Calvin, Kuyper, and Bavinck is not only possible but necessary and mandatory. Their systematic theologies did not aim at a closed system. Nor did they seek to produce a system of theology by means of logical deduction from a few given principles. Rather, they sought believingly to reproduce and systematize the revelation of God as this is given to us by the Scriptures. The basic opposition to systematic theology in this sense stems today from a view of Scripture which is radically different from
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