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Since his Reformed Dogmatics was translated into English in the last decade, 19th-century Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck has gained wide popularity among pastors and theologians in the 21st century. Christian Worldview, another of his foundational works, is here translated into English for the first time, introducing more of Bavinck’s ideas to a contemporary audience. This book was originally...

world is nominalistically2 divided into its parts; with the latter [i.e., rationalism], reality is hyper-realistically identified with the idea. In the former, the danger of sensualism and materialism threatens, and in the latter, that of idealism and monism. With both, the concept of truth, of “conformity of intellect and thing” [conformitas intellectus et rei], a correspondence between thinking and being, is lost. For in empiricism it falls together with the empirical, sensibly perceptible reality,
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