Dr Cornelis P Venema is Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Doctrinal studies at Mid-America Reformed Seminary, Dyer, Indiana. He is co-editor of the Mid-America Journal of Theology and contributing editor of a column on doctrine for the monthly periodical The Outlook. He gained his doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary and has served as a pastor in the Christian Reformed Church in Ontario, California, and South Holland, Illinois. He and his wife Nancy have four children.