James Eglinton
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Senior Lecturer in Reformed Theology @uoedivinity @EdinburghUni , bylines @TheTimes & others, Grace in Common pod, Bavinck bio @BakerAcademic , multilingual
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Lunch with
@timkellernyc
and dinner with
@CornelWest
. So much food for thought from both. What a day in NYC.
(And yes,
@cam_clausing
, we wanted you to join us in this picture.)
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I know other people have decent office views, but on snowy days I think mine is hard to beat (
@uoedivinity
).
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Psalm 100 on the streets of Edinburgh: “Know that the LORD is God indeed.”
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.
@timkellernyc
, relentless encourager, indefatigable and careful seeker of the truth, kind, brilliant, startlingly humble, a wonderful and generous friend, now nearing the end of a race he has run so well. Praying for him and his family today with gratitude and sadness. ❤️
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This is literally my actual life.
Imagine your life is just being here, studying, reading great books and discussing them with your friends 😍
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1/ When Jesus confronted Saul (who grew up in Greek-speaking Tarsus) on the road to Damascus, he quoted Euripides' Bacchae ("It is hard for you to kick against the pricks"). The line Jesus subverts is on the folly of a mortal (the petulant young King Pentheus) fighting against
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1/ No, the issue isn’t just people being squeamish or gutter minded. I think the article approaches the text with the wrong theological/exegetical method (bottom-up projection, not top-down analogical) which means it gets lost in the signpost & misses the mysterious thing
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@LeahBSassy
True story: one of our undergrads once wrote an essay that said, “It’s hard to tell which theologian made a better argument, Thomas, or Aquinas, as their views are so similar. But if I had to choose one, it would be Thomas.”
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Coming soon... J.H. Bavinck, Personality and Worldview, foreword by
@timkellernyc
, published by
@crossway
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Every school is a faith school. Some are just a lot more philosophically self-aware and up front about it than others.
'We really don’t need more faith schools in this country. I wish the government would prioritise inclusive schools, rather than using taxpayer’s money to fund the Church of England's indoctrination programme.' Our Vice President
@theAliceRoberts
.
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As the UK debates introducing assisted suicide, it's worth noting where this is now leading in the Netherlands, where the current debate is on extending assisted suicide to over 75s who aren't ill, but feel they have "completed life". Horrific.
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“The ‘old covenant’ isn’t the covenant of works, it’s the same covenant of grace as the ‘new covenant’, but in the Old Testament. We preach the gospel from the Old Testament for the same reason we baptise our infants.”
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1) A 🧵 on why Gaelic’s public visibility matters in Edinburgh: the usual nonsense about “nobody speaks it here” needs to stop. My family lives here and we speak it. My 4 kids are growing up in Edinburgh & Gaelic is their first language. The “nobody speaks it here” cliché
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This whole 🧵 is not “absolutely hilarious.” It’s “extremely funny”.
3/ At the Sermon on the Mount Jesus was not approached by his "disciples". He was approached by "learners."
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Slow burner take: old Christmas carols > contemporary Christmas worship songs in every regard (theology, catechetical power, anthropology, melody, lyrical composition, missiological impact in contemporary Western cultures, and much more).
And by > I mean vastly superior.
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I’ve waited my whole life to see na fir-chlis.
The heavens declare the glory of God.
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Typological hermeneutics:
In 1 & 2 Kings, the stories of the kings—mostly bad, some good—end with the question, “are the rest of his deeds not recorded in the chronicles of the kings?”
John’s Gospel ends with a statement: all the books in the world couldn’t contain his deeds.
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🚨BREAKING NEWS!🚨 My English translation of J.H. Bavinck's lucid and thought-provoking book Personality and Worldview is coming out with
@crossway
!
P&W is exactly the book needed to move today's worldview conversation forward in important and helpful ways. Exciting times ahead.
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My 7 year old just tried to get out of homework with a (historically correct) “but Bavinck was against homework.”
