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Johan Herman Bavinck (1895–1964) was a prominent twentieth-century Dutch Calvinist missiologist who wrestled with the tension between religious absolutism and relativism, as many Christians do in today’s pluralistic context. The J. H. Bavinck Reader gathers together a choice selection of Bavinck’s significant writings that are essential for understanding his theology of missions, his approach to...

Christ.”7 Thus, with Clement too, general revelation assumed a place of great importance because he based the many true and profound sayings found in ancient Greek philosophical writings in general revelation. After the gospel had spread among the gentiles, the need to pursue the issue of general revelation and the non-Christian religions significantly diminished. Similarly, later interaction between the church and less intellectually developed tribes did not spur the church to further reflection
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