Essays on Religion, Science, and Society
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Herman Bavinck, the premier theologian of the Kuyper-inspired, neo-Calvinistic revival in the late-nineteenth–century Netherlands, was 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 a look at 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
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Key Features
- Bavinck’s personal perspectives on several social issues
- Synopsis of Bavinck’s theological standpoint
- Eulogy for Herman Bavinck by Henry Elias Dosker
Contents
- Philosophy of Religion (Faith)
- The Essence of Christianity
- Theology and Religious Studies
- Psychology of Religion
- Christianity and Natural Science
- Evolution
- Christian Principles and Social Relationships
- On Inequality
- Trends in Psychology
- The Unconscious
- Primacy of the Intellect of the Will
- Trends in Pedagogy
- Classical Education
- Of Beauty and Aesthetics
- Ethics and Politics
Praise for the Print Edition
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
Like Augustine, Calvin, and Edwards, Bavinck was a man of giant mind, vast learning, ageless wisdom, and great expository skill, and to have these volumes now in full English is a wonderful enrichment. Solid but lucid, demanding but satisfying, broad and deep and sharp and stabilizing, Bavinck’s magisterial Reformed Dogmatics remains after a century the supreme achievement of its kind.
—J. I. Packer, Regent College
Product Details
- Title: Essays on Religion, Science, and Society
- Authors: Herman Bavinck
- Editor: John Bolt
- Translators: Harry Boonstra and Gerrit Sheeres
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Publication Date: 2013
- Pages: 304
About Herman Bavinck
Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) succeeded Abraham Kuyper as professor of systematic theology at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1902.