Category: Bavinck

Dead Intellectuals, Fruitless Morals: Bavinck on a Fully Human Religion

by Joshua Shaw In the Prolegomena to his dogmatics Bavinck treats at various junctures the relationship between science and religion. In the eighth chapter of his work (“Religious Foundations”), he examines Science’s (in the sense of Wissenschaft) prerogative to judge religion according to its own standards, an endeavour he deems to have failed by the… Read More Dead Intellectuals, Fruitless Morals: Bavinck on a Fully Human Religion

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The Pagans and the Atheists in C. S. Lewis and Herman Bavinck

by Matthew Gaetano Joshua Shaw has been presenting Eusebius’s rich and complex polemic against paganism alongside his dialogue with Platonism. He has illuminated the reasons for the contrast between Eusebius’s approach and C. S. Lewis’s way of defending Christianity. Like many defenses of the Christian religion in the Renaissance and beyond (and in Late Antiquity… Read More The Pagans and the Atheists in C. S. Lewis and Herman Bavinck

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Pascal and Bavinck on Science and Theology

by Joshua Shaw In the beginning of Pascal’s Pensées, Part I, Chapter I (online here), there is the famous distinction between those subjects whose material is contained entirely in books, and so dependent entirely upon authority, and those subjects whose material (the corporeal world) is dependent upon sense perception (i.e., experience) and reason (paraphrasing the… Read More Pascal and Bavinck on Science and Theology

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Resurrection and History in Herman Bavinck

by Matthew Gaetano Herman Bavinck (1854-1921), a major Dutch Reformed theologian, professor at the Free University of Amsterdam, and author of the profoundly erudite Reformed Dogmatics in four volumes, gave the Stone Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary in the 1908-1909 academic year. He had already traveled to the United States to meet B. B. Warfield… Read More Resurrection and History in Herman Bavinck

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Nature and Grace in Reformed Orthodoxy: Is there a Problem with the Narrative? (Or, on having your cake without the layers)

The Regensburg Forum is pleased to feature a series of posts by Jonathan Tomes, beginning with explorations in the development of nature and grace in Reformed Orthodox thought. Modern Reformed Protestants have not always been the most reliable on those points touching diversity in their tradition, though this historical myopia likely besets every tradition. Much… Read More Nature and Grace in Reformed Orthodoxy: Is there a Problem with the Narrative? (Or, on having your cake without the layers)

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