N. Gray Sutanto
@GraySutanto
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My new book, God and Humanity, is up for pre-order. Its the first book to apply Bavinck to current anthropological issues with a constructive argument. Thanks to
@GvandenBrink1
@georgeharinck
, M Allen, Dan Treier,
@TylerDMcNabb
and J Leidenhag for the endorsements! Link below
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My last phone call with Tim was on a late Sunday night. A rare occasion, to be sure, so I thought it may be urgent. I was amazed that he was calling about how to communicate a theological point to a 12 year old. He always wanted to talk about Jesus well. An evangelist.
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One of the best preventative acts against ‘deconstruction’ is to live in another culture and attend churches there to realize that the ‘problematic’ church culture you grew up with is merely local, limited, not synonymous with Christianity itself.
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First draft of a forthcoming textbook/introduction to a Reformed theological anthropology is done
@LexhamPress
- sitting at about 105,000 words. Now to sit on it and edit slowly for the next 6 months!
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Bavinck warned against German nationalism and racism - and thought that the best defense against these vices is Christianity.
My article for
@CTmagazine
- link below 👇
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I’m grateful for this, and for the collegiality I have found at
@RTSWashington
and the broader
@ReformTheoSem
community. My colleagues are a constant source of encouragement and inspiration for me - and I look forward to continuing on the work with them!
NEWS: RTS is pleased to announce the promotion of Dr.
@GraySutanto
from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Systematic Theology.
Dr. Sutanto joined
@RTS
Washington in 2020 and has directed the Initiative on Neo-Calvinist Scholarship since 2023.
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When we planted a church in Jakarta, confessionalism was seen not as authoritarian but remarkably progressive because it delimits pastoral authority - no longer would the pastor (often treated like the sage-partriarch in Asian contexts) define orthodoxy, but traditioned exegesis.
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Our home church in Jakarta (a church plant we started back in 2015) has grown so much since we left. We are happily confessional, recite the Westminster Standards every week, and focus on expository sermons. Pray for me as I preach again here for the next two weeks.
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Why is religion less popular among Millennials? ‘In short, because it is not compatible with individualism - and individualism is Millenials’ core value above all else’
Generations
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What a joy to hold a physical copy of our Handbook of Neo-Calvinism in my own hands!
@tandtclark
@BloomsburyAcad
@corycbrock
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The
@tandtclark
handbook of Neo-Calvinism (co-edited with
@corycbrock
) releases in hardback a month from today! In anticipation, I’ll be posting on this thread brief glimpses of each chapter.
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Contract signed: writing on Sin for the NSD series
@ZonderAcademic
(ed. by Allen and
@scottrswain
) - an organic follow-up to some forthcoming books: God and Humanity - Bavinck and Theological Anthropology (
@tandtclark
), and the
@LexhamPress
We Believe volume on anthropology.
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Happy to sign this today to produce the Essential Herman Bavinck (reader and commentary) with
@BakerAcademic
, to match their Essential Barth Reader (
@_kljohnson
), and to work with
@gayledoornbos
on this.
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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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‘Indonesia is the largest Muslim nation in the world’ - 🧵 1. yes, but keep in mind that 10% of the Indonesian population is Christian. That’s nearly 29 million Christians - there are more Christians in Indonesia than the entire population of Australia (26 million).
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Theology is not in need of a specific philosophy. It is not per se hostile to any philosophical system and does not, a priori... give priority to the philosophy of Plato or of Kant... But it brings along its own criteria, and takes over what it deems true and useful - Bavinck
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My second monograph comes out next week!
@tandtclark
@BloomsburyAcad
My new book, God and Humanity, is up for pre-order. Its the first book to apply Bavinck to current anthropological issues with a constructive argument. Thanks to
@GvandenBrink1
@georgeharinck
, M Allen, Dan Treier,
@TylerDMcNabb
and J Leidenhag for the endorsements! Link below
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��68% of dechurched evangelicals said their parents played a role in that decision’ - how?:
1. Their emphasis on culture war lost me over time 2. lack of love, joy, generosity. 3. Their inability to listen 4. Inability to engage other views 5. Racial attitudes. Pages 9-10
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Pleased to sign this contract with
@CambridgeUP
- I'm writing in the Cambridge Elements of Christian Doctrine on the 'Sense of the Divine', which affords me an opportunity to revisit the material on Bavinck and Plantinga and to provide a concise (20k word) argument.
