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.