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The Philosophy of Revelation: The Stone Lectures for 1908-1909, Princeton Theological Seminary is unavailable, but you can change that!

God speaks—but how? Philosophers and theologians have attempted various answers to this question for dozens of centuries, and their rhetoric has sharpened dramatically in the wake of nineteenth century liberalism. Herman Bavinck offers a Reformed perspective on divine revelation in The Philosophy of Revelation, which incorporates the content of his Stone Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary...

of the Reformation, but as the product of “a great and radical revolution.” In the so-called “Enlightenment” it presented the world with a new form of culture which differed in principle from the culture-ideal of the Reformation. Consequently not the sixteenth but the eighteenth century, not the Reformation but the “Enlightenment,” is the source of that world-view which, turning its back on all supranaturalism, thinks to find in this world all that science and religion, thought and life, can ask.
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