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1) The discussion around
@timkellernyc
recommending that people read *both* Machen *and* Cone is interesting to watch. In my undergrad intro to theology course, I make students read an ideologically diverse range of figures (Cone, Aquinas, Calvin, Tanner, Dulles...) and tell them
James Cone taught theology at Union Theological Seminary in NYC and he required students read Machen's "Christianity and Liberalism". Did he agree with it? No. But it was clear, well reasoned conservative theology and he wanted students to grapple with it. Those were the days!
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1/ Typological hermeneutics: the prophet Daniel was a righteous man in unrighteous Babylon. His righteousness was such that although death stalked him, it couldn’t quite catch him. Even when left in a tomb of death - sealed with a stone (Dan. 6:17) - he emerged alive.
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Medieval scholars did *not* believe the earth was flat. Pass it on.
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Well hello, new book.
J.H. Bavinck, Personality and Worldview, published by
@crossway
, foreword by
@timkellernyc
.
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Struck by how much my twitter feed is filled by Christians I don’t even follow, who tweet against others as a kind of blood sport (and draw quite a crowd). It makes me think of Augustine on Alypius & the effect of watching blood sport on the soul. I need to mute more of them.
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Kind of surprised my book has been out under this title since September and nobody has called me out on it.
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First ever
@ChickfilA
. Paging all of my American friends as I partake of the finest comestibles your good land has to offer (
@corycbrock
@amjones1989
@jbralston
@cam_clausing
@caorongjin
@g_parker_jr
@ryancollman
). Can confirm: it is actually very, very good.
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Is this the real life?
Is this theology?
Bavinck and Keller:
Calvinists on my Twitter feed.
Open your eyes,
Look up to these guys and read.
One's just a Dutchman,
One lives in N-Y-C...
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Herman Bavinck on pessimism:
It is a "disease" that generally develops not amongst the poor, but amongst those who have wealth but no ideals, and who grow tired of life. It is preceded by "superficial optimism".
"Pessimism is not a mood, rather it is grounded in philosophy".
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The peerless Prof. Donald Macleod (1940-2023).
It was a privilege beyond words to have been one of his students.
Professor Donald Macleod
24 November, 1940 - 21 May, 2023
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As the Elf on the Shelf season returns, let us not forget that last year,
@FredFredSanders
showed us a better way.
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Starting getting excited, people. New Bavinck is on its way.
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2/ signified. That’s consequential. Add in Christology in pneumatology’s place (and the use of an extra-biblical analogy as part of that), the impression that selfhood is centred on reproductive organs, a tone that doesn’t reckon with many women’s experiences of sexual violence,
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Heard someone ask a 3 year old cròileagan kid, “Can you say something in Gaelic?” yesterday. He smiled and said, “rudeigin” and all those with ears to hear were like 👇🏻
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6/ Christ & human sexuality. In my opinion, this excerpt tries to do something like that, but on theological method its first step is the wrong one, and it never recovers from that. To say that the negative reaction is just prudishness or the opposite is not helpful at all.
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If my friend
@CornelWest
becomes president, he will be the first US president who has read Bavinck: A Critical Biography.
Time to make some history, brother Cornel!
I am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself - fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education and living wages for
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And also, on Bavinck's 166th birthday,
@corycbrock
,
@GraySutanto
and I are very pleased to share the cover of our forthcoming translation (the first ever) of Bavinck's book Christianity and Science, coming out next August with
@crossway
.
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Teaching this today in my church’s catechism class. It’s hard to think of many statements that defy the default assumptions of current day Western anthropology more than ‘you are not your own’.
Happy Lord’s Day! On the first Sunday of the year, we ask: What is your only comfort in life and in death? All together now:
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Nathaniel Gray Sutanto and
@corycbrock
, Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction,
@LexhamPress
.
This will be outstanding.
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I suspect the same is true in the UK as well. Preachers, if people in a post-Christian non-churchgoing culture have come to your church, it’s safe to assume they would probably like to hear some substance. Don’t hold back!
