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Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries Online

2021-07-28

The following is a list of major Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries that, with a few exceptions, have been published between 1990 and 2005 and that are now available for online borrowing.
Medieval Commentaries on Psalms Online

2019-05-03

The following is a list of medieval commentaries on the Book of Psalms that are available online. The list covers commentaries on Psalms from Western Christianity between 500 and 1500.
Was John Wesley the First to Put the Phrase “Agree to Disagree” in Print?

2019-04-12

As is well-known, John Wesley was an Arminian while George Whitefield kept to a Reformed understanding of the doctrine of election. As the story goes, “when Wesley had passed away, someone asked Whitefield whether he thought that he would see Wesley in heaven.
Psalms on Youtube

2018-07-25

Listen to all 150 psalms: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52,…
Herman Bavinck on Christian Piety (2)

2017-12-13

In 1900, Bavinck reviewed the first volume of C. B. Hylkema’s, Reformateurs, a study of rather extreme forms of Christian piety in the seventeenth century and attributed the excesses to a problematic understanding of the relationship between nature and grace. See Herman Bavinck on Christian Piety and Religious Fanaticism (which contains the Dutch text of Bavinck’s…
Herman Bavinck on Traveling and the Theology of Nature

2017-12-13

Summer 1900, the Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) wrote a short article on traveling, which included reflections on the theology of nature. The article was originally published as: Herman Bavinck, “Op reis” [Traveling], De Bazuin [The trumpet] 48, no 35 (August 31, 1900), available in Delpher. In 1900, Bavinck was the editor in chief of this weekly that was…
Herman Bavinck on Christian Piety and Religious Fanaticism

2017-12-13

The Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) is well-known for his reflections on the relationship between nature and grace. In the following article he attributes excesses in Christian piety to a misunderstanding of the proper relationship between nature and grace. The article was originally published in Dutch as: Herman Bavinck, “Christelijke vroomheid” [Christian piety], De Bazuin [The trumpet]…
Idealism and Realism: A Letter from Karl Barth to Hendrik Willem van der Vaart Smit

2014-11-12

The following is a letter from the famous Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886–1968) to Hendrik Willem van der Vaart Smit (1888–1986), a—somwehat controversial—student of the Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854–1921). The letter is kept in the H. W. van der Vaart Smit Archives, Historical Documentation Center for Dutch Protestantism (1800 to the present day), University…
A Strange Moment in the Reception History of Psalm 146

2014-06-27

According to Mark Water, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Christian Martyrs (Alresford: John Hunt, 2001), 908–9, when James Hannington (1847–1885), bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa on behalf of the Church Missionary Society, wanted to travel to Uganda, “he found himself reading words from Psalm 146[:9], ‘The Lord preserveth the strangers’” and “took this to be…
Neo-Calvinism, Roman Catholicism, and Reformed Catholicism

2014-02-14

September 4 and 5, 2014, a conference will be held on Neo-Calvinism (Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, Gerrit Berkouwer et al) and Roman Catholicism. The following are two comments regarding Bavinck that may stimulate reflection on the conference topic. Bavinck: (Neo-)Calvinist or Catholic Reformed? While I understand that “Neo-Calvinism” is a common term to refer to people…
A Night under the Open Sky

2014-02-01

Camping in the desert, I have the opportunity to watch the sky and see the stars at night. In the city one could do the same, but but clouds often cover the sky and earthly affairs usually make one forget to look upwards. …
Comments on Eric Bristley’s Guide to the Writings of Herman Bavinck

2014-02-01

Despite all its qualities, Bristley’s Guide to the Writings of Herman Bavinck contains some omissions and mistakes. The following are a few items that are missing: …
Nine Questions and My Answers to Them

2014-01-23

John Kenyon of the Institute for Global Church Studies asked me a number of good questions in his Facebook group. Below his questions with my answers. Christians and the Situation in Egypt 1. Are you free/comfortable to talk about the current political situation in Egypt and how the Church there is responding? First of all,…
Living God or Loving God?

2013-11-29

This week I received a review copy of John Bolt, A Theological Analysis of Herman Bavinck’s Two Essays on the Imitatio Christi: Between Pietism and Modernism, with a foreword by David Van Drunen (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013), which is a somewhat revised edition of Bolt’s 1982 doctoral dissertation. While my review is to…
Rick Warren Misinformed about Egypt

2013-10-23

Rick Warren wrote the following well-intended but misinformed message on Facebook and Google+: “PRAY for our Christian brothers and sisters being attacked in Maspero, Egypt! In October -over 4 days – 38 churches, 58 Christian homes, and 85 Christian businesses have been destroyed.” What is really the case?