This Companion to Theologian Herman Bavinck’s Christian Worldview Explores Christianity’s Contributions to Higher Education After writing his well-known book Christian Worldview, Dutch Calvinist theologian and scholar Herman Bavinck focused his attention on how the Christian faith benefits higher learning, particularly religious studies, natural sciences, and the humanities. Christian…
"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere . . . God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous." This book is not an autobiography. It is not a confession. It is, however, certainly one of the most beautiful and insightful accounts of a person coming to faith. Here, C.S. Lewis takes us from his childhood in Belfast through …
A century ago when this book was first published, marriage and the family were already weathering enormous changes, and that trend has not abated. Yet by God?s power the unchanging essence of marriage and the family remains proof, as Bavinck notes, that God?s ?purpose with the human race has not yet been achieved.? Neither a ten-step guide nor a one-sided approach, this book embodies a Christia…
Recent discussions of creation have centered on the skirmishes between creationists and evolutionists. However, as the editor of this volume points out, there is much more to the Christian doctrine of creation than scientific battles about origins and the age of the earth. To Herman Bavinck, the doctrine of creation, affirming the distinction between the Creator and his creature, is the startin…
"This is one of those seminal works that embodies a significant portion of our Reformed theological heritage. We all should rejoice to see this material finally available in English!" --Samuel T. Logan Jr., Westminster Theological Seminary "Like Augustine, Calvin, and Edwards, Bavinck was a man of giant mind, vast learning, ageless wisdom, and great expository skill. Solid but lucid, demand…
Buku ketiga dari Dogmatika Reformed karya Bavinck ini mencakup doktrin tentang dosa dan keselamatan, dengan pembahasan meliputi asal-usul dosa, penyebaran dosa, natur dosa, hukuman bagi dosa; kovenan anugerah, Pribadi Kristus, perendahan dan peninggian Kristus dan urutan keselamatan.
Pada saat natur skolastik dari theologi sistematik dikecam keras, Dogmatika Reformed menunjukkan manfaat dari perenungan yang cermat dan terus-menerus akan kebenaran Kristen yang setia kepada gereja dan berinteraksi dengan dunia akademis. Dogmatika Reformed dari Herman Bavinck telah menjadi rujukan theologi Reformed selama seratus tahun terakhir. Jilid 1 ini merupakan rangkaian dari keempat …
"What a wonderful gift to the English-speaking theological world! The topics explored by Bavinck are still of the utmost importance, and he addresses them here in a theological voice that is amazingly fresh. I pray that the appearance of this volume signals the beginnings of a Bavinck revival!" --Richard J. Mouw, Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics, Calvin Univer…
Pada saat natur skolastik dari theologi sistematik dikecam keras, Dogmatika Reformed menunjukkan manfaat dari perenungan yang cermat dan terus-menerus akan kebenaran Kristen yang setia kepada gereja dan berinteraksi dengan dunia akademis. Dogmatika Reformed dari Herman Bavinck telah menjadi rujukan theologi Reformed selama seratus tahun terakhir. Jilid 2 ini merupakan rangkaian dari keempat …