The J. H. Bavinck Reader
Crucial themes and issues explored by a premier missiologist

Johan Herman Bavinck (1895-1964) was a prominent twentieth-century Dutch Calvinist missiologist who wrestled with the tension between religious absolutism and relativism, as many Christians do in today's pluralistic context.

The J. H. Bavinck Reader gathers together a choice selection of Bavinck's significant writings that are essential for understanding his theology of missions, his approach to world religions, and his religious psychology. His treatment of religious consciousness and Christian faith expands on the brief treatment of it in his own work The Church Between Temple and Mosque. The concluding chapters show how Bavinck's theoretical reflection on religious consciousness was rooted in his close observation during his years as a missionary in Indonesia.

Offering a constructive way forward, Bavinck affirms both the particularity of salvation in Christ and the universality of the Christian hope. A substantial introduction enhances the book with the most thorough biographical sketch of Bavinck available.
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The J. H. Bavinck Reader
Crucial themes and issues explored by a premier missiologist

Johan Herman Bavinck (1895-1964) was a prominent twentieth-century Dutch Calvinist missiologist who wrestled with the tension between religious absolutism and relativism, as many Christians do in today's pluralistic context.

The J. H. Bavinck Reader gathers together a choice selection of Bavinck's significant writings that are essential for understanding his theology of missions, his approach to world religions, and his religious psychology. His treatment of religious consciousness and Christian faith expands on the brief treatment of it in his own work The Church Between Temple and Mosque. The concluding chapters show how Bavinck's theoretical reflection on religious consciousness was rooted in his close observation during his years as a missionary in Indonesia.

Offering a constructive way forward, Bavinck affirms both the particularity of salvation in Christ and the universality of the Christian hope. A substantial introduction enhances the book with the most thorough biographical sketch of Bavinck available.
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Crucial themes and issues explored by a premier missiologist

Johan Herman Bavinck (1895-1964) was a prominent twentieth-century Dutch Calvinist missiologist who wrestled with the tension between religious absolutism and relativism, as many Christians do in today's pluralistic context.

The J. H. Bavinck Reader gathers together a choice selection of Bavinck's significant writings that are essential for understanding his theology of missions, his approach to world religions, and his religious psychology. His treatment of religious consciousness and Christian faith expands on the brief treatment of it in his own work The Church Between Temple and Mosque. The concluding chapters show how Bavinck's theoretical reflection on religious consciousness was rooted in his close observation during his years as a missionary in Indonesia.

Offering a constructive way forward, Bavinck affirms both the particularity of salvation in Christ and the universality of the Christian hope. A substantial introduction enhances the book with the most thorough biographical sketch of Bavinck available.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780802865922
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date: 06/03/2013
Pages: 429
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Professor of systematic theology at Calvin TheologicalSeminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan.


James D. Bratt is professor of history at Calvin College andcoeditor of Perspectives: A Journal of ReformedThought. His other books include DutchCalvinism in Modern America and AntirevivalisminAntebellum America.


Paul J. Visser is pastor of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and chairman of the Foundation for the Promoting of Reformed Missiology and Ecumenics.

Table of Contents

Editors' Preface vii

Acknowledgments xii

Introduction: The Life and Thought of Johan Herman Bavinck (1895-1964), by Paul J. Visser 1

I God's Revelation to the Nations

1 General Revelation and the Non-Christian Religions 95

2 Proclaiming Christ to the Nations 110

II Religious Consciousness and Christian Faith

3 Defining Religious Consciousness: The Five Magnetic Points 145

4 Debating Religious Consciousness: Natural Religion? 199

5 Religious Consciousness in History 233

6 Religious Consciousness and Christian Faith 277

III Christ and Asian Mysticism

7 God and the World 303

8 Microcosm and Macrocosm 330

9 The World-Order 350

10 The Mysterious Drama of Human Life 375

11 The Way of Deliverance 388

Proper Name Index 412

Subject Index 414

Scripture Index 416

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