Evangelicals under 40 are twice as likely as seniors to want more substance from the pulpit
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A few of us have been sitting on this
@TGC
news for a while, and now, excitingly, it's public:
I'm really looking forward to being part of the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, and to collaborating with (and learning from) the other fellows.
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Bavinck literature produced by scholars trained here at the
@SchoolofDiv
in recent years. We’ve been busy!
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7/ And saying we all need to become better readers? In general terms, of course, that’s true of all of us. I always hope to be a better reader tomorrow than I am today. But here, it’s a very unhelpful comment.
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1/ A provocative insight on preaching from Ed Clowney: preachers who don't know how to do redemptive-historical hermeneutics end up either preaching moralism or, if they want to avoid that, allegory. Protestant preachers today tend to imagine allegorical exegesis only as the kind
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3/ It's also something Saul/Paul himself goes on to do: in Acts 17, he quotes (and subverts) the pagan poets Epimenides' Cretica and Aratus' Phaenomena (which was an invocation to Zeus) when addressing the Areopagus.
"In him, we live, and move, and have our being..."
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2/ a god. The effect of this quote is to tell the zealous monotheist Saul that he is no wiser than the foolish young pagan. He is Pentheus. (In The Bacchae, Pentheus becomes power crazed, and ends up being destroyed by Dionysius.)
That is mind blowing.
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Exciting to see my English translation of J.H. Bavinck’s Personality and Worldview moving along towards publication with
@crossway
. Today’s progress:
@timkellernyc
’s foreword.
Tim and I both think this book is a game changer in the pro/anti-worldview conversation. It’s coming!
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As far as I'm aware,
@timkellernyc
's final published work was his foreword to Personality and Worldview, with his chapter on pastoral ministry in
@corycbrock
and
@GraySutanto
's T&T Clark Handbook of Neo-Calvinism being his first posthumous publication.
That's quite a thought.
Submitting this handbook’s manuscript next Monday. Its bittersweet to re-read
@timkellernyc
‘s wonderful chapter on Pastoral Ministry in this work today - it will perhaps be the first post-humous piece from him.
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.
@CTmagazine
on
@LeahBSassy
, now probably the world's most famous Bavinckian.
"While her account centers around gender conversations in the church, Boyd’s scholarship focuses on topics such as the Dutch Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck".
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On a flight and there’s a guy reading the T&T CLARK HANDBOOK OF NEO-CALVINISM
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Well this was fun: an interview with
@holland_tom
for my intro to theology class
@uoedivinity
@EdinburghUni
. Talking about his book Dominion, theology, Augustine, the theological nature of the Western mind, and even a bit of J.H. Bavinck...
Many thanks Tom!
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So I asked ChatGPT to write me a poem about ChatGPT taking over the world, and... well... don't read this if you are nervous about the robotic uprising.
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I wish I had filmed what would have been the greatest internet unboxing video of all time.
John Knox is finally free and I am here for it.
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"In dogmatics God loves us; in ethics, therefore, we love him."
- Herman Bavinck
Note to self when reading dogmatics, and reminder to self on the need not to neglect ethics.
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1/ A short 🧵 on Johanna Adriana Bavinck-Schippers (1868-1942):
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So the Russian for Herman Bavinck is Герман Бавинк. Volume 1 of the Reformed Dogmatics translated by Dmytro Bintsarovskyi. What's Russian for 'wow!'?
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1) 🧵Working on an article on Bavinck and the importance of the home. His ideas (in 1917) for 'social reformation' to strengthen society by strengthening the home included some interesting practical steps:
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5/ issues. Charity means he should have the chance to make his case & defend his work. But for now we can only read it as a stand-alone piece, and, unfortunately, it doesn’t work. I know my way around the early modern Reformed theologians who write about mystical union with
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Imagine you're the preacher though. You've just started your sermon, you look up at the congregation and you spot some tourists who have decided to attend your service.
