Papers by Gijsbert van den Brink
Professor Henk van den Belt has done a great favor to Dutch Bavinck enthusiasts by making availab... more Professor Henk van den Belt has done a great favor to Dutch Bavinck enthusiasts by making available, for the first time, both the first (1901) and second (1903) editions of Herman Bavinck’s De zekerheid des geloofs (The Certainty of Faith) in one volume, in such a way that the reader can easily spot the differences between both editions.1 In addition, van den Belt included two preparatory lectures of Bavinck on the same topic, as well as two reactions to the first edition of De zekerheid des geloofs that Bavinck took very seriously.2 Van den Belt completed the volume by contextualizing and evaluating these edited Bavinck writings in his own forty-page essay.3 With all these features, Bavinck’s famous booklet can now be used not only for personal spiritual edification (as it always could) but also for theological and genealogical analysis.4
A fresh, inviting text on the content of the Christian faith in our contemporary context, this on... more A fresh, inviting text on the content of the Christian faith in our contemporary context, this one-volume systematic theology offers a splendid, orthodox explication of the Christian faith for peers, students, teachers, pastors and serious lay readers alike. The authors not only cover the traditional themes - God, creation, sin, Christology, Scripture, eschatology, and so on - but also relate those classical themes to such contemporary developments as Pentecostalism, postmodernism, and evolutionary theory.
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Papers by Gijsbert van den Brink