In this episode, James, Gray, and Marinus continue their series reading and discussing Herman Bavinck's Philosophy of Revelation. This week, they discuss the fifth chapter on “Revelation and History.”

Read along with us as we walk through the chapters of this significant work.

Works mentioned:

Herman Bavinck, Philosophy of Revelation: A New Annotated Edition Adapted and Expanded from the 1908 Stone Lectures: Presented at Princeton Theological Seminary, A new annotated edition, ed. Cory Brock and Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, with Princeton Theological Seminary (Hendrickson Publishers, 2018).⁠https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Revelation-Annotated-Herman-Bavinck/dp/1683071360⁠

Cameron Clausing, Theology and History in the Methodology of Herman Bavinck: Revelation, Confession, and Christian Consciousness, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology Series (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Carlos M. N. Eire, They Flew: A History of the Impossible (Yale University Press, 2025).

The Rest is History Podcast: https://therestishistory.supportingcast.fm/

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In this episode, James, Gray, and Marinus continue their series reading and discussing Herman Bavinck's Philosophy of Revelation. This week, they discuss the fourth chapter on “Revelation and Nature.”

Read along with us as we walk through the chapters of this significant work.

Works mentioned:

Herman Bavinck, Philosophy of Revelation: A New Annotated Edition Adapted and Expanded from the 1908 Stone Lectures: Presented at Princeton Theological Seminary, A new annotated edition, ed. Cory Brock and Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, with Princeton Theological Seminary (Hendrickson Publishers, 2018).⁠https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Revelation-Annotated-Herman-Bavinck/dp/1683071360⁠

J. H. Bavinck, Personality and Worldview, ed. James Perman Eglinton, with Timothy Keller (Crossway, 2023).

Herman Bavinck, Christianity and Science, trans. Nathaniel Gray Sutanto et al. (Crossway, 2023).

 Marinus de Jong, “The Heart of the Academy: Herman Bavinck in Debate with Modernity on the Academy, Theology, and the Church,” in Church and Academy, ed. Gordon Graham, The Kuyper Center Review, volume 5 (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015).

Christopher Watkin, Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture (Zondervan Academic, 2022).

“Divine Providence’s Wetenschappelijke Benefits: Retrieving a Bavinckian Model,” Divine Providence and Action, edited by Oliver Crisp and Fred Sanders (Zondervan, 2019), 96-114.

Ximian Xu, Theology as the Science of God: Herman Bavinck’s Wetenschappelijke Theology for the Modern World, 1st ed. (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022).

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In this special episode, we share another conversation the team had this past May in São Paulo, Brazil at the conference titled "A Public Gospel: Evangelicals, Neo-Calvinists, and Society" held at Mackenzie University. We sat down with Gayle Doornbos, Associate Professor of Theology at Dordt University, to discuss a theology of suffering.

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In this episode, we share a conversation the team had this past May in São Paulo, Brazil at the conference titled "A Public Gospel: Evangelicals, Neo-Calvinists, and Society" held at Mackenzie University. They discuss the growing interest in neo-Calvinism in Brazil.

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In this episode, James, Gray, and Cory continue their series reading and discussing Herman Bavinck's Philosophy of Revelation. This week, they discuss the third chapter on “Revelation and Philosphy." 

Read along with us as we walk through the chapters of this significant work.

Works mentioned:

Herman Bavinck, Philosophy of Revelation: A New Annotated Edition Adapted and Expanded from the 1908 Stone Lectures: Presented at Princeton Theological Seminary, A new annotated edition, ed. Cory Brock and Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, with Princeton Theological Seminary (Hendrickson Publishers, 2018).⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Revelation-Annotated-Herman-Bavinck/dp/1683071360⁠⁠

Cory C. Brock, Orthodox yet Modern: Herman Bavinck’s Use of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology (Lexham Press, 2020).

Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck’s Theological Epistemology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).

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In this episode, James, Gray, Cory, and Marinus continue their series reading and discussing Herman Bavinck's Philosophy of Revelation. This week, they discuss the second chapter on “Revelation and Philosphy." 

Read along with us as we walk through the chapters of this significant work.

Works mentioned:

Herman Bavinck, Philosophy of Revelation: A New Annotated Edition Adapted and Expanded from the 1908 Stone Lectures: Presented at Princeton Theological Seminary, A new annotated edition, ed. Cory Brock and Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, with Princeton Theological Seminary (Hendrickson Publishers, 2018).⁠https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Revelation-Annotated-Herman-Bavinck/dp/1683071360⁠

J. H. Bavinck, Personality and Worldview, ed. James Perman Eglinton, with Timothy Keller (Crossway, 2023).

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In this episode, James, Cory, and Marinus continue their series reading and discussing Herman Bavinck's Philosophy of Revelation. This week, they discuss the first chapter on “The Idea of a Philosophy of Revelation. 

