G.C. Berkouwer: Inerrancy is Foreign to the World of Scripture (January 17, 2015)

Ptolemy's World Map from Geographia, c. 150 c.e. (source: wikipedia) Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer (1903-1996) was a famous Dutch Reformed Theologian who worked within the same illustrious Dutch Calvinist tradition as Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck. In G.C. Berkouwer's Studies in Dogmatics: Holy Scripture, is a famous argument against inerracy that I've quoted in toto […]

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G. C. Berkouwer explains Karl Barth’s Eschatology (November 21, 2014)

Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer  (1903-1996)[source: librarything]G.C. Berkouwer was a Dutch Reformed Theologian in the Amsterdam tradition along with theological greats including Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck and H. Berkof. Berkouwer wrote an excellent introduction to Karl Barth's theology titled, The Triumph of Grace in the Theology of Karl Barth: An Introduciton and Critical […]

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Herman Bavinck’s Organic Inspiration of the Scriptures (September 24, 2014)

Herman Bavinck (source: rpcnacovenanter) Herman Bavinck was a Dutch Calvinist who wrote an influential Reformed Dogmatics, and this is part two in my analysis of Bavinck's Doctrine of Inspiration of the Scriptures. As I previously shared, the Dutch Calvinists were not encumbered in fundamentalist debates over inerrancy like their American Calvinist […]

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Herman Bavinck on the Inspired Scripture’s Capacity for Errors (September 23, 2014)

Herman Bavinck (source: wikipedia) The Dutch Calvinists, such as Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, and G.C. Berkouwer, were not paralyzed by the mechanical theories of the Inspiration of Scriptures as their American Calvinist counterparts at old Princeton did with Inerrancy, including Charles Hodge, B.B. Warfield and A.A. Hodge.  In the following brilliant selection from […]

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Abraham Kuyper and Karl Barth on Creation as Revelation (June 10, 2013)

In Judeo-Christian history of thought, there's always been core belief that God is creator, and that the world has not always existed but was creation by God in the beginning. (Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen […]

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Esther by Abraham Kuyper (October 15, 2012)

Abraham Kuyper wrote two books on biblical women characters: Women of the Old Testament: 50 Devotional Messages For Women's Groups,  and Women of the New Testament: 30 Devotional Messages for Women's Groups. These two books contain a 2-3 page assessment of each principle women in the bible, describe the good, the bad and […]

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Abraham Kuyper on Melchizedek (August 21, 2012)

Abraham Kuyper is among my favorites of the Dutch Calvinists. Here's a selection from his Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology on Melchizedek.  63. Falsifications of the Conception of Theology The falsifications of Theology as science bear an entirely different character. By these we do not refer to the heretical divergencies, such as Protestants assert […]

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Abraham Kuyper on Hegel, Schleiermacher and Natural Theology (June 22, 2012)

Abraham Kuyper Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) was a Dutch Reformed Theologian and Political, and in his massive three-volume Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology, I've quoted Kuyper's assessment of Hegel and Schleiermacher in regards to Natural Revelation. Beginning with the introduction in John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, the Reformed Church has defined its epistemology […]

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Abraham Kuyper on Ectypal Knowledge (May 25, 2012)

Abraham Kuyper in his Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology considers the widely discussed question "Is theology a science?" and "In What sense is theology a science?" Kuyper emphasizes through this book the necessity of palingenesia (i.e. regeneration) to have a right understanding of Christianity. In the following long quotation, Kuyper explains that a general comparison […]

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Abraham Kuyper on Adam and Anthropology (May 4, 2012)

Abraham Kuyper has many extended anecdotes on Adam, especially in regards to our Anthropology (i.e. What is Man?) that were through his Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology. I've gathered three extended quotes from this book and shared them here. Kuyper viewed the resurrection as a restoration of Adam to his pre-Fall (antelapsarianism?) , […]

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