Essays on Religion, Science, and Society (Herman Bavinck, John Bolt)

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"Here an amazing nineteenth-century Calvinist mind addresses with much wisdom a twenty-first-century intellectual agenda!"--Richard J. Mouw, Fuller Theological Seminary

Herman Bavinck, the premier theologian of the Kuyper-inspired, neo-Calvinistic revival in the late-nineteenth-century Netherlands, is an important voice in the development of Protestant theology. This volume, now in paper, is the capstone of his distinguished career. These seminal essays offer an outworking of Bavinck's systematic theology as presented in his Reformed Dogmatics and engage enduring issues from a biblical and theological perspective. The collection presents his mature reflections on issues relating to ethics, education, politics, psychology, natural science and evolution, aesthetics, and philosophy of religion. Pastors, students, and scholars of Reformed theology will value this work.

Endorsements

"I have long admired Bavinck as a major systematic theologian, but in these essays I discovered a Bavinck I never knew. He moves easily--and brilliantly--through adolescent psychology, conceptions of the unconscious, Islam, social contract theory, evolutionary thought, philology, and aesthetics, to name only a few of a broad set of topics. Here an amazing nineteenth-century Calvinist mind addresses with much wisdom a twenty-first-century intellectual agenda!"

Richard J. Mouw, president and professor of Christian philosophy, Fuller Theological Seminary

Table of Contents

Herman Bavinck: A Eulogy by Henry Elias Dosker

1. Philosophy of Religion (Faith)

2. The Essence of Christianity

3. Theology and Religious Studies

4. Psychology of Religion

5. Christianity and Natural Science

6. Evolution

7. Christian Principles and Social Relationships

8. On Inequality

9. Trends in Psychology

10. The Unconscious

11. Primacy of the Intellect or the Will

12. Trends in Pedagogy

13. Classical Education

14. Of Beauty and Aesthetics

15. Ethics and Politics

Appendix A: Foreword by C. B. Bavinck

Appendix B: Theology and Religious Studies in Nineteenth-Century Netherlands

Index

Product Details

Title: Essays on Religion, Science, and Society 

Author: Herman Bavinck, John Bolt

Publisher: Baker Academic

Pages: 304 

Binding: Paperback

Size: 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm

ISBN: 9780801048678