Read along with us as we walk through the chapters of this significant work.

Works mentioned:

Herman Bavinck, Philosophy of Revelation: A New Annotated Edition Adapted and Expanded from the 1908 Stone Lectures: Presented at Princeton Theological Seminary, A new annotated edition, ed. Cory Brock and Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, with Princeton Theological Seminary (Hendrickson Publishers, 2018).⁠https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Revelation-Annotated-Herman-Bavinck/dp/1683071360⁠

J. H. Bavinck, Personality and Worldview, ed. James Perman Eglinton, with Timothy Keller (Crossway, 2023).

Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, First US edition (Basic Books, 2019).

Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality, Vol. I, (London Allen & Unwin, 1918)

Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West: Pespectives of World Hisotyr, Vol. II, (London Allen & Unwin, 1922)

Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007).

Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Crossway, 2020).

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In this episode, James and Cory introduce a new series where they will be reading and discussing Herman Bavinck's Philosophy of Revelation. They discuss the significance of this work within the context of Neo-Calvinism and cultural apologetics. The conversation explores the intellectual landscape of Bavinck's time, including his engagement with Nietzsche, and offers insights into how readers can approach Bavinck's complex lectures.

Read along with us as we walk through the chapters of this significant work.

Works mentioned:

Herman Bavinck, Philosophy of Revelation: A New Annotated Edition Adapted and Expanded from the 1908 Stone Lectures: Presented at Princeton Theological Seminary, A new annotated edition, ed. Cory Brock and Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, with Princeton Theological Seminary (Hendrickson Publishers, 2018).https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Revelation-Annotated-Herman-Bavinck/dp/1683071360

James D. Bratt, “The Context of Herman Bavinck’s Stone Lectures: Culture and Politics in 1908,” The Bavinck Review 1 (2010): 4–24.

https://bavinckinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Article-1-Bratt.pdf

George Harinck, “Why Was Bavinck in Need of a Philosophy of Revelation?,” in The Kuyper Center Review, ed. Gordon Graham, vol. 2, The Kuyper Center Review (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010).

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Philosophy of Revelation

02:38 The Importance of Bavinck's Work

05:35 Context of the Stone Lectures

08:34 Challenges of Reading Bavinck's Stone Lectures

11:47 Bavinck's Engagement with Culture

14:37 Cultural Apologetics in Bavinck's Philosophy of Revelation

17:36 The Personal Narrative Behind the Lectures

20:32 Cultural Apologetics

30:36 Why a Philosophy of Revelation?

44:30 Historical Intellectual Background

53:48 Reading Tips

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In this episode, Cory and Gray finish their series reviewing Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism. This week, they discuss Lecture 6 on Calvinism and the Future.

Sources mentioned in this episode:

Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism: Six Lectures Delivered at Princeton University [in 1898] (Grand Rapids, MI: W. B. Eerdmans, 2002).

N. Gray Sutanto, A Sense of the Divine: An Affective Model of General Revelation from the Reformed Tradition, 1st ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2025), https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/religion/theology/sense-divine-affective-model-general-revelation-reformed-tradition

Brad S. Gregory, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012).

Nathanial Gray Sutano and Cory C. Brock, eds., T&T Clark Handbook of Neo-Calvinism, T&t Clark Handbooks (London ; New York: T&T Clark, 2024).

Cory C. Brock, A Student’s Guide to Scripture, Series eds. John Perritt and Linda Oliver, (Fearn: Christian Focus, 2025). https://www.christianfocus.com/en-gb/product/9781527112834/track-a-students-guide-to-scripture-paperback

Exploring Neo-Calvinism: Foundations for Cultural Apologetics

6-SESSION WEEKLY ONLINE COHORT

MONDAYS, MAY 26 - JUNE 30, 2025

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/cohort/neo-calvinist-theology-for-apologetics-august-2025/

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s7e11 Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism - Lecture 5, Calvinism and Art 

In this episode, Marinus, Gray, and James continue a series reviewing Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism. This week, they discuss Lecture 5 on Calvinism and Art.

Sources mentioned in this episode:

Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism: Six Lectures Delivered at Princeton University [in 1898] (Grand Rapids, MI: W. B. Eerdmans, 2002).

Gavin Ortlund, Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn’t: The Beauty of Christian Theism (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2021).

Robert Covolo, “Arts,” in T&T Clark Handbook of Neo-Calvinism, ed. Nathaniel Gray Sutanto and Cory Brock, 1st ed. (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024), 487–97. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tt-clark-handbook-of-neocalvinism-9780567698094/

Robert Covolo, Fashion Theology (Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2020).

Hans Rookmaaker, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, Crossway print (Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Books, 1994).

Roger D. Henderson, The Artistic Sphere: The Arts in Neo-Calvinist Perspective, 1st ed (Westmont: InterVarsity Press, 2024).

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