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Bavinck on the Christian Life: Following Jesus in Faithful Service is unavailable, but you can change that!

Herman Bavinck looms large as one of the nineteenth century’s greatest Christian thinkers, contributing much to modern Reformed theology. Yet, despite his theological prowess, Bavinck was first and foremost concerned with being “a worthy follower of Jesus.” In this book, John Bolt—editor of the English edition of Bavinck’s four-volume masterpiece, Reformed Dogmatics—brings the great Dutch...

This chapter is the longest and most demanding in the book. It is the heart of part 1 (“Foundations for Christian Living”) and the volume as a whole. This chapter comes third in this section because union with Christ logically follows creation and the law of God. Recall our earlier maxim: We are human before we are Christian, and we are Christian to be truly human. This fundamental reciprocity of dual identities—being human and being Christian—is the key to Bavinck’s understanding
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