Christian Worldview

By Herman Bavinck, N. Gray Sutanto (translator), James Eglinton (translator) , Cory C. Brock (translator)

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Herman Bavinck's Christian Worldview, originally written in response to the challenges of modernity, compellingly explores and explains why only a Christian worldview can offer solutions to our deepest needs.

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John G. Stackhouse Jr.

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Bavinck was a Dutch theologian and philosopher writing a hundred years ago. Even then, it was an impressive accomplishment to keep up with the literature in both fields and in the major European languages.

This book shows that Bavinck did that and more. Politics, ethics, social science, even natural science—nothing seems to have escaped his vision. His synthesis of what a world-and-life-view (as he preferred to call it) from a Christian perspective continues to stand as a mark of wholistic and synthetic thinking unexcelled in the century since. Indeed, this book is an excellent place to start as a Bavinck…

From John's 3 favorite reads in 2023.