Confused about all this molinism/middle-knowledge stuff? Below is the best summary of the theory of middle-knowledge that I’ve come across yet. If you don’t have much time, just read the bold. But the Jesuits, entering the discussion, brought change. …Though in fact opposed by the Thomists and Augustinians (e.g., by Bannez, the Salmanticenses [Carmelites of [...]

Today, Neo-Calvinists seem to be infatuated with combining Darwinism/common descent with Christianity. The problem, of course, is that the founders of Neo-Calvinism – Herman Bavinck and Abraham Kuyper, perhaps the two greatest systematic theologians since John Calvin – abhorred the idea of theistic evolution and the idea that human beings descended from animals. Herman Bavinck, [...]

If in the area of history [the apostles and prophets] write ‘in accordance with appearance,’ that certainly has to mean not in accordance with what happened objectively but in accordance with what many in their day believed subjectively. In that case they give us a false impression and are therefore being compromised in their authority [...]

Ever get caught up in the age-old discussion of the place of “faith and reason”? Need some direction, or just want the best of the best? I got your goods right here. Our Reasonable Faith by Herman Bavinck – This is simply the most eloquent one volume systematic theology ever written. Written in 1909, Bavinck [...]

Time to get back to McGowan… Theses Without Clarity I shall argue in this chapter that there is an older and better way to defend a ‘high’ view of Scripture: the ‘infallibilist’ view. I shall argue that this is a stronger, more sustainable and, above all, more biblical view of Scripture than the inerrantist view. [...]

Bavinck and Reformed Theology Like John Calvin, Herman Bavinck is one of the greatest theologians who has ever lived. And just as some scholars like to re-write history and assert things about Calvin that aren’t true, so it is with unintentionally and sometimes intentionally misinterpreting Herman Bavinck. Granted, Calvin was much more influential in terms [...]

Inerrancy and The Reformed Faith of Today and Yesterday Many semi-liberal, Reformed thinkers who are anti-conservative-evangelical  (i.e. Dordt College profs, Calvin College profs, Thinknet, Roy Clouser and his cronies, etc.) have often tried to separate Old Princeton’s rigorous work on the doctrine of inspiration from Neo-Calvinists’ (Bavinck and Kuyper) doctrine of Scripture. That is, they [...]