Status Updates From Our Reasonable Faith: A Sur...

I finally started the Wonderful Works. I read the introduction, preface, and first chapter, and it has proven to me how theologically rich this book will be to read. It’s already evident to me how Bavinck writes with compelling erudition. In the first chapter on “Man’s Highest Good”, he ends the section by stating: “Man is an enigma whose solution can be found only in God”. What a start!

"The function of the confessions or Creeds is not to push the scriptures into the background, but rather to maintain them and to protect them against individual caprice."

"The confessions do not impede the growth and knowledge but keep it in the right course of development, and they are themselves to be checked and revised against the holy scriptures as the only norm of faith."

I think he plagiarized Barcellos: "for every translation, after all, is really a kind of interpretation."

Chap. 5 contains Bavincks view of Covenant Theology. Wrestling with his statement that the OT and NT is not law and gospel but promise and fulfillment.