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Reformed Dogmatics, Volume 1: Prolegomena is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this prefatory volume to the Reformed Dogmatics, Bavinck discusses the science, method, and organization of dogmatic theology. He gives deep insight into the differences that exist between the dogmatic theologies of Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and Reformists. Bavinck adeptly sets up the rest of his Reformed theology by defining his terms and his understanding of the nature of divine revelation...

Here it is enough to point out that ultimately no one can deny to dogma an invariable, permanent element. People may regard the genuine core of a dogma as being ever so small and sharply restrict the element of truth concealed in it (say, to the religion of the Sermon on the Mount, to the personal faith of Jesus, to the “essence of Christianity” distilled into a number of abstract generalities, or to religious feeling or religious experience), but one who clings to the truth of religion cannot do
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