Product Description

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. "Bavinck was a man of giant mind, vast learning, ageless wisdom, and great expository skill. Solid but lucid, demanding but satisfying, broad and deep and sharp and stabilizing, Bavinck's magisterial Reformed Dogmatics remains after a century the supreme achievement of its kind."-J. I. Packer, Regent College

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #373293 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 704 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780801026553
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Good translation of a classic
This is one of the classics of reformed theology. Bavinck provides rich overviews and profound views on the topics under discussion. If you are not always satisfied, be sure that Bavinck was neither by the end of his life. However, reading this volume will prevent you from offering cheap solutions to difficult questions. (Reformed) theologians can only gain from a critical (re)engagement with Bavinck.
This volume is well translated and well edited. Having made several comparisons with the Dutch original (Dutch being my mother tongue), I recommend this volume without hesitation to all those readers who are not proficient in Dutch. To be sure, I have noticed a few flaws, but they do not make the translation unreliable. Moreover, Dutch readers will appreciate this volume since Bavincks Latin quotations have been translated into English as well, each chapter is introduced with a summary and the bibliography contains full references instead of Bavinck's sometimes cryptic abbreviations.