Grace in Common

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

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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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In this episode, Cory and James continue a series reviewing Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism. This week, they continue discussing Lecture 4 on Calvinism and Science.

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).

Timothy Keller, Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical (New York, New York: Viking, 2016).

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In this episode, Cory, James, and Gray discuss some of the research projects they are working on, including rethinking the Christian history of languages, the doctrines of sin and demons in the Reformed Tradition, the principles of Reformed retrieval, preaching, and worldview vs. wisdom.

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/

Sources mentioned in this episode:

Herman Bavinck, Christian Worldview, ed. Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, Cory C. Brock, and James Perman Eglinton (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2019).

Herman Bavinck, “Foreword to the First Edition (Volume 1) of the Gereformeerde Dogmatiek,” trans. John Bolt, Calvin Theological Journal 45, no. 1 (2010): 9-10.

J. H. Bavinck, Personality and Worldview, ed. James Perman Eglinton (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2023).

Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Mere Christian Hermeneutics: Transfiguring What It Means to Read the Bible Theologically (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Academic, 2024).

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

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In this conversation, Cory, James, and Marinus are all in Edinburgh to discuss the theology of history in the work of Klaas Schilder.

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s7e7

In this episode, Marinus, Cory, and James continue a series discussing Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism. This week they discuss Lecture 4 on Calvinism and Science.

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).

Seb Falk, The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery (London: Penguin Books, 2021).

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In this episode, Marinus, Gray, and James continue a series discussing Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism. This week they continue their discussion of Lecture 3 on Calvinism, Politics, and the Church.

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).

Abraham Kuyper and James D. Bratt, Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader (Grand Rapids, Mich. : Carlisle: W.B. Eerdmans ; Paternoster Press, 1998).

Jessica Renee Joustra and Robert Joustra, eds., Calvinism for a Secular Age: A Twenty-First-Century Reading of Abraham Kuyper’s Stone Lectures (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2021).

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In this episode, Gray and James discuss medieval theology, the different assessments of it between the US and the UK, and how they have used it in their current research.

Sources mentioned in this episode:

Seb Falk, The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery (London: Penguin Books, 2021).

Herman Bavinck, Essays on Religion, Science, and Society, ed. John Bolt, trans. Harry Boonstra and Gerrit Sheeres (Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Academic, 2008).

Johannes Bonaventura and Dominic Monti, “Works of Saint Bonaventure. 9: Breviloquium / Introd., Transl. and Notes by Dominic V. Monti” (Saint Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publ, 2005).

Richard Cross, Communicatio Idiomatum: Reformation Christological Debates, Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology (Oxford New York (N.Y.): Oxford University Press, 2019).

Scott M. Williams, The Trinity, Cambridge Elements. Elements in the Problems of God (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009293105.

N. Gray Sutanto, “Gevoel and Illumination: Bavinck, Augustine, and Bonaventure on Awareness of God,” Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology 30, no. 3 (August 2021): 265–78, https://doi.org/10.1177/10638512211016240.

Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, “Questioning Bonaventure’s Augustinianism?: On the Noetic Effects of Sin,” New Blackfriars 102, no. 1099 (May 2021): 401–17, https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12537.

Michael D. Hurley, Angels and Monotheism, 1st ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2024), https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009374644.

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In this episode, Gray, Cory, and James continue a series discussing Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism. This week they discuss lecture 3 on Calvinism and Politics focusing on the topic of the state.

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).

Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace (Volume 3): God’s Gifts for a Fallen World, 1st ed, Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology Series (Bellingham: Faithlife Corporation, 2020).

H. M. Kuitert, Everything Is Politics but Politics Is Not Everything: A Theological Perspective on Faith and Politics (Grand Rapids, Mich: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co, 1986).

Luke Bretherton, Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019).

Matthew Kaemingk, Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2018).

David T. Koyzis, Citizenship Without Illusions: A Christian Guide to Political Engagement, 1st ed (Westmont: InterVarsity Press, 2024).

Jonathan Chaplin, Faith in Democracy: Framing a Politics of Deep Diversity (La Vergne: Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd, 2021).

David Brooks Awarded 2020 Kuyper Prize, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6iCz8w90x4.

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