RT Article
T1 The Scientific Calling of the Church: Herman Bavinck's Exhortation for the Churches in Mainland China
JF Studies in world christianity
VO 27
IS 2
SP 145
OP 169
A1 Xu, Ximian
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1761244191
AB Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) describes the twofold scientific calling of the Church. First, the Church needs to read the historic Reformed confessions contextually and distill the Reformed principles to meet its contemporary needs. Second, the Church should pursue a scientific (wetenschappelijke) life, particularly in the university. Bavinck's twofold theological insight can be applied to the churches in mainland China. The first reminds Chinese Reformed churches of the necessity of composing a Sino-Reformed confession. The second insight exhorts churches to develop scientific life publicly. In this sense, the scientific calling of the church, which Bavinck envisaged more than a century before, can be fulfilled in the twenty-first-century mainland China. 1
K1 Public Theology
K1 theology and university
K1 State–church relations
K1 Reformed confession
K1 Chinese Reformed theology
K1 Herman Bavinck
DO 10.3366/swc.2021.0340