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So much of Reformed theology consists in footnotes to Augustine.
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A pitfall of Western renderings of ‘indigenous’ or ‘post-colonial’ theologies is the subtle assumption that if we just read the indigenous cultures/theologies well enough we would find that they echo the same Western (progressive) perspective there instead of the reality 1/2
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My essay on Bavinck and the beatific vision is now published in the latest IJST issue.
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ICYMI: Muller’s PRRD newly available again, at
@wtsbooks
for 50% off. Indispensable, and if you haven’t read them, do so as soon as you can:
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They’re here! And they’re beautiful.
@crossway
@DrJamesEglinton
@corycbrock
first English translation of Herman Bavinck’s Christianity and Science.
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Don’t confuse courage and clarity with speaking loudly on social media.
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Depends on what you’re reading. Stephen King, Malcolm Gladwell? Sure. But Francis Turretin or Immanuel Kant? Surely not. 15 carefully read pages for those is a good day.
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A Christian worldview =\= a worldview shaped only by the Bible.
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We should all pick up Bavinck’s Christian Worldview [again] this week.
@gavinortlund
None. No work of fiction should ever change our worldview. As a Christian, my worldview is shaped by Scripture alone.
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‘Well, what kind of a neo-Calvinist are you? Bavinckian…. Or Dooyeweerdian?’
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.. and this is why churches need to go deeper, and pastors need to get trained in good seminaries. We are selling our congregation short when we water down teaching for the sake of ‘relevance’ and ‘practicality’ - reasoned doctrine persuades and strengthens.
Islam is picking off guys raised in evangelical churches. It’s really easy for them because guys can’t explain biblical authorship, the divinity of Christ, how the canon was formed, the Trinity, etc. Muslims challenged Martin on these issues. It unraveled him. Now he’s Muslim.
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Kuyper’s ‘every square inch’ quote does not lead to or imply theonomy. Folks who’ve used that quote to vindicate theonomy (or any sort of immanent ‘one-kingdomism’) have not read Kuyper or wrestled with sphere sovereignty very well.
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Back in Jakarta after two and a half years - we’re having fun with Kira’s grandmother
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Revisiting this gem for Bavinck class tonight. Perhaps the single most important one-off essay from him that encapsulates neo-Calvinism.
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Another great week with the Keller Center fellows in Manhattan. I’m once again a little bit ill from the travels - but it was all worth it.
@DrJamesEglinton
@michaeljkruger
@melissabkruger
@RebeccMcLaugh
@DrSamChan
@XianMind
@glenscrivener
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Just sent in my endorsement for John Bolt’s
@calvinseminary
edited Reformed social ethics from bavinck
@BakerAcademic
- a very useful compendium of ‘what did Bavinck think about moral issue x’ from church-state, the unborn, social relations, education, etc. pre- order 👇
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Godly parents... need not doubt the election and salvation of their children whom God takes from this life in their infancy, even though in their case the spiritual life could not yet manifest itself in acts of faith and repentance. Bavinck, RD 4, 124.
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In principle, I like Plato, but to say that using Plato is a pre-requisite to Christian orthodoxy is to limit the efficacy of general revelation and to cut off the global church, making it dependent on one local philosophy, one particular reception of general rev. 1/2
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Your annual reminder that this is Bavinck’s most mature and perhaps most significant (and definitely most difficult) text. We will be going through it for the next three weeks in our Bavinck class
@RTSWashington
@ReformTheoSem
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Well, its a very good week. A very ‘orthodox yet modern’ (1911) cover for our
@tandtclark
handbook to neo-Calvinism is out.
@corycbrock
and I have been laboring on this for a while now - look for some very exciting contributions here, hopefully by mid-late 2024!
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My first article on
@CTmagazine
features a preview of one of the arguments in my forthcoming book on Bavinck and anthropology with
@tandtclark
@BloomsburyAcad
:
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So pleased to receive this exterior proof of our
@tandtclark
handbook of neo-Calvinism
@BloomsburyAcad
-
@corycbrock
-
(Paperback available 14-18 months after hardback)
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Pleased to receive this nice hardback of the new edition of Bavinck’s mature anthropological statements: Biblical and Religious Psychology. Nice work,
@g_parker_jr
, and John Bolt’s introduction was well done as well!
