Sin, the Menace to Certainty

Newly added to the articles section of the website: “Sin, the Menace to Certainty” by Joel Heflin, a paper presented at ETS, Nov. 2009. View the PDF here. “…This paper will present and evaluate Bavinck’s theology of sin and the donum superadditum. This paper will show that Bavinck’s doctrine of sin and salvation takes the  […]

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Introducing Herman Bavinck

Tuesday at Twin Lakes Fellowship, Dr. Ron Gleason presented an introduction to the life and writings of Herman Bavinck. His address is divided into six sections: (1) Bavinck the Pastor, (2) Bavinck the Theologian, (3) Bavinck the Churchman, (4) Bavinck the Man with Warts, (5) Bavinck the Statesman, and (6) Bavinck the Author. An excellent […]

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Thinking Like a Christian: The Prolegomena of Herman Bavinck

A new article on Bavinck in a new British journal, Ecclesia Reformanda … “Thinking Like a Christian: The Prolegomena of Herman Bavinck” (abstract only) by Matthew Roberts Abstract: This article outlines the main contours of Herman Bavinck’s Prolegomena. Bavinck’s insight was that theological method must be grounded in the substance of theology itself, specifically in […]

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Bavinck conference audio added …

[listen] John Bolt Herman Bavinck’s International Reception Sep 20 2008 10:30 am [listen] Paul J. Visser, Allan Janssen Religion, Mission, and Kingdom: A Comparison of Herman Bavinck and Johan Herman Bavinck Sep 20 2008 8:30 am [listen] Syd Hielema, Darwin Glassford Herman Bavinck and the Pearl/Leaven Imbalance in Contemporary Youth Ministry Sep 20 2008 8:30 […]

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Article added …

“Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms in the Thought of Herman Bavinck” by Nelson D. Kloosterman. Paper delivered at the “A Pearl and a Leaven: Herman Bavinck for the Twenty-First Century” conference at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, MI (September 19, 2008). Download PDF here.

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Quotable Bavinck

“Dogmatics is and ought to be divine thought totally entered into and absorbed in our human consciousness, freely and independently expressed in our language, in its essence the fruit of centuries, in its form contemporary.” (Reformed Dogmatics, 1:83)

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