Bibliographic information:
Scottish Journal of Theology 73 (2020): 112-125
Description:
Description
This essay examines Herman Bavinck’s Stone Lectures (1908), published as Philosophy of Revelation, for indications of a noteworthy conception of the relation between ontology and revelation. One discovers in the lectures that in responding constructively to various challenges to the Christian faith, Bavinck pushes in a direction documented in recent studies of his work: toward doctrinal organicism. What emerges in terms of ontology and revelation is Bavinck’s belief that Christianity is distinguished primarily by confession of a real divine relational initiative, understood in terms of the incarnation, which serves as the ontological precondition of divine revelation and thus as vindication of creaturely naming of God.
Publisher:
Cambridge Univ Press (website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/scottish-journal-of-theology/article/ontology-and-revelation-in-bavincks-stone-lectures/5768BBF66D4ED29E43675761156F6088)