Ontology and revelation in Bavinck's Stone Lectures

This essay examines Herman Bavinck's Stone Lectures (1908), published as Philosophy of Revelation, for indications of a noteworthy conception of the relation between ontology and revelation. One discovers in the lectures that in responding constructively to various challenges to the Christian f...

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Main Author: Shannon, Nathan D. 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2020]
In: Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 73, Issue: 2, Pages: 112-125
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bavinck, Herman 1854-1921 / Revelation
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
NBB Doctrine of Revelation
Further subjects:B Revelation
B Herman Bavinck
B neo-Calvinism
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Summary:This essay examines Herman Bavinck's Stone Lectures (1908), published as Philosophy of Revelation, for indications of a noteworthy conception of the relation between ontology and revelation. One discovers in the lectures that in responding constructively to various challenges to the Christian faith, Bavinck pushes in a direction documented in recent studies of his work: toward doctrinal organicism. What emerges in terms of ontology and revelation is Bavinck's belief that Christianity is distinguished primarily by confession of a real divine relational initiative, understood in terms of the incarnation, which serves as the ontological precondition of divine revelation and thus as vindication of creaturely naming of God.
ISSN:1475-3065
Contains:Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0036930620000241