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Friday, 19 August 2022

Doctoral Theses on Herman Bavinck

 Recent years have seen an increase in interest in the work of Herman Bavinck. One indicator of this is the number of doctoral theses written on Bavinck. 





Jaarsma, Cornelius R.     1935            The Educational Philosophy of Herman Bavinck. Published by Eerdmans, 1935.
Hoekema, A. A.         1953     Bavinck’s Doctrine of the Covenant. Princeton Theological Seminary.
Kruithof, B                 1955     Relaxation of Christianity and culture in the teaching of Herman Bavinck. University of Edinburgh.
Heideman, Eugene. 1959     The Relation of Revelation and Reason: E. Brunner and H. Bavinck. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1959. 
Bolt, John.                 1982     The Imitation of Christ Theme in the Cultural-Ethical Ideal of Herman Bavinck. Published as A Theological Analysis of Herman Bavinck’s Two Essays on the Imitatio Christi. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013. 
Heilema, Syd.          1998     Herman Bavinck’s Eschatological Understanding of Redemption. Toronto School of Theology. 
Gleason, Ron                 2001     The Centrality of the Unio Mystica in the Theology of Herman Bavinck. Westminster Theological Seminary.
Van den Belt, Henk 2006     The Authority of Scripture in Reformed Theology: Truth and Trust. Studies in Reformed Theology. University of Leiden. Published by Brill, 2008.
Hans Burger,                 2008     Being in Christ: A biblical and systematic investigation in a reformed perspective. Published by Wipf & Stock
Mattson, Brian.         2008     Restored to Our Destiny: Eschatology & the Image of God in Herman Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics. University of Aberdeen. Published by Brill, 2011. 
Eglinton, James.         2010     Trinity and Organism: Towards a New Reading of Herman Bavinck's Organic Motif. The University of Edinburgh. Published by Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2012. 
De Wit, Willem J.         2011     On the Way to the Living God: A Cathartic Reading of Herman Bavinck and An Invitation to Overcome the Plausibility Crisis of Christianity. Amsterdam: VU University.
Price, Timothy S.         2013     Pedagogy as Theological Praxis : Martin Luther and Herman Bavinck as sources for engagement with classical education and the liberal arts tradition.  University of Aberdeen.
Huttinga, Wolter          2014     Participation and Communicability: Herman Bavinck and John Milbank on the Relation Between God and the World. Amsterdam: Buijten en Schipperheijn Motief.
Chiew, S. S.                2015 You Know It Completely: The Concept of Middle Knowledge and Biblical Interpretation in Luis de Molina, Herman Bavinck, and William Lane Craig. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Park, Jae-Eun                 2016.        Driven By God: Active Justification and Definitive Sanctification in the Soteriology of Bavinck, Comrie, Witsius, and Kuyper. Calvin Theological Seminary. Published by V&R, 2018.
Brock, Cory.                 2018     Orthodox yet Modern: Herman Bavinck’s Use of Friedrich Schleiermacher. The University of Edinburgh. Published by WA: Lexham, 2020. 
Sutanto, N. Gray         2018     Organic Knowing: The Theological Epistemology of Herman Bavinck.  dissertation, The University of Edinburgh. Published by T&T Clark, 2020.
Bintsarovskyi, Dmytro 2019     God Hidden and Revealed: A Reformed and an Eastern Orthodox Perspective. Published by Lexham Press, 2021
Joustra, Jessica         2019     Following the Way of Jesus: Herman Bavinck and John Howard Yoder in Dialogue on the Imitation of Christ. Fuller Theological Seminary. 
Pass, Bruce                  2019     ‘The Heart of Dogmatics’: The Place and Purpose of Christology in the Theological Method of Herman Bavinck. The University of Edinburgh. Published by Bril.
Tae, Dong-Yaul.             2019          Human Freedom and the invisible Church From the Viewpoint of Bavinck's Pneumatology. Calvin Theological Seminary.
Doornbos, Gayle            2019          Herman Bavinck’s Trinitarian Theology: The Ontological, Cosmological, and Soteriological Dimensions of the Doctrine of the Trinity. University of St Michael's College, Toronto.
Ximian Xu                 2020     Theology as the Wetenschap of God: Herman Bavinck's scientific theology for the modern world. The University of Edinburgh.
Changjun Choi         2021     Herman Bavinck and John Calvin on The Doctrines of the Trinity and the Image Of God: A Comparison. Theologische Universiteit Apeldoorn.
Clausing, Cameron 2021     ‘Christian dogmatic does not yet exist': the influence of the nineteenth century Historical Turn on the theological methodology of Herman Bavinck. University of Edinburgh. 
Kim, Eundeuk               2021          Herman Bavinck as a public theologian Calvin Theological Seminary.
Bertrand Rickenbacher 2021 Towards a Realist Conception of Theology: An Argument Based on the Works of Bavinck and Plantinga VU Amsterdam.
Parker, Gregory Jr.         2022     Theological Thinking and Loving: Dogmatics and Ethics in the Theology of Herman Bavinck. University of Edinburgh.
Schrock, Daniel.   2022. “The Internal Word Is the Principal Word:” the Work of the Spirit in Herman Bavinck’s Theological Epistemology Westminster Theological Seminary PhD Thesis.

Updates

Torseth, Robb. 2023.“Word-to-Word: A Constructive Account of Speech between God and Humanity in the Theologies of Herman Bavinck and John Webster,” August 8, 2023. University of Edinburgh. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/3608.

Leiva, Guerrero, and Israel José. 2023. “Piety in the Theology of Herman Bavinck: Trinitarian, Covenantal and Holistic,” December 1, 2023. University of Edinburgh. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/3986.


Other language theses include:



Bremmer, R. H.        1961              Herman Bavinck en zijn tijdgenoten. Kampen
Veenhof, Jan       1968  Revelatie en Inspiratie: De Openbarings- en Schriftbeschouwing van Herman Bavinck in vergelijking met die der ethische theologie. Amsterdam: Buijten & Schipperheijn.
van Keulen, Dirk         2003. Bijbel en dogmatiek. Schriftleer en schriftgebruik bij A. Kuyper, H. Bavinck en G.C. Berkouwer. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Strebel, Henniel  2014. Eine Theologie des Lernens: Systematisch-theologische Beiträge aus dem Werk von Herman Bavinck [A theology of learning: systematic-theological contributions from the work of Herman Bavinck] (Bonn: VKW, 2014).
Goedvree, A.                 2018     Een ondoordringbaar mysteries: wedergeboorte volgens Herman Bavinck. Protestantse Theologische Universiteit.



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