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ESSAYS ON RELIGION, SCIENCE & SOCIETY
Herman Bavinck
ESSAYS ON RELIGION, SCIENCE & SOCIETY by Herman Bavinck
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. Essays on Religion, Science, and Society 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 work presents his mature reflections on issues relating to ethics, education, politics, psychology, natural science and evolution, aesthetics, and philosophy of religion. This collection--Bavinck's most significant remaining untranslated work--is now available in English for the first time. Pastors, students, and scholars of Reformed theology will value this work.
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
Although all of these essays are more an 100 years old, it is quite amazing how applicable they are for today. Even those that (due to their subject matter) prove to be more dated, are quite significant in helping to understand history and where the world we live in today came from and how we can live in this world as Christians.
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
"To read [these essays] is to be forcefully reminded that Bavinck was not merely a theologian in the narrow sense, but a broad Christian thinker active in the academy, the church, and the state. . . . The general strength of the book is simply Bavinck's example. Here is the record of a keen mind, an irenic spirit, and a methodical laborer, grounded in the Scriptures and applying it to a host of questions."--Cliff L. Blair, New Horizons
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