Theology as the science of God : : Herman Bavinck's wetenschappelijke theology for the modern world / / Ximian Xu.

• Superior document: Forschungen zur reformierten Theologie ; Volume 14
• VerfasserIn: Xu, Ximian,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Forschungen zur reformierten Theologie ; Volume 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (273 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Exploring the New Perspective on Bavinck -- 1.1 The Conventional Reading of Bavinck's Theology -- 1.2 The New Organic Reading of Bavinck's Theology -- 1.2.1 Initial Explorations -- 1.2.2 Brian Mattson's Preliminary Elaboration -- 1.2.3 The New Reading of Organic Motif -- 1.3 A Promise of the New Reading -- 1.3.1 The Emergence of the Eglintonian School -- 1.3.2 Scientific Theology as a Promise -- 1.3.2.1 The Heritage of Christian Theology -- 1.3.2.2 A Hermeneutical Meta-Paradigm and Its Threefold Promise -- 2. Against the Stream: Bavinck's Refusal of the Unscientific Portrayals of Scientific Theology in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Religiewetenschap in the Nineteenth-Century Dutch Academy -- 2.2.1 The Nineteenth-Century Dutch Religious Science -- 2.2.2 Cornelis Petrus Tiele on Religious Science -- 2.2.3 Summary -- 2.3 Theological Modernism -- 2.3.1 The Groninger School -- 2.3.2 The Leiden School -- 2.3.3 The Ethical School -- 2.3.4 Malcontents -- 2.4 Concluding Remark: On Defending the Authentic Scientificity of Theology against the Stream -- 3. Herman Bavinck on Theology as the Science of God -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Bavinck's General Definition of Science -- 3.2.1 Twofold Wetenschap -- 3.2.2 The Notion of Science -- 3.3 Bavinck's Definitions of Dogma, Dogmatics and Theology -- 3.4 Bavinck's Project of Theology as the Science of God -- 3.4.1 Bavinck's Engagement with Julius Kaftan -- 3.4.2 Bavinck's Definition of Scientific Theology -- 3.4.2.1 God as the Real Object -- 3.4.2.2 Assumptions in Faith -- 3.4.2.3 Divine Object-Defining -- 3.4.3 The Task of the Science of God -- 3.4.3.1 The Organic System of the Knowledge of God -- 3.4.3.2 Serving the Church -- 3.4.3.3 Directing God's People to Worship God.

3.4.3.4 Summary -- 3.5 Bavinck's Scientific Theology in relation to Neo-Calvinism More Broadly -- 3.5.1 Geerhardus Vos -- 3.5.2 Abraham Kuyper -- 3.6 Concluding Remarks -- 4. The Grammar of Scientific Theology (I) -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Positive Revelationalism -- 4.2.1 The Experience of Revelation -- 4.2.2 Positive but not Positivistic: Tackling the Anticipatory Critique of Revelatory Positivism -- 4.2.3 Summary -- 4.3 Theological Organicism -- 4.3.1 Unity-in-Diversity and Diversity-in-Unity -- 4.3.2 The Common Idea in Theological Organism -- 4.3.3 The Growth of Scientific Theology unto the Telos -- 4.3.4 Summary -- 4.4 Organically Critical Realism -- 4.4.1 Organically Critical Realism: The Organic Correspondence between Subjective and Objective Revelation -- 4.4.2 Organically Critical Realism: The Dispensation of the Holy Spirit -- 4.4.3 Summary -- 4.5 Concluding Remarks on the First Three Rationales -- 5. The Grammar of Scientific Theology (II) -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Dialectical Catholicity -- 5.2.1 Standing in the Tradition -- 5.2.2 Moving Outwards -- 5.2.3 Summary -- 5.3 Doxological Teleology -- 5.3.1 Knowing God in Praising -- 5.3.2 Theocentricism and Relationality -- 5.3.3 Summary -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6. 'The Unassumed Is the Unhealed': Bavinck's Christological Approach to the Relationship between Theology and the Other Sciences -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The University or the Seminary: The Kuyper-Lindeboom Debates -- 6.2.1 Sphere Sovereignty: Modern or Orthodox? -- 6.2.2 Theological Encyclopaedia: Religious Science? -- 6.2.3 Summary -- 6.3 Bavinck's Middle Way -- 6.3.1 Sphere Sovereignty -- 6.3.2 Theological Encyclopaedia -- 6.3.3 Summary -- 6.4 Bavinck on Theology as the Regina Scientiarum -- 6.4.1 The Logos-Christological Account -- 6.4.2 The Eschatological Account -- 6.4.3 Summary -- 6.5 Conclusion.

7. A Bavinckian Approach to Scientific Theology in the University of the Twenty-First Century -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Queen Being Dethroned: A Historical Survey of Theology in the University -- 7.2.1 The Honoured Queen -- 7.2.2 The Enlightened Humans, the Humiliated Queen -- 7.2.3 The Stubborn Queen -- 7.3 A Bavinckian Account of a Contemporary University Theologian -- 7.3.1 To Be Humble yet Courageous -- 7.3.1.1 The Humble yet Courageous Theologian: God-vision -- 7.3.1.2 The Humble yet Courageous Theologian: Interdisciplinary Interaction -- 7.3.1.3 The Humble yet Courageous Theologian: Scholarly Appropriation -- 7.3.2 The Ontological Priority of Human Agent -- 7.3.2.1 The Human Agent qua Theologian -- 7.3.2.2 The Human Agent qua University Academic -- 7.3.3 Theological Ethics as an Interdisciplinary Point of Contact -- 7.3.3.1 Theological Ethics in Bavinck's System -- 7.3.3.2 Theological Ethics as Operative in the University -- 7.4 Concluding Appraisal -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Sources by Herman Bavinck -- Sources by Abraham Kuyper -- Secondary Sources -- Sources on Herman Bavinck -- Sources on Abraham Kuyper -- Sources on Dutch Theology -- Sources on the University and Theology -- Other Sources -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Body.