Herman Bavinck showed that othodox theology continues to speak authoritatively today.
Since the English translation from Dutch of Herman Bavinck's magisterial 4-volume Reformed Dogmatics , there has been a blossoming interest in Bavinck's theology.
Readers have been drawn to Bavinck for his faithfulness to the Reformed tradition while also engaging the questions of 19th-century Europe.
Far from simply revisiting the older dogmatic systems, Bavinck faithfully engages modern trends like historical-criticism, the epistemological problems raised by Kant, the rationalism of the philosophes , and the radical changes ushered in through the French and European revolutions.
The question then is, was Bavinck orthodox, modern, or both ? In Orthodox yet Modern , Cory C.
Brock argues that Bavinck acts as a bridge between orthodox and modern views, insofar as he subsumes the philosophical-theological questions and concepts of theological modernity under the conditions of his orthodox, confessional tradition.
By exploring the relation between Bavinck and Schleiermacher, Orthodox yet Modern presents Herman Bavinck as a theologian eager to engage the contemporary world, rooted in the catholic and Reformed tradition, absorbing the best of modernity while rejecting its excesses.
Bavinck represents a theologian who is at once orthodox, yet modern.
About author(s): Cory C.
Brock (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is assistant pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi.
He serves as adjunct professor of theology at Belhaven University in Jackson.
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Lexham Press Orthodox yet modern: herman bavinck's use of friedrich schleiermacher, paperback/cory c. brock