@calvinseminary
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So glad to receive this from
@LexhamPress
- the volume is beautiful! I’m submitting my own manuscript to the editors by the end of the year.
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Im flying into Jackson tonight to deliver the Hughes lectures tomorrow. The lectures will be answering the question: ‘what are Bavinck’s contributions to theological anthropology?’ With some dialoguing with affect theory and a theological account of ‘race’
NEWS: Dr.
@GraySutanto
will deliver the 2024 Hughes Lectures at
@RTSJackson
.
Dr. Sutanto, assistant professor at
@RTSWashington
, will give a series entitled, “God and Humanity: Herman Bavinck and Theological Anthropology."
Read more:
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Fresh off the printer - author copies are in
@LexhamPress
@corycbrock
- if you pre-ordered, you should receive your copy very soon.
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A highlight is finally getting my own copy of this labor of love.
@LexhamPress
- here’s the acknowledgments section:
@DrJamesEglinton
@corycbrock
@dblairsmith
@georgeharinck
@scott_redd
@vossian
@tommykeene
@jesse_i_myers
#neocalvinism
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Good news: due to popular demand, our
@RTSWashington
Theological Dutch 1 and 2 class (taught by Mike Douma), will be open to the whole of the RTS
@ReformTheoSem
system, as a sync zoom class for the academic year of 2024-5.
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Grateful to receive this Bavinck medallion from John Bolt
@calvinseminary
@DrJamesEglinton
- a wonderful surprise!
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One of the most formative advice I got early in my PhD years was to stop blogging. Instead, channel every itch to write into working on a journal article or that next book, and have 3-5 trusted peers who read and re-check your work.
3/ got a bunch of very basic things very wrong” kind of way. I’ve seen people tweet about it as an “article”. But here’s the thing: it isn’t an article, at least not in the scholarly sense. A published article goes through a peer-review process where other scholars fact check
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Happy release day to the
@tandtclark
Handbook of Neo-Calvinism! A panoramic overview of the roots, trajectories, and legacy of the tradition. Thank you all who contributed to it and I hope it will be useful to many.
@BloomsburyAcad
Photo credit:
@jmarinusdejong
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I wish I had these translations years ago. If CW is a macro-level exploration of the first principles behind existence, knowing, and morality, C&S zooms in, comes alongside the practitioner, and shows how Christianity leavens the major fields of the higher learning.
@crossway
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Ephesians 2:13-15
… in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace…that he might create in himself one new man…so making peace
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Kline is right. And Bavinck and Kuyper would agree with him on this.
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My essay sketching the cultural mandate and its relation to the jmage of God is now out in the newest issue of
@Themelios_TGC
@TGC
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Glad to see this is now up! My volume is on humanity as created and fallen.
Launching soon: The We Believe Series.
"Integrating biblical and systematic theology with a missional and pastoral passion, this series promises not only to inform but to transform readers through the riches of God’s word."
Learn more:
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This morning
@whitness7
argued that in an age of dechurching, polarization and the election year, its time for us to turn back to the essentials of Christianity…by turning to an expository series in 1 John - then went on to expound a Chalcedonian Christology. Excellent stuff.
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All the misery of the Presbyterian Churches is owing to their striving to consider the Reformation as completed, and to allow no further development of what has been begun by the labor of the Reformers…Calvinism wishes no cessation of progress and promotes multiformity - Bavinck
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Its a joy to welcome
@DrChrisWatkin
here at
@RTSWashington
- and to make sure he gets a copy of this newest one
@LexhamPress
@ZonderAcademic
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Went through this text yet again in tonight’s Bavinck class
@ReformTheoSem
- just an incredible text that remains vivid and sharp every time I revisit it.
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The argument for God’s existence as morality’s ontological (and thus objective) ground is still one of the most persuasive, in my view.
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- which is often something far more different, category-eluding, and, from a progressive perspective, far less ‘open’ or ‘tolerant’. Commitment to diversity is more complicated when we actually anticipate real, challenging, differences. 2/2
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Manuscript submitted to
@tandtclark
- 40 chapters (plus an editorial introduction and an annotated bibliography from
@bintsarovskyi
), close to 4 years of work. Typesettings/proofs are next. Thanks to all our contributors.
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Happening now;
@DrJamesEglinton
here at
@RTSWashington
for the book launch of Johan Bavinck’s Personality and Worldvids
@crossway
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It was a joy to witness our daughter’s baptism today - Kiandara Sutanto. Thanks as well to the
@RTSWashington
crew for coming by!
