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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...

itself in a unique faith and doctrine. Now when dogmatics is understood in this sense, it ceases to be dogmatics and simply becomes the account of what in a certain specific circle is held to be true in the sphere of religion. But science aims at truth. If dogmatics aims to be real science, it cannot be content with the description of what is but must demonstrate what has to be considered truth. It must set forth not the that (ὁτι) but the wherefore (διοτι), not reality but truth, not the real but
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