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Crucial themes and issues explored by a premier missiologist Johan
Herman Bavinck (1895-1964) was a prominent twentieth-century Dutch
Calvinist missiologist who wrestled with the tension between
religious absolutism and relativism, as many Christians do in
today's pluralistic context. The J. H. Bavinck Reader gathers
together a choice selection of Bavinck's significant writings that
are essential for understanding his theology of missions, his
approach to world religions, and his religious psychology. His
treatment of religious consciousness and Christian faith expands on
the brief treatment of it in his own work The Church Between Temple
and Mosque. The concluding chapters show how Bavinck's theoretical
reflection on religious consciousness was rooted in his close
observation during his years as a missionary in Indonesia. Offering
a constructive way forward, Bavinck affirms both the particularity
of salvation in Christ and the universality of the Christian hope.
A substantial introduction enhances the book with the most thorough
biographical sketch of Bavinck available.
Anthology of select articles from a notable Protestant periodical
For forty years, from 1951 to 1990, The Reformed Journal set the
standard among both evangelical and mainline Protestants for
top-notch, venturesome reflection on a range of issues as diverse
as the civil rights movement, the rebirth of feminism, the Vietnam
War, South African apartheid, the plight of Palestinian Christians,
and the rise of the Christian Right. With a lively, progressive mix
of comment, opinion, and reviews it addressed the whole world of
public life and expression from a coherent Reformed point of view.
In The Best of The Reformed Journal James Bratt and Ronald Wells
have collected and assembled a critical anthology of the
periodical?'s best representative writing, selecting pieces that
cut across time and content and that exemplify the Journal?'s
long-running position at the cutting edge of thoughtful Christian
engagement with culture.
The definitive biography of Abraham Kuyper, giant of Dutch
Calvinism This is the first full-scale English-language biography
of the highly influential and astonishingly multifaceted Abraham
Kuyper (1837-1920) -- theologian, minister, politician, newspaper
editor, educational innovator, Calvinist reformer, and prime
minister of the Netherlands from 1901 to 1905. James Bratt is the
ideal scholar to tell the story of Kuyper's remarkable life and
work. He expertly traces the origin and development of Kuyper's
signature concepts -- common grace, Christian worldview, sphere
sovereignty, Christian engagement with contemporary culture -- in
the dynamic context of his life's story. Based on voluminous
primary and secondary Dutch sources, Bratt's Abraham Kuyper: Modern
Calvinist, Christian Democrat will prove to be the go-to biography
of this major figure whose ideas and influence extend far beyond
his own time and place.
This book samples the rich variety of worship practices in American
history to show how worship can be a fruitful subject for
historians to study and, alternatively, how past case studies can
enrich our understanding of worship today.
By the Vision of Another World gathers highly regarded historians
and other scholars who usually are not read together because of the
widely different subject areas in which they typically work. Yet
their essays all fit together here as they address how worship,
work, and worldview converge and reinforce each other no matter
what particular place, era, denomination, or ethnic group is under
consideration. The variety of methodologies and voices will appeal
to a breadth of critical interests, while the consistently high
quality of historical narrative will keep readers engaged.
Contributors
Dorothy C. Bass
James D. Bratt
Ruth Alden Doan
Paul Harvey
George M. Marsden
Timothy Matovina
Harry S. Stout
Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Michael Woods
Joyce Ann Zimmerman
Traditional ways of living the Christian faith-shaped and guided by
confessional norms-exhibit remarkable staying power in American
religious life. Holding On to the Faith addresses issues related to
the persistence of confessional forms of Christianity in the face
of utilitarian, democratic, evangelical American popular religious
culture. Whereas historians in the twentieth century typically used
terms like "countervailing", "alternative", or "immigrant faith" to
describe confessional Christianity, it is now clear that groups
which have maintained roots in doctrinal, liturgical, and
institutional traditions are an integral part of American life. In
Holding On to the Faith ten scholars of American religion
contribute chapters analyzing the American experience of ecclesial
groups ranging from Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism to the
Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican/Episcopal, and even Mennonite
traditions. Editors Douglas A. Sweeney and Charles Hambrick-Stowe
discuss common themes and pose questions for further discussion.
Having grown out of a 2004 consultation sponsored by the John
Knox International Reformed Center, the University of Geneva, and
the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the essays in "John Calvin
Rediscovered" revive the social and economic thought of John
Calvin, first exploring Calvin in his own time and then turning to
Calvin's global influence.
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