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'Bavinck oor kerkeenheid' [PDF]
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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Reformation or Revolution? Herman Bavinck and Henri de Lubac on Nature and Grace
Henri de Lubac’s treatment of the relationship between nature and grace will be critiqued by Herman Bavinck’s ‘grace restores nature’ theme. In two significant addresses, Bavinck critiqued a Roman Catholic approach to nature and grace.
Parker Gregory W.
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What Does it Mean to call God Good?
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
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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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
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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Discerning Culture with Herman Bavinck [PDF]
Bavinck does not intend that we simply adopt and casually integrate secular ideas into our Christian worldview. Instead, every idea must be brought into conformity with Christ. Posting about Christianity\u27s influence in a hostile world from In
Thompson, John B.
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Some benefits of going organic: Herman Bavinck’s theology of the visible church [PDF]
The thought of the Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) has aroused a great deal of interest of late as a result of the publication of a newly-translated English edition of his magisterial Reformed Dogmatics. James Eglinton’s study of his doctrine
Eglinton, James
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Theological thinking and loving: dogmatics and ethics in the theology of Herman Bavinck [PDF]
In James Eglinton's 2011 editorial, "Bavinck: Dogmatics and Ethics," he asserted that the greatest issue facing Bavinck studies in the English-speaking world was understanding the relationship between Bavinck's dogmatics and ethics.1 This project seeks ...
Parker, Gregory
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Herman Bavinck and same-sex marriage: A current application of older theological concepts
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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