Tag Archives: neo calvinism

Review: An Everlasting Covenant (Kamphuis)

Posted on September 23, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Kamphuis, J. An Everlasting Covenant. Launceston, Australia: Publication Organization of the Free Reformed Churches of Australia, 1985. This summarizes the fallout between the true, Schilderite take on theology, and the post-Kuyperian subjectivism.  It differs from other defenses of Schilder, however, in … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Word of God and the Mind of Man (Nash)

Posted on June 21, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Nash, Ronald.  The Word of God and the Mind of Man. Zondervan: 1982. Reprint by Presbyterian and Reformed. The possibility of our having cognitive knowledge about God was denied on three grounds:  God is too transcendent; 2) human knowledge is de … Continue reading →

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Review: Vanderwaal, Job-Song of Songs

Posted on March 26, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

I’m normally skeptical of Bible surveys and introductions. You can find the book online. They usually never get beyond surface level and are written with the grace of a dictionary. Fortunately, Cornelis Vanderwaal’s material isn’t that. He gets to the point but … Continue reading →

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Notes on Schilder’s Christ and Culture

Posted on July 14, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

by Klaas Schilder, 1890-1952. Translation of Christus en Cultuur ISBN 0-88756-008-3 The numbers represent the sections in the book. (2) The Christian must engage culture because we are prophet, priest, king. It is our task. (3a) Part of our difficulty … Continue reading →

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Review: Berkouwer’s Half Century Theology

Posted on July 13, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

This is partly GC Berkouwer’s theological autobiography.  Rather than giving an analytical review, I’ll post my observations: The book is heavily influenced by Bavinck.  This is significant.  Bavinck’s stature had a kind of stabilizing influence among those otherwise influenced by … Continue reading →

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Common Grace and the Gospel (review)

Posted on July 6, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

The Christian Philosophy of History Metaphysically, we have all things in common with the unregenerate.  Epistemologically, we do not. Universals of non-Christian thought are ultimately non-personalist. For the Reformed Christian God’s counsel is the principle of individuation. Paradox God’s being … Continue reading →

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Notes on Berkouwer’s anthropology

Posted on July 4, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

From his Man: The Image of God On the broader/narrower distinction: man, despite his fall, was not beastialized (38).  By narrower man lost his communion with God. the broader sense reminds us of what was not lost in the fall. … Continue reading →

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Bavinck: Philosophy of Revelation

Posted on July 2, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

Bavinck argues that a monistic account of the world cannot ground unity or diversity. By contrast, the Christian revelation can account for a unity and a diversity that is not located within the phenomenal realm. Bavinck traces the idea of … Continue reading →

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Going Dutch (book review)

Posted on July 1, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

In explaining how the Dutch Reformed could exist in a largely secular yet still national church society, Abraham Kuyper was forced anew to wrestle with the meaning of church government and baptism.  John Halsey Wood Jr. gives not only a … Continue reading →

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Abraham Kuyper: A Personal Introduction (review)

Posted on October 25, 2016 by J. B. Aitken

As far as introductions to neo-Calvinism go, this is the most lucid. Prof Mouw goes beyond the standard “take every square inch” models of Neo-Calvinism and asks us to reflect on what it means to be created for many-ness. His … Continue reading →

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