Herman Bavinck’s Use of Friedrich Schleiermacher
CORY C. BROCK
studies in historical and systematic theology
Orthodox yet Modern: Herman Bavinck’s Use of Friedrich Schleiermacher
Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology
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This book was made possible by
the Neo-Calvinism Research Institute.
The Neo-Calvinism Research Institute
at Theological Kampen University
examines the relationship among
religion, life, and thought,
how it takes shape, and
how it develops over
time in the global
tradition of
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For Ethan, Juliette, Ames, and Lewis
The Authority of Philosophy in Theological Modernities
Part 1: Deeply Misunderstood and Too Highly Esteemed
1. Reformed Catholicity between the Modern and Orthodox
Two-Bavincks and Organic Unity
Reformed Catholicity and its Task
Concerning the Nature of Proof
2. What Has Berlin to do with Kampen?
Schleiermacher and the Development of a Theologian
The Origins of Dutch Theological Division
German Thought from Groningen to the Modern School
A Foray into Vermittlungstheologie
Mediation Theology and the Ethical
3. The Kingdom, Conscience, and Consciousness
The Subject and the Early Years
On the Glaubenslehre: Defining Appropriation through Critique
Part 2: Appropriation: Knowing and Depending
4. Concerning the Unity of Being and Thinking
Understanding the Philosophy of Revelation
Kant’s Autonomy and Schleiermacher’s Dependence
Between Augustine and Schleiermacher
5. True Religion as Absolute Dependence
Religion as Feeling, Religion as Revelation
Between Calvin and Schleiermacher
The gratitude I owe at the completion of this project to so many is very inadequately expressed in these brief words of thanksgiving. From the inception of the idea to forego full-time ministry in the local church for a season to take up a time of study for the completion of the present text (even now stamped with a conclusion as it is), it appears there are nearly a multitude who have generously supported my family and me in some form. First, there are those from our home in Mississippi that pushed us ...
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About Orthodox Yet Modern: Herman Bavinck’s Use of Friedrich SchleiermacherHerman Bavinck showed that orthodox 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. |
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