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What Does it Mean to call God Good?
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 503-516, July 2023., 2023 Contemporary expositions of God's goodness commonly err either (1) by subjecting God to moral laws, which is to question His sovereignty, or (2) by failing to establish that God will always act in accordance with moral principles, which removes the theist's ability to appeal to God's goodness in response to problems of evil.
Philip Peter Sivyer
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Forgiveness and the Novelty of Christian Ethics
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 472-489, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Christian faith, and particularly Christian Ethics, must wrestle with the questions of novelty and continuity posed by Scripture's declaration that a new thing has occurred with the advent of Jesus Christ. The contrasting perspectives on the Law by Thomas Aquinas and Herman Bavinck focus these questions and suggest that forgiveness is an ...
Andrew Errington
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Gloriously intertwined:A Bavinckian account of the single organism of dogmatics and ethics [PDF]
, 2022 Recent Bavinck studies show that Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) is not only a dogmatician but also an ethicist. This article seeks to demonstrate that, by intertwining dogmatics and ethics in a doxological way, that is, glorifying and exalting God in wonder ...
Xu, Ximian
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Zygon®, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 869-888, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Human death is natural from the perspective of evolutionary biology but unnatural from the vantage point of classical Christian theology. The biblical notion that death entered the world as a result of sin seems hard to square with the view that (human) death has been an integral part of the natural order all along.
Gijsbert van den Brink
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Religious Controversy in Comparative Context: Ulster, the Netherlands and South Africa in the 1920s
History, Volume 106, Issue 371, Page 429-455, July 2021., 2021 Abstract This article introduces a comparative element to the study of the fundamentalist–modernist controversies of the late 1920s, demonstrating that similar ideas are manifested differently in different spatial contexts. Although fundamentalism is primarily considered an American phenomenon, the article argues that the concerns animating ...
Stuart Mathieson, Abraham C. Flipse
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Herman Bavinck and same-sex marriage: A current application of older theological concepts
In die Skriflig, 2023 It seems like an anachronism to turn to Herman Bavinck for a vision of homosexual relationships in the church. It is indeed an anachronism when we look at Bavinck’s treatment of this phenomenon.
Willem van Vlastuin
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Memikirkan Kembali Misi Trinitaris
Verbum Christi, 2020 Artikel ini merupakan tinjauan terhadap pemikiran Lesslie Newbigin dan Johan Herman Bavinck dalam memikirkan basis Trinitas terhadap teologi misi. Kedua misionaris ini sepakat untuk melandasi misi berdasarkan doktrin Trinitas.
Doni Herwanto Harianja, Antonius S. Un
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A Concise Assessment of Dutch Ecclesiastical and Theological Impacts on Jenő Sebestyén’s Thinking
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Theologia Reformata Transylvanica, 2023 Jenő Sebestyén, professor of systematic theology from Budapest, is often portrayed as the founding father of historical Calvinism in Hungary. The theological movement exhibits clearly a Dutch impact.
Ábrahám KOVÁCS , László SZABÓ
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Revisiting the ‘Reformed Objection’ to Natural Theology [PDF]
, 2009 In the present paper I address two significant and prevalent errors concerning to natural theology within the Reformed theological tradition.
Sudduth, Michael
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In die Skriflig, 1986 Dit is opvallend hoe aktueel die Nederlandse Gereformeerde dogmatikus, Herman Bavinck, steeds bly. (Onlangs is sy Dogmatiek, waarvan deel I in 1895 verskyn het, herdruk!) Natuurlik hang dit alles met ’n wye reeks faktore saam, nie die minste nie met ...
J. H. van Wyk
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