Today we sit down with Todd Hains, author of “Martin Luther and the Rule of Faith” (IVP), and learn that there is more to Luther than his emphasis on salvation by faith alone. How should we read the Bible? What lens should we have when reading the law? What guide...

In this interview we sit down with Richard Gaffin, author of “An Introduction to the Biblical Theology of Acts and Paul - In the Fullness of Time” (Crossway) where I pepper Dr Gaffin with every question under the sun in regards to neo-Calvinisim (and its drift to liberalism), Kuyper &...

There has been a recent surge in interest in neo-Calvinism – not least in the works of two of the fathers of neo-Calvinism Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) and Herman Bavinck (1854-1921). This is due, in part, to the recent English translations of their works. The translators are often unknown heroes. This...

"Modernism, which denies and abolishes every difference, cannot rest until it has made woman man and man woman, and, putting every distinction on a common level, kills life by placing it under the ban of uniformity. One type must answer for all, one uniform, one position and one and the...

I thought it appropriate to offer a synthesis of what the Neo-Calvinist Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck argues about collisions of duties (most often called moral dilemmas or conflicts of moral absolutes). The purpose here is not to offer a position, but to offer the approach of an influential theologian to...

Today we sit down with Greg Parker Jr., editor and translator of the recently released book from Herman Bavinck called “What is Christianity?” and get awesome.

"The Cultural Mandate" - who said it first? Of course the idea was in there in both Kuyper and Bavinck, but who coined, and helped further nuance, it? Indeed you know and love/hate Kuyper, you are familiar with Bavinck, and you glean from Vos and Berkouwer... but who is Klaas Schilder (1890 -...

“These themes of perfection, union with Christ, and the necessity of the incarnation point to the fact that Bavinck’s theology is profoundly ripe for the incorporation of the summative theme of theosis. This is the notion that humanity is meant to be united to and participate in the trinitarian life...

This historical reality begs the question: was there a relationship between Kuyper’s public activity and his practice of personal piety?  And more generally, is there a link between Christian public life and Christian spirituality?  Concerning the former, Kuyper developed a robust public theology, which argued biblically that it was a...

I thought “I should wipe this pee off. If I was in the garden, or the new heavens and new earth, there would be no pee on the toilet seat. I wasn’t created to pee on the seat nor were people created to have to sit on my pee.” And...