Herman Bavinck

Mystery is the lifeblood of dogmatics.

— Herman Bavinck

God saves by causing himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ.

— Herman Bavinck

“Philosophy arose out of religion,”

— Herman Bavinck

“Conversion is the sole and the absolutely peculiar way to heaven.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Theology leads through soteriology to eschatology.”

— Herman Bavinck

“311eschatology lives in the heart of all.”

— Herman Bavinck

“conversion is a necessary and moral duty for every man.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Christian religion cannot abandon this supernaturalism without annihilating itself.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Metaphysics, the belief in the absolute as a holy power, always forms the foundation of ethics.”

— Herman Bavinck

The gospel is the food of faith... God saves by causing Himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ.

— Herman Bavinck

“Theology has, since Kant's time, become a theology of consciousness and experience and thus loses itself in religious anthropology.”

— Herman Bavinck

“If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Evolution is dismissive of the eternity of moral duty and moral laws.”

— Herman Bavinck

“The cross is the divine settlement with the divine condemnation of sin.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.”

— Herman Bavinck

The essence of Christianity consists therein: that the creation of the Father, destroyed by sin, is again restored in the death of…

— Herman Bavinck

“there is great danger that modern culture, progressing in its anti-supernaturalistic course, will be stirred against the steadfastness of believers and attempt…

— Herman Bavinck

“revelation always supposes that man is able to receive impressions or thoughts or inclinations from another than this phenomenal world, and in…

— Herman Bavinck

“if sin bears an ethical character, then redemption is possible, and conversion is in principle the conquest of sin, the death of…

— Herman Bavinck

“one thread runs through the history of mankind, namely, the operation of the sovereign, merciful, and almighty will of God, to save…

— Herman Bavinck

We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in…

— Herman Bavinck

“In the same way, any ethical system which aspires to be true ethics and to bear a normative and teleological character, not…

— Herman Bavinck

“conversion means a religious and moral change in man, by which he gives up his sinful ways and learns to know, love,…

— Herman Bavinck

The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then,…

— Herman Bavinck

“The doctrine of evolution thus takes the place of the old religion in the modern man.320It is no science; it does not…

— Herman Bavinck

“God does not say that He will be our God if we do this or that thing. But He says that He…

— Herman Bavinck

“205The segregation and the election of Israel served the sole purpose of maintaining, unmixed and unadulterated, continuing and perfecting, the original revelation,…

— Herman Bavinck

It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity…

— Herman Bavinck

“Thus the true, the good and the beautiful which ethical culture seeks can only come to perfection when the absolute good is…

— Herman Bavinck

A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To…

— Herman Bavinck

In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this…

— Herman Bavinck

“For it is not we who call God by these names. We do not invent them. On the contrary, if it depended…

— Herman Bavinck

“Race instinct, sense of nationality, enmity, and hatred, these are divisive forces between peoples. This is an astonishing punishment and a terrible…

— Herman Bavinck

“Manifest in this trade (commercial sale of indulgences via bankers) at the same time was a pernicious tendency in the Roman Catholic…

— Herman Bavinck

“The Gospel is sheer good tidings, not demand but promise, not duty but gift. But in order that as promise and gift…

— Herman Bavinck

“Beneath the head lies the heart, out of which are the issues of life.”

— Herman Bavinck

“faith, which forms its positive side is at the same time cognitio and fiducia, a trustful knowledge and a knowing trust.”

— Herman Bavinck

Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.

— Herman Bavinck

“Culture, therefore, sinks into the background; man must first become a son of God before he can be, in a genuine sense,…

— Herman Bavinck

“This will of God forms the heart of pure religion and at the same time the soul of all true theology.”

— Herman Bavinck