Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics

1. Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.

   • Herman Bavinck (Christ the Center episode 37) Ron Gleason (Presbyterian Church in America), with Lane Keister, Jeff Waddington and Camden Bucey Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum
   • Bavinck on the Christian Life (Christ the Center episode 415) John Bolt (Calvin Theological Seminary, CRC; editor of the English Reformed Dogmatics), with Camden Bucey, Jim Cassidy, N. Gray Sutanto Open source Supplementary Reformed Forum Both are historians/editors in a denomination that now admits women to office (contrary to the historic reading of 1 Tim. 2-3 assumed by the Church Order of Dort and the Form of Church Government). Their items here are historical and editorial, not doctrinal instruction, and neither is known for teaching against the...
   • Bavinck's Philosophy of Revelation (Christ the Center episode 571) Cory Brock (Free Church of Scotland) and Nathaniel Gray Sutanto (Reformed Theological Seminary), with Camden Bucey and Dan Ragusa Open source Supplementary Reformed Forum
   • Bavinck and a Christian View of Science (Christ the Center 765) Cory C. Brock (assistant minister, St Columba's Free Church of Scotland; lecturer, Edinburgh Theological Seminary) with Camden Bucey and Ryan Noha Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum Reformed Forum pages state no church affiliation. To the reviewer's knowledge Waddington and Bucey are OPC ministers (American 1788 text); Ragusa's page links Messiah's Reformed Fellowship (New York); Sutanto's standing is not stated. he18 re-roled supplementary; ctc512 and ctc571 stay doctrinal because the topics...
   • Herman Bavinck's Trinitarian Theology and Organic Apologetic (Christ the Center 512) Dan Ragusa with Camden Bucey Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum Reformed Forum pages state no church affiliation. To the reviewer's knowledge Waddington and Bucey are OPC ministers (American 1788 text); Ragusa's page links Messiah's Reformed Fellowship (New York); Sutanto's standing is not stated. he18 re-roled supplementary; ctc512 and ctc571 stay doctrinal because the topics...
   • Bavinck's Philosophy of Revelation (Christ the Center 571) Cory Brock and Nathaniel Gray Sutanto with Camden Bucey and Dan Ragusa Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum Reformed Forum pages state no church affiliation. To the reviewer's knowledge Waddington and Bucey are OPC ministers (American 1788 text); Ragusa's page links Messiah's Reformed Fellowship (New York); Sutanto's standing is not stated. he18 re-roled supplementary; ctc512 and ctc571 stay doctrinal because the topics...
   • Bavinck's Christian Worldview (Christ the Center 622) James Eglinton, Nathaniel Gray Sutanto and Cory Brock, with Camden Bucey and Jim Cassidy Open source History Reformed Forum Reformed Forum pages state no church affiliation. To the reviewer's knowledge Waddington and Bucey are OPC ministers (American 1788 text); Ragusa's page links Messiah's Reformed Fellowship (New York); Sutanto's standing is not stated. he18 re-roled supplementary; ctc512 and ctc571 stay doctrinal because the topics...

