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Herman Bavinck’s Our Reasonable Faith=The Wonderful Works of God – corrections to the translation
This is a truly wonderful book, written in Dutch in 1908 with the title Magnalia Dei, translated in the 1950s and called Our Reasonable Faith, and now reissued in the same translation as The wonderful works of God. I have … Continue reading
World Harvest Mission’s Sonship Course
I’m still struggling to grasp clearly what a number of dear Reformed Christians, who love John Calvin and Herman Bavinck just as I do, find objectionable about the Sonship Course published by WHM – it’s a discipleship course with 16 … Continue reading
Pastoral counselling, and pietism v neo-Calvinism
I had a public debate – of a friendly variety I hasten to add – with Phillip Jenses, Dean of Sydney Anglican Cathedral, last Friday, when he was speaking at St Helens Bishopsgate. He had said that pastoral counselling is … Continue reading
The trouble with the Puritans
I read this in Thomas Manton’s “The life of faith”, from the second appendix on faith when hearing the word (p171 of vol.15 of old ed. of his works) [by the way, Manton is one of the most balanced of … Continue reading
The foundation for personal growth
Reading the chapter on Stress (of all things!) in Peter White’s excellent book, The effective pastor (the best all-round, Biblical, believing, sensible, realistic book on the work of a pastor that I’ve come across) prompted the following meditation on the … Continue reading
God’s incomprehensibility
Sometimes Christians worry about how 2 passages in the Bible can both be true at the same time (where did Jesus meet Bartimaeus?), or about how 2 major truths fit together (God’s love for everyone, with his genuine offer of … Continue reading
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Persuading the confused
In his Essays on religion, science and society, p43, Herman Bavinck says we should not berate people whose view of Christ is somewhat defective, if they do have a basic, gut-level bias towards Christ; but we should accept their profession … Continue reading
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