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Herman Bavinck lived from 1854-1921 and was the son of Jan Bavinck, a minister of the Afscheding (Seceded) churches in the Netherlands. He, much to the surprise of his family, chose to study at the modernist University of Leiden, where he composed his doctoral thesis on the ethics of Ulrich Zwingli. However, this time at Leiden did not subvert Bavinck's Reformed foundations. He went on to become a professor at the seminary of the Seceded Churches in Kampen and would later join Abraham Kuyper at the Free University of Amsterdam. Bavinck's field was dogmatics and he made several important written contributions in this area, the most noteworthy of which was his four volume Gereformeerde Dogmatiek (Reformed Dogmatics, presently being translated into English). Bavinck introduced the notion of organic inspiration of the Scriptures and also developed a solution to the infra/supralapsarian conundrum. Although Bavinck died in 1921, he remains a powerful force in Reformed theology. Several important Reformed theologians owe large debts to him, including Cornelius VanTil and Louis Berkhof.

Resources in This Category

• Calvin and Common Grace

  http://www.contra-mundum.org/books/Calvin.pdf
  Written to commemorate the four hundredth birthday of John Calvin.

• Herman Bavinck

  http://www.hermanbavinck.org/
  Online biography, articles, and bibliography.

• History of the Doctrine of the Decree of Predestination

  http://www.the-highway.com/Bavinck_predestination.html
  Bavinck on Predestination.

• Princeton Theological Review: Herman Bavinck

  http://scdc.library.ptsem.edu/mets/mets.aspx?src=BR1922203&div=5
  Memorial article by colleague Henry Elias Dosker.

• Supralapsarianism and Infralapsarianism

  http://www.the-highway.com/Bavinck_predestination2.html
  Article by Bavinck, pointing out the truth in each point of view, as well as the difficulties.

• The Divine and Human Nature of Christ

  http://articles.ochristian.com/article3127.shtml
  Bavinck's writing on Christ as Son of God and also a perfect human.

• The Origin, Essence, and Purpose of Man

  http://www.the-highway.com/origin_Bavinck.html
  Bavinck discussions the creation of man vs. evolution, man's nature and purpose as designed by God.

• Wikipedia: Herman Bavinck

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Bavinck
  Brief biographical entry.

 

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