Then you realise they are *Herman Bavinck* and *Geerhardus Vos*.
Herman Bavinck and Geerhardus Vos attended church together in Berlin on July 25, 1886. 😯
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My translation of J.H. Bavinck's Personality and Worldview, foreword by
@timkellernyc
, published by
@crossway
.
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Preaching a sermon *in person* to a congregation of people who will be physically present this afternoon, for the first time since March. I have missed this a lot.
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One of the great privileges of writing Bavinck's biography was the chance to tell the story of his daughter Hannie, and her husband & sons - active members of the anti-Nazi resistance in WW2. Uncovering and sharing their story was deeply humbling. They were remarkable people.
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Bavinck news: Cory Brock, Gray Sutanto & I have agreed to translate Bavinck's book Christian Scholarship (Christelijke wetenschap) with
@crossway
. We hope it'll be a useful companion volume to Christian Worldview, which we published with Crossway in 2019.
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When I was a PhD student my wife & I were in a restaurant & got chatting to the owner. "What do you both do?" he asked. My wife said "doctor" & he was impressed. "I'm doing a PhD." "On what?" "On a 19th century Dutch theologian." His reply: "Who is ever going to care about that?"
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What is the fifth point of Calvinism but the saints persevering?
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Scotland needs to pay attention here as we stare down the slippery slope: in Canada, people with disabilities or mental health struggles who die through assisted suicide (MAiD) are registered as having died of their disability/mental health, not as having died through euthanasia.
@Tefrin
We'd like to offer a small clarification to our previous response : In the case of a disability or mental health condition, deaths are coded to the underlying disability or mental health issue that MAID was granted for.
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Six Easter Sundays ago, our twins were baptised. All glory to God for the covenant of grace!
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New argument for baptism by sprinkling: the chance of shark attacks is reduced by about 100%.
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Herman Bavinck on how 16th century Reformed theology morphed into rationalism:
“The faith of the 16th century became the orthodoxy of the 17th. People no longer confessed their beliefs, but they only believed their confessions… this orthodoxy prepared the road for rationalism.”
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So… if Gray Sutanto,
@corycbrock
,
@jmarinusdejong
and I started a podcast, would you listen?
4 friends, 4 countries (🏴🇳🇱🇮🇩🇺🇸), lots to discuss, and a lot of grace in common.
Coming soon.
#graceincommon
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Reading this and it is *superb*. An exemplary demonstration of how to write theology with precision and clarity.
@corycbrock
and Gray were my first two PhD students, and have gone on to become two of my closest friends. So thankful for them and their work.
#CrayBrotanto
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As the spouse of a medical doctor, it’s sad to see the kind of one-sided pressure now being put on medics in Scotland to get in line on euthanasia. This pamphlet says zero about how euthanasia is going in Canada, Belgium or the Netherlands. It is propaganda.
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Be like
@LeahBSassy
, all y'all.
Professor: your final paper can be on a topic of your choosing, do you have any idea of what-
Me:
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"The more deeply we live, the more we feel in sympathy with Augustine, and the less with Pelagius."
- Herman Bavinck
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By
@timkellernyc
on our translation of Bavinck’s Christian Worldview (co-translated with Cory Brock & Gray Sutanto
@crossway
). It’s one of Bavinck’s most important works - glad to see others benefiting from it.
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Learned today that if you have an iPhone in church when the Old Testament reading mentions Assyria, Siri will interrupt the service (in an Irish accent?) with, “I didn’t quite catch that, could you please say it again?”
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This comparison of Game of Thrones & Gladiator - where our moral imaginations are drawn to side with & against the Romans… “we show ourselves the heirs not of the Caesars but of the early church.”👌🏼
@holland_tom
doing
@holland_tom
things.
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Summer holiday reading. My
@JRRTolkien
devotee 11 year old could no longer handle the fact I hadn’t actually read LoTR yet (I know, I’m sorry
@timkellernyc
) and has made it compulsory.
Turns out it’s actually very good.
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