We’re coming to the end of the Spring semester. Preparations for commencement are reaching their conclusion. Student papers are due this Friday at 10AM (for those of my students who haven’t already turned in their papers). After that, there are a few . . . Continue reading →
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Guide to Herman Bavinck
At RHB
Herman Bavinck Online
Here (HT: Justin). I’ll add a permanent link to the blogroll.
Bavinck on Presumptive Regeneration (and Other Things)
In Saved By Grace just out from RHB. With the Bavinck conference and blog and new volumes coming out, there’s a veritable Bavinck Blizzard! This volume, like anything from Bavinck, is worth having and reading. I read part of it in a pre-publication . . . Continue reading →
Bavinck Conference Audio
At the Bavinck Blog.
Bavinck on Two Kingdoms
Shane has some interesting quotations on Bavink’s distinction between “the kingship of power” and “the kingship of grace.”
Bavinck and the "Sharp" Contrast Between Law and Gospel
Thanks to Shane at the Reformed Reader for posting some stimulating quotes.
Bavinck Contra Biblicism
Good stuff from Brandon Wilkins, a WSC grad, working through Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics. You can read more about biblicism in RRC. Update 12 Mar 2010 Brandon defends his reading of Bavinck.
New Bavinck Institute Website
Thanks to Laurence O’Donnell (Calvin Seminary PhD student in systematics) for the heads up regarding the new Bavinck Institute website. They are featuring Ron Gleason’s to-be-released bio of Bavinck himself and an online journal, The Bavinck Review. Well done!
Bavinck on the Creation Days
At the Reformed Reader.
Bavinck On Gospel In The Narrow Sense
And indeed, strictly speaking, there are no demands and conditions in the gospel but only promises and gifts. Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification (and so forth). Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, 4.454 (HT: James . . . Continue reading →
Bavinck On Eternal Generation
[226] The special qualification of the second person in the Trinity is filiation. In Scripture he bears several names that denote his relation to the Father, such as word, wisdom, logos, son, the firstborn, only-begotten and only son, the image of God, . . . Continue reading →
Christ Condignly Merited His Glorification
[399] But a great many Reformed theologians believed otherwise and answered the above question in the affirmative. In their opinion, the answer to Christ’s prayer (John 11:42; Heb. 5:7) and especially the entire state of exaltation from the resurrection to his coming . . . Continue reading →
Bavinck: The Image Is Not In Man But Is Man
Now this splendid view of the image of God and of original righteousness has come more clearly into its own in the Reformed church and Reformed theology than in the Lutheran. In Lutheran theology the image of God is restricted to original . . . Continue reading →
Bavinck’s Critique Of Pietism
Like so many other efforts at reforming life in Protestant churches, Pietism and Methodism were right in their opposition to dead orthodoxy. Originally their intention was only to arouse a sleeping Christianity; they wished not to bring about a change in the . . . Continue reading →
Bavinck Distinguished Law And Gospel
Bavinck: Grace Does Not Destroy Nature
Regeneration does not erase individuality, personality or character, Continue reading →
Bavinck Contra The Donum Super Additum
It was called a “covenant of nature,” not because it was deemed to flow automatically and naturally from the nature of God or the nature of man, but because the foundation on which the covenant rested, that is, the moral law, was known . . . Continue reading →
Muller: Rethinking The Relation Between Kuyper, Bavinck, And Scholasticism
One writer notes that “Kuyper reflected critically on what he perceived as an increasing emphasis on natural theology through the early centuries of the Reformed tradition,” while another indicates that Kuyper’s views on common grace opened up a place for natural theology. . . . Continue reading →
Bavinck On The Old And New Man
True, we speak of an old and a new man in the believer, and so we give expression to the fact that in the new life the whole man has in principle been changed, and that nevertheless the power of sin continues . . . Continue reading →