Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 2

In partnership with the Dutch Reformed Translation Society Baker Academic is proud to offer the second volume of Herman Bavinck's complete Reformed Dogmatics in English for the very first time. This masterwork will appeal to scholars, students, pastors, and laity interested in Reformed theology and to research and theological libraries.

Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) succeeded Abraham Kuyper as professor of systematic theology at the Free University in Amsterdam in 1902. John Bolt is professor of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. The late John Vriend translated many classic theological works.

Dutch Reformed Translation Society

9

(1)

Preface

10

(1)

Editor's Introduction

11

(16)

Part I: Knowing God

The Incomprehensibility of God

27

(26)

Before the Divine Mystery

God and the Gods

Divine Incomprehensibility in Christian Theology

Philosophical Agnosticism

The Mystery of an Absolute, Personal God

The Knowledge of God

53

(42)

The Problem of Atheism

The Implanted Knowledge of God

Objections to Innate Ideas

Innate Disposition

The Acquired Knowledge of God

Proofs for God's Existence

The Proofs: An Appraisal

Part II: The Living, Acting God

The Names of God

95

(53)

Biblical Names for God

Classifying God's Names

Divine Simplicity; Essence and Attributes

Classifying God's Attributes

God's Proper Names

God's Incommunicable Attributes

148

(30)

Independence

Immutability

Infinity

Unity

Simplicity

God's Communicable Attributes

178

(78)

God's Spiritual Nature

Intellectual Attributes

Moral Attributes

Attributes of Sovereignty

Perfection, Blessedness, and Glory

The Holy Trinity

256

(81)

Old Testament Seeds

Intertestamental Judaism

The New Testament

Development of Trinitarian Dogma

The Opposition: Arianism and Sabellianism

Trinitarian Terminology

Distinctions among the Three Persons

East and West

The Trinitarian Economy

Trinitarian Analogies and Arguments

The Importance of Trinitarian Dogma

Part III: God's Will on Earth as It Is in Heaven

The Divine Counsel

337

(69)

The Teaching of Scripture

Augustine and the Pelagian Challenge

The Reformation Return to Paul and Augustine

Supra- and Infralapsarianism

Remonstrance and Resistance

The Scope of God's Decree

Providence

Response to Pelagianism

Predestination

Inadequacy of Supra- and Infralapsarianism

Reprobation

Election

Creation

406

(37)

Creation and Its Religious Alternatives: Pantheism and Materialism

Creatio ex Nihilo

The Creator Is the Triune God

Creation and Time

Creation's Goal

A Creation-Based Worldview

Part IV: Maker of Heaven and Earth

Heaven: The Spiritual World

443

(30)

Reaching beyond the Boundary

The Angels in Scripture

Angelic Nature: Unity and Corporeality

Angels, Humanity, and Christ

The Ministry of Angels

Veneration of Angels

Earth: The Material World

473

(38)

The Week of Creation

The Six Days of Creation

The Hypotheses of the Natural Sciences

The Formation of the Earth

Harmonizing Science with Scripture

The Six-Day Week of Creation

Facts and Interpretations

The Flood Factor

Part V: The Image of God

Human Origins

511

(19)

Creation and Evolution: Darwinism

The Age of Humanity

The Unity of the Human Race

The Original Abode of Humanity

Human Nature

530

(33)

Defining the Image

The Reformation View of the Image

The Whole Person as the Image of God

Human Destiny

563

(28)

Covenant with Adam: Only the Beginning

Reformed and Other Views of Human Destiny

Human Destiny in Community

Creation and Traducianism

Part VI: God's Fatherly Care

Providence

591

(30)

The Language of Providence

Non-Christian Competitors

An Attempt at Definition

Concurrence: Secondary Causes

Providence as Government

Bibliography

621

(40)

Select Scripture Index

661

(2)

Name Index

663

(14)

Subject Index

677

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Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 2

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