[eBook] [PDF] For Theology and History in the Methodology of Herman Bavinck Revelation, Confession, and Christian Consciousness 1st Edition By Cameron Clausing

[eBook] [PDF] For Theology and History in the Methodology of Herman Bavinck Revelation, Confession, and Christian Consciousness 1st Edition By Cameron Clausing

Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) found himself between two eras. The end of the “long nineteenth century” and the experience of World War I marked how much the world around him had changed. This book examines Bavinck’s theological methodology with a particular focus on its influence by the German historicist movement. Author Cameron D. Clausing uses Bavinck’s doctrine of the Trinity to test the argument that while not embracing all of the relativizing implications of the movement, the role of history as a force that both shapes the present and allows for development into the future has a demonstrable influence on Bavinck’s theological methodology. To make this argument Clausing considers Bavinck’s larger nineteenth-century context. He traces the development of both history and theology being understood as sciences in the university and how this required a reimagining of both disciplines. It could be said that theology was thoroughly historicized in the nineteenth century.