“Theology has, since Kant's time, become a theology of consciousness and experience and thus loses itself in religious anthropology.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“All worldviews, therefore, end in an eschatology and all efforts at reformation are animated by faith in the future.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“But the electing love of God is at the same time a forgiving love. God not only elects and calls, but gives… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“205The segregation and the election of Israel served the sole purpose of maintaining, unmixed and unadulterated, continuing and perfecting, the original revelation,… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“God is above the world, and is also above sin and all evil. He allowed it because he could expiate it. So… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“250Christianity is no mere revelation of God in the past, but it is, in connection with the past, a work in the… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“everything we value in this life is inseparably connected with the future.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The absolute, immutable, and inviolable supremacy of that will of God is the light which special revelation holds before our soul's eye… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Christ is not the founder of Christianity, nor the first confessor of it, nor the first Christian. But he is Christianity itself, in its… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Man can as little make propitiation for his sin as he can forgive it himself. But God can do both, atone and forgive; he… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves . .… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“revelation always supposes that man is able to receive impressions or thoughts or inclinations from another than this phenomenal world, and in a way… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“the plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“science, which can make known only the interrelations of things, but never their origin, essence and end, will never be able to satisfy the… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The truth and value of Christianity do not depend on the fruits which it has borne for civilization and culture: it has its own… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“if sin bears an ethical character, then redemption is possible, and conversion is in principle the conquest of sin, the death of the old… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