@tommykeene
@scott_redd
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Came back to my
@RTSWashington
office after a week in NYC and saw that my wife installed these two framed photos in here….
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So glad to have
@scottrswain
on campus this week
@RTSWashington
to teach Ecclesiology and Sacraments.
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Just had to walk past the old stomping grounds today - will be back tomorrow to lead a post-graduate seminar
@uoedivinity
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One of the most important lessons I wished I learned earlier is that scholarship is a community and a cultural endeavor. There is a conversation taking place, and our work consists in contributing to that conversation, hoping perhaps to advance it just a tad. 1
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Happy to report that our translation of Bavinck’s Christianity and Science (Christelijke wetenschap)
@crossway
has a projected publication date! August 2023.
@DrJamesEglinton
@corycbrock
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Forthcoming for
@Themelios_TGC
- which is also a preview of a snippet of my We Believe book on anthropology for
@LexhamPress
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A wonderfully balanced and useful (and perhaps under-appreciated?) text on the image of God.
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Scholarship and activism both have their place, but when scholarship is reduced to activism it loses its value and distinct character.
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Intra-Reformed debates get really tiring guys - we agree on 99.8% of stuff most of the time.
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It was great to hear
@LigonDuncan
preach at New City Church today - he anticipated objections, exposited the text, and delivered to the heart. Exemplary!
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Its a dark week.
Professor Donald Macleod
24 November, 1940 - 21 May, 2023
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God and Humanity: Bavinck and Theological Anthropology MS is sent for production w/
@BloomsburyAcad
@tandtclark
's Explorations in Reformed Theology series. Working with editors Paul Nimmo and Paul Dafydd Jones was a privilege. I learned much. I've been writing this since 2017.
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The launch for the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics is today. Im thrilled to be part of the initial group of fellows for the next three years and can’t wait to learn from this stellar team - you can also sign on to three newly available cohorts now.
We are pleased to announce the launch of a major new TGC initiative:
The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics.
Learn more:
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Am I doing this twitter thing right? Grace in Common Season 2 will be out very soon...
@DrJamesEglinton
@corycbrock
@jmarinusdejong
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'The church fathers knew what they were doing.' Bavinck, RD, 1. 608.
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‘Studying Bavinck’s works encourages us… to develop a kind of principled pliability that can engage any idea with charity without sacrificing conviction’
ICYMI: How to read Bavinck
@TGC
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If you had a positive experience in your own cultural context’s expression of the Christian faith, living in another culture also reminds us not to identify our home culture with Christianity itself, preventing us from cultural idolatry.
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He's right. One can't understand Keller without neo-Calvinism (Bavinck/Kuyper), and its an odd to like Keller and not appreciate neo-Calvinism.
.
@DrJamesEglinton
explaining to a Dutch audience (who tend to love Keller) how much
@timkellernyc
was shaped by Dutch Neo-Calvinism (which the Dutch tend to love less).
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I had a wonderful time presenting on the Bavincks, Plantinga, and Martin Heidegger for an affective model of the sense of divinity
@uoedivinity
today, and loved walking in to this again.
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First ever baseball match at the Yankees stadium. Do I understand the game? Hardly still but
@michaeljkruger
tried his best explaining it to me.
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First draft of my next book on Bavinck and theological anthropology is done (
@tandtclark
). Will be tinkering with it for the next few months as a few friends read and give feedback. Next up:
@LexhamPress
‘We Believe’ textbook series, the volume on humanity.
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To be discussed tonight in Bavinck class
@RTSWashington
- this seminal 1894 text on Common Grace. Next to Catholicity of Christianity and the Church, a wonderful one-stop shop on this doctrine.
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I’ve dropped the ball on endorsement requests as of late but when I started reading
@PastorPerks
‘s forthcoming work on nature and grace I was hooked. See it here:
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The revival of neo-Calvinism continues! Thanks to
@wtspress
for this new edition of a JH Bavinck classic, with a new introduction from
@DrDanStrange
A rich and under-appreciated work - go pick it up now.
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Proofs for God and Humanity: Bavinck and Theological Anthropology are in today from
@tandtclark
@BloomsburyAcad
- I have a lot of people to thank for the fruition of this project; here are the acknowledgments and TOC
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