Neo-Calvinism

A Theological Introduction

Cory C. Brock

and

N. Gray Sutanto

Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction

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Contents

Abbreviations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

I Introduction

II Calvinism and Neo-Calvinism

III Catholic and Modern

IV Revelation and Reason

V Scripture and Organism

VI Creation and Re-creation

VII Image and Fall

VIII Common Grace and the Gospel

IX The Church and the World

X 16 Theses

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index

Abbreviations

BR The Bavinck Review

CG Abraham Kuyper. Common Grace: God’s Gifts for a Fallen World. Translated by Nelson D. Kloosterman and Ed M. van der Maas. Edited by Jordan J. Ballor and Stephen J. Grabill. 3 vols. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2015–2020.

CCC Herman Bavinck. “The Catholicity of Christianity and the Church.” Translated by John Bolt. Calvin Theological Journal 27 (1992): 220–51.

CTJ Calvin Theological Journal

CW Herman Bavinck. Christian Worldview. Translated by James Eglinton, Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, and Cory C. Brock. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020.

Encyclopedia Abraham Kuyper. Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology: Its Principles. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898.

GD Herman Bavinck. Gereformeerde Dogmatiek. 3rd ed. 4 vols. Kampen: Kok, 1918.

GE Herman Bavinck. Gereformeerde Ethiek. Utrecht: Kokboekcentrum, 2019.

KGHG Herman Bavinck. “The Kingdom of God, the Highest Good.” Translated by Nelson Kloosterman. BR 2 (2011): 133–70.

Lectures Abraham Kuyper. Lectures on Calvinism. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2008.

PoR Herman Bavinck. Philosophy of Revelation: A New Annotated Edition. Edited by Cory Brock and Nathaniel Gray Sutanto. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2018.

Pro Rege Abraham Kuyper. Pro Rege: Living under Christ’s Kingship. Translated by Albert Gootjes. Edited by John Kok and Nelson D. Kloosterman. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2016.

RD Herman Bavinck. Reformed Dogmatics. 4 vols. ...