2. Reading Read in the order given. Public-domain and free texts are linked; purchases are optional and never required.

   • Reformed Dogmatics, 4 vols. (English, Baker Academic 2003-2008) Herman Bavinck (ed. John Bolt, trans. John Vriend) vol. 1: 698 pp. Open source Supplementary 2003. Purchase (optional) Intramural. Dort I.7 and WCF 3 are written in infralapsarian terms but tolerate supralapsarians (Gomarus, Twisse, Rutherford); Bavinck and Turretin are infralapsarian. Present as a permitted difference within both confessions; no removal. The Brakel PDFs were released free by the translator according to the 2011...
   • Gereformeerde dogmatiek, Deel 1 (Dutch scan) Herman Bavinck scan file 28.72 MB Open source Primary text 1895. Public domain Intramural. Dort I.7 and WCF 3 are written in infralapsarian terms but tolerate supralapsarians (Gomarus, Twisse, Rutherford); Bavinck and Turretin are infralapsarian. Present as a permitted difference within both confessions; no removal. The Brakel PDFs were released free by the translator according to the 2011...
   • Magnalia Dei: onderwijzing in de christelijke religie naar Gereformeerde belijdenis Herman Bavinck Open source Primary text 1909. Public domain Intramural. Dort I.7 and WCF 3 are written in infralapsarian terms but tolerate supralapsarians (Gomarus, Twisse, Rutherford); Bavinck and Turretin are infralapsarian. Present as a permitted difference within both confessions; no removal. The Brakel PDFs were released free by the translator according to the 2011...
   • Gereformeerde Dogmatiek, Deel 1 (Prolegomena), Deel 2 (God), Deel 3 (Sin, Christ), Deel 4 (Holy Spirit, church, last things) Herman Bavinck Open source Primary text 1895-1901 (1st ed.). Public domain To the reviewer's knowledge Eglinton is a Church of Scotland minister, and the Church of Scotland does not require subscription to the 1647 Standards in the PRD's sense; the page does not state his standing. Re-roled from supplementary to history (the episode narrates the book and its translation). Not the sole...
   • Gereformeerde Dogmatiek, Eerste deel (Inleiding, Principia): Project Gutenberg text (ebook 51052) mirrored on archive.org Herman Bavinck Open source Primary text Public domain To the reviewer's knowledge Eglinton is a Church of Scotland minister, and the Church of Scotland does not require subscription to the 1647 Standards in the PRD's sense; the page does not state his standing. Re-roled from supplementary to history (the episode narrates the book and its translation). Not the sole...
   • Magnalia Dei: onderwijzing in de christelijke religie naar Gereformeerde belijdenis (1909) Herman Bavinck Open source Primary text 1909. Public domain To the reviewer's knowledge Eglinton is a Church of Scotland minister, and the Church of Scotland does not require subscription to the 1647 Standards in the PRD's sense; the page does not state his standing. Re-roled from supplementary to history (the episode narrates the book and its translation). Not the sole...
   • The Philosophy of Revelation (Stone Lectures, Princeton, 1908; Longmans 1909) Herman Bavinck Open source Primary text 1909. Public domain To the reviewer's knowledge Eglinton is a Church of Scotland minister, and the Church of Scotland does not require subscription to the 1647 Standards in the PRD's sense; the page does not state his standing. Re-roled from supplementary to history (the episode narrates the book and its translation). Not the sole...
   • The Sacrifice of Praise: Meditations before and after Receiving Access to the Table of the Lord (trans. John Dolfin, 1922) Herman Bavinck Open source Primary text 1922. Public domain To the reviewer's knowledge Eglinton is a Church of Scotland minister, and the Church of Scotland does not require subscription to the 1647 Standards in the PRD's sense; the page does not state his standing. Re-roled from supplementary to history (the episode narrates the book and its translation). Not the sole...
   • Christelijke wereldbeschouwing (rectorial address, 1904) Herman Bavinck Open source Primary text 1904. Public domain To the reviewer's knowledge Eglinton is a Church of Scotland minister, and the Church of Scotland does not require subscription to the 1647 Standards in the PRD's sense; the page does not state his standing. Re-roled from supplementary to history (the episode narrates the book and its translation). Not the sole...
   • Reformed Dogmatics, 4 vols. (ed. John Bolt, trans. John Vriend; Baker Academic 2003-2008) Herman Bavinck Open source Supplementary 2003-2008. Purchase (optional) To the reviewer's knowledge Eglinton is a Church of Scotland minister, and the Church of Scotland does not require subscription to the 1647 Standards in the PRD's sense; the page does not state his standing. Re-roled from supplementary to history (the episode narrates the book and its translation). Not the sole...

3. Assignment Write a research paper of 30 pages on a topic drawn from the lectures and readings of this course. Argue from Scripture, the Westminster Standards (1647 text) and the Three Forms of Unity, cite the primary sources you read, and state the points on which the sources differ.

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Every lecture and reading carries its role. "Under review" means the teacher's subscription to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms of Unity is not yet established; "Read as comparison" means the material teaches the 1788 American text of WCF 20.4, 23 or 31 or of Larger Catechism Q.109, which the school reads beside the 1647 text. Nothing has been removed.