Quote by Herman Bavinck Download Open image ““Theology leads through soteriology to eschatology.”” — Herman Bavinck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“All worldviews, therefore, end in an eschatology and all efforts at reformation are animated by faith in the future.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth, breadth, and erudition. Harper… — Carl E. Olson Copy Share Image
“Theology is a discipline that is at once oriented to the transcendent and thoroughly located in a particular time and place. It arises out… — Christine Helmer Copy Share Image
“Eschatology is the dustbin into which we sweep everything we don't want. To believe. We believe that the Lord will manifest Himself to men,… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the subject of our study.” — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“When theology is fixated on the task of clarifying topics as categories, theology becomes esoteric and disconnected from the lived experience where Christian faith… — Frederick L. Ware Copy Share Image
“Theology is something that is learned, lived, sung, preached, and renewed through the dynamic interaction between God and his people.” — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“The motif of scholastic theology is, “We believe to understand.” The motif in mystical theology is, “We believe to experience.” — Eric Gimour 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