Eric D. Syme

ERIC D. SYME, Religion and Biblical Language Department, Pacific Union College

Articles by Eric D. Syme

Open-air Preaching in England

August 1947

Although we are told that Jesus preached in the synagogues, it is certain that His greatest preaching and teaching took place in the open air. That greatest of all sermons was delivered upon a mountainside. As…

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What Christ Risked for the Sabbath

December 1955

[Each weekday morning the General Conference family gathers in our chapel for a fifteen-minute worship before taking up the duties of the day. Recently Eric Syme, who for a number of years en­gaged in evangelistic labors in England and who…

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Christ and the Law

December 1955

In the hour of their victory the people of God "sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb" (Rev. 15:3). There is a certain added interest to this fact in view…

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Outstanding Religious Trends of 1955

February 1956

Dr. Wand, Bishop of London, expressed himself more wittily than wisely when he said that there were three things wrong with the Evanston Conference of 1954. "Too much American money, too much German the­ology,…

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The Changing Face of Theology

April 1957

The intellectual cli­mate of the later nineteenth century was saturated by the evolutionary conception. It would be a mistake to con­sider that it was the strength of the scientific evidences pro­duced that gained…

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The Sabbath--New Concepts on its Importance

September 1966

A SYNAGOGUE, still in the northern province of Galilee, for it was dan­gerous for Jesus to work in Judea, was the set­ting of the next inci­dent. A man in the congregation had a with­ered arm. Among the congregation also were the usual watchers…

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The Sabbath--New Concepts on its Important

August 1966

WHILE listening to a sermon by E. E. Heppenstall I was particularly im­pressed by one statement he made. He emphasized that we do not need to re­orient or reshape our message as much as we need to approach the essential cate­gories of that…

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