Newman — Historian or Apologist?

Newman Neild

The tragically sudden death of Dr. Newman Neild, in the early hours of 4th July, came as a great shock to his patients and friends, as he had been at work less than twelve hours before. There had been, however, certain misgivings in the minds of his professional colleagues during the previous few months, in spite of apparently undiminished energy. Newman Neild was born in Bristol in 1872, and r...

Charles Raven. Naturalist, historian, theologian

centuries (C.B. Schmitt); science in the early Royal Society (M.D. Hall); science and religion in the seventeenth century (P.M. Rattansi); the growth of Netherlands science in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries (W. D. Hackmann); the rise and fall of Scottish science (J. R. R. Christie); scientific careers in eighteenth-century France (R. Hahn); the development of a professional care...

The Wahlquist-Newman solution

Based on a geometrical property which holds both for the Kerr metric and for the Wahlquist metric we argue that the Kerr metric is a vacuum subcase of the Wahlquist perfect-fluid solution. The Kerr-Newman metric is a physically preferred charged generalization of the Kerr metric. We discuss which geometric property makes this metric so special and claim that a charged generalization of the Wahl...

Technologist-Historian: Data Visualization Meets the Archive.

Can One Be Both a Dispensational and “ Covenantal ” Apologist ?

K. Scott Oliphint’s recent volume on apologetics is, on its own merits, a noteworthy and useful work.2 Its importance does not rest in its novelty, and that by design. Oliphint acknowledges in his introduction that “this book will...translate the language, concepts, and ideas set forth in [Cornelius] Van Til’s Reformed apologetic into language, terms, and concepts that are more accessible.”3 Wh...