unity in confession and history. Inheritance Publications, Neerlandia, Alberta, Canada, 1998, 240 pages (commentary on articles 27, 28 and 29).
- Chuck Baynard, Commentary on the Belgic Confession of Faith. Full Bible Pub., 2008, 136 pages (see review: http://www.cof-fbp.org/Files/BelgicReview.pdf).
- Clarence Bouwman, The Overflowing Riches of God’s Mercy. Revisiting the Belgic Confession. Proecclesia. 424 pages. (www.proecclesia.com.au). See also his “Notes on the Belgic Confession (http://members.iinet.net.au/~jvd/notes2.htm).
- C. Pronk, Knowing God. 22 lessons based on the Belgic Confession of faith (www.pronklink.net/catechism.php).

So may the Lord bless your project and may He bless the spreading of the Good News in Jesus Christ!

Paulin Bédard
Église réformée du Québec in St-Georges de Beauce

Comment by Paulin Bédard — December 3, 2008 @ 11:36 